Establishing and maintaining collaborative dialogue with faculty across disciplines.
Self-reflecting on educational achievements.
Increasing confidence and competence in applying academic and social literacies.
Faculty will demonstrate agency by:
Establishing and maintaining collaborative dialogue with first-generation, multicultural, low-income, and other underrepresented students.
Increasing their understanding of the relationship between pedagogy and retention, informed by research on underrepresented students.
Applying this critical research to curriculum design.
Program administrators will promote agency by:
Establishing and maintaining opportunities for collaborative partnerships between representatives of the Office of the Provost and the Division of Student Affairs.
Designing and implementing research-based professional development opportunities that explore the connection between institutional culture and student retention.
Creating avenues of recognition for faculty, staff and departments who adopt practices that recognize the critical relation between the institution and the student.
