From Mission Statement to Evaluation: Improving the Odds for Student and Advisor Success

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From Mission Statement to Evaluation Improving
the Odds for Student and Advisor Success

• Tim Champardé, M.S.
• Faculty Advisor and Life Coach
• Lansing Community College
• tim_champarde_at_lcc.edu
• Code 691

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Whats in a Name?

• The power of a good metaphor
• e.g., advising as coaching
• Education as journey
• Student as driver
• Advisor as navigator

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Once upon a time

• on a campus not so far away

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LCCs Advising CenterMission Statement

• OurStar Advising mission is to offer students
  assistance in clarifying Goals, harnessing the
  Power of information, and developing Strategies
  to realize personal, academic, and professional
  expectations.
• (see http//www.franklincovey.com/missionbuilder
  /)

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Definition of Advising

• Like teaching, advising is a process of
• communication involving the exchange of
• knowledge and ideas that supports a three-
• part dynamic of learning
• clarifying attainable Goals,
• fostering Power that results from the
  harnessing of accurate information, and
• creating effective Strategies to realize
  personal, academic, and career expectations.
• Tim A. Champardé, M.S.

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Educational Philosophy

• Prescriptive
• Developmental
• Intrusive
• Conservative/Liberal

GPS Advising is meant to be politically neutral!
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Anatomy of an Advising Session

• Goals
• Information Power
• Strategies

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Anatomy of an Advising Session

• Goals
• Career
• Academic
• Skills
• Personal
• Range

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Anatomy of an Advising Session

• Information Power
• Catalog
• Transfer Guides
• Library
• Internet
• Experts

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Anatomy of an Advising Session

• Strategies
• Pace/Time Mgmt
• Financing
• Compare
• Coach/Advisor

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At LCC, GPS Advising means helping you see ?
where you are ? where youre going ? how to get
there
Goals Career Academic Skills Personal Range
P o w e r /Information Catalog Transfer
Guide Library Internet Experts

Strategies Pace/Time Mgmt Financing Compare Coac
h/Advisor
OurStar Advising mission is to offer students
assistance in clarifying goals, harnessing the
power of information, and developing strategies
to realize personal, academic, and career
expectations.
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Tools for the Quest

• Questions encourage student participation (cf.,
  Socratic method)
• Student Advising Worksheet (requires student
  preparation)
• Advising Guide (e.g., pre-nursing)
• Group Advising (aka, Advising Seminars)

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Realities of Advising More with Less

• Our numbers in nursing
• 2005
• 2,000 applicants
• 1,500 not qualified
• 160 regular seats

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Realities of Advising More with Less

• The Seminars (7/18 to 9/19)
• 324 attendees
• 13 seminars
• 25 hours
• 2 advisors
• avg. 7 students per hour/advisor

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Pre-Test Results
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Pre-Test Results
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Future Evaluation
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Evaluation of Services

• Student evaluation of advisor
• Advisor evaluation of student
• Evaluation mechanisms in division or college
• Pre-test post-test evaluation of learning

• Mission Accomplished
• vs.
• Mission Impossible?

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Back to the Future

• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not
  intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his
  intuition lead him where it wants. A good
  scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps
  his mind open to what is.
• Lao-tzu, as quoted in Leading With Soul, by Lee
  G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal