Advising Updates Advisor Caseloads CLASS advisor caseloads for the 2012-2013 academic year averaged between 850 to 950 advisees. This takes into consideration the extraction of the remedial freshmen assigned to the student success specialists. This total includs the percentage of students who came to the Center as pre-advising students (non-matriculated), which is 8% of total appointments. With the new 2013-2014 initiative to extract all freshmen advisees from CLASS, advising caseloads for the 2013-2014 year will average between 810-910 advisees per advisor. CLASS advisors are assigned caseloads by major. Although major advising is done by a faculty advisor and general education advising is done by the CLASS professional advisor, caseload assignments allow CLASS advisors to act as the liaison to their assigned departments. This assists in the communication between the Advising Center and the various CLASS schools/ departments/programs.
Daily Walk-ins at the Center Daily walk-in advising continued this year offering 31.5 hours in the fall semester, and 28 hours in the spring. Times offered were modified in fall in relation to student usage the previous year. The Center now has two advisors available for the heavily used Thursday and Friday afternoons.
Strategic Retention and Graduation Work continues on the first-time, full-time student retention and graduation rates. The final graduation rate for the 2006 cohort, with a summer 2012 cut-off for IPEDS reporting, has been confirmed: CLASS graduated 44.8% of this cohort, exceeding the University target of 32%. The 2007 cohort, with final numbers to be confirmed at the end of summer semester 2013, has a University graduation goal set at 34%. Currently the CLASS percentage has met and exceeded the goal with a 37.6% graduation rate. The 2008 University goal is a 36% completion rate by the end of summer 2014. CLASS currently has a 30% rate, with projections for meeting and possibly exceeding the University goal. CLASS advising continues to work on active cohorts and has begun assessing and completing outreach to the 2009 cohort.
Current Caseloads Rose Begalla: Black Studies, English, French, Religious Studies, Social Work (last names L-Z), and Spanish Jennifer Novy: Communication, Communication Management, Film and Digital Media, and Journalism and Promotional Communication Michele Lieberth: Anthropology, Economics, International Relations, Linguistic Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Social Work (last names A-K), Social Science, Theatre Arts, and Women’s Studies Lacie Semenovich: Criminology, Sociology, and Undecided Stephanie Triplett: Art, Classical and Medieval Studies, History, Liberal Studies, Music, and Social Studies
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