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Early Alerts Program Updates

Project Status: Monitor/Assess

The Early Alerts workgroup is focused on increasing faculty participation in Early Alerts. The workgroup is focusing on how to close the loop with faculty each term, and how to best provide quarterly status reports. Additional work is being done to make Early Alerts data accessible so that it can be shared more regularly. The workgroup hopes to use information gathered from faculty outreach to provide a proposal by the end of the year that outlines the essential components for a sustainable Early Alerts program at PSU.

Accomplished

  • Link to Navigate was embedded in faculty canvas menus.
  • Updated the alert reasons, and sent campaigns from the Learning Center.
  • Summarized findings from Winter/Spring 2023 Faculty visits into a slide presentation for additional discovery of improvement areas.
  • New leadership and roles assigned
  • Fall 2023 participation:
    • 27% of undergraduate courses participated (656 out of 2,399 CRNs); a six percentage point increase in participation compared to Fall term averages
    • 9,200+ progress reports were issued from 450+ instructors
    • Over 6,400 undergraduate students were assessed as part of Early Alerts
      • Just under 11 percent of undergraduate students were at risk in one or more of their courses

In Progress

  • Completion of Winter 2024 alerts and initial analysis.
  • Mechanism to close the loop with faculty: Sending an end-of-term message to faculty that provides a link to run their Progress Report list where they can follow up on actions taken in their students' cases.
  • Working with NAV liaison to find a way to integrate progress reports to remove duplicated work for faculty.
  • Creating a systematic approach for acquiring engagement data and reporting it to faculty and staff.
     

Project Team

Sponsor: Erica Wagner
Project Leads: Radhika Reddy and Kate Constable
Project Coordinator: Rianna Piatt
Team: Radhika Reddy, Cori Watkins, Nathaniel Garrod, Rowanna Carpenter, Rachel Webb,  Shoshana Zeisman-Pereyo, Beth Harris
Collaborators: Advising and Career Services