About This Role
This role focuses on supporting undergraduate student success to improve retention, persistence, and graduation rates. It involves providing academic advising and coordinating student success initiatives like the First Year Foundation course and summer orientations. The coordinator will collaborate with the Student Success Team and communicate with faculty regarding academic concerns.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Student Success Coordinators to facilitate student success programs
- Serve as advisor to students and assist with course registration, academic progress, and overall student success
- Establish plans of action to address negative attrition/retention patterns with the assigned targeted student population
- Prepare and present retention updates and reports for assigned student population
- Identify and develop student success indicators for purposes of monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on student academic progress, persistence, attrition/retention and graduation rates
- Maintain advising data and contact students in jeopardy of withdrawing or failing school
- Provide individual and group Student Success Skills sessions/workshops as needed
- Communicate with students on a regular basis to facilitate retention activities through in-person, telephone, mail, virtual meetings, and/or e-mail
- Collaborate with other campus departments as needed to support student success
- Publicize and disseminate student support materials to students
- Participate in various departmental, campus, and college initiatives related to retention and student success, including outreach events
- Build and maintain an awareness of current trends and best practices in retention and student success areas and integrate such knowledge into campus programs and services
- Coordinate assessment of all program areas of responsibility
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned
Requirements
- Character and personality to relate effectively with faculty, staff, students, and the community
- Master’s degree or at least 18 hours of graduate work completed
- 2 years of experience in student advising, recruitment, retention, or other related student services areas
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Understanding of college programs and procedures regarding advisement, registration, and financial aid is desirable
About the Company
Cumberlands is an institution that encourages intellectual and spiritual growth, leadership, and service among its students.
