Even before the pandemic, colleges and universities increasingly tasked department chairs with increasing enrollment and working toward the retention of students who were already at their institutions. Chairs have always scheduled classes and managed faculty: What else was there to do? A lot, it turns out.
Watch this 75-minute session to explore how and why department chairs should recruit students and put in place systems that support them to remain enrolled and on track, and to complete their degrees.
What you will learn:
- Strategies to lead departments to student-friendly curriculum and scheduling
- Ways to create a departmental culture and shared practices supporting student success among faculty, staff, and the students themselves
- Opportunities to leverage campus resources to help departments take care of their communities of students, staff, and faculty
Panelist:
- Allison Calhoun-Brown, Senior Vice President for Student Success, Georgia State University
Moderator:
- Roopika Risam, Chair of Secondary and Higher Education and Associate Professor of Education and English at Salem State University
