Jada White 

Annotated bibliography 

W231- Business Writing 

February 22, 2022

Diving into College Advising to Better Understand Graduation Rates 

 

Basaraba, M. (2019, August 7). In how colleges are fixing the problem of students

not graduating on time. Retrieved from https://www.prepler.com/blog/how-colleges-are-fixing-the-problem-of-students-not-graduating-on-time

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WWW Graduation rate for students in a four-year college program is only about fifty percent. In the research it is clear that this graduation rate is causing students to have to study longer. The relevant reason is not having the proper classes, nor the proper resources. It’s found that in many cases colleges don't have enough space in certain classes for specific majors. When students are unable to take classes that are needed, they tend to lean on classes that aren’t of importance to their major. Due to filled classes this starts a cycle that puts the students in delay, once in delay this will eventually impact future students that need to take said classes as well. To fix the cycle it’s recommended that the students and the faculty of college’s keep track of all students' credits, to be sure that everyone is on track. A second recommendation was to have students plan out their four-year experience before even starting at their specific school and to compare it to major maps given by the school, so if conflict were to arris’s with classes there are already back up, prepared for one’s specific major. 

Jacobson, L. S. (2017). Improving college and career outcomes of low performing

high school students. Washington: The Brookings Institution. Retrieved from http://ulib.iupui.edu/cgi-bin/proxy.pl?url=http://search.proquest.com/other-sources/improving-college-career-outcomes-low-performing/docview/1902434696/se-2?accountid=7398

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WWW Career Outcome for low-performing high school students was studied upon when Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was enacted. The ESSA focused on giving students a better understanding and opportunity to learn about post-secondary schooling. It was found that many students did not thrive in post-secondary education, and it was believed to be because high schools did not have school Engagement surrounded with secondary school in mind. This research was based on a similar study done in Florida called the Florida College and Career Readiness initiative. It is believed that Enlistment of outside groups of students mentoring would increase post-secondary school readiness, on top of postsecondary planning as well. It was found that using said plan methods and outside mentoring groups, that would increase education and career readiness, as well as networking.
 

Tetens, S., Southwick, A., Bellardo, J., Adamczak, D., & Magnuson, K. (2016, 02).

Under advisement: Learning quality through experience while improving the student academic experience. Quality Progress, 49, 36-43. Retrieved from http://ulib.iupui.edu/cgi-bin/proxy.pl?url=http://search.proquest.com/magazines/under-advisement-learning-quality-through/docview/1769410687/se-2?accountid=7398

 

WWW The advisement at New York University didn’t meet the expectations for many enrolled students. A 15-week study was done by 6 different students, and a process of defining, measuring, analyzing, improving, and control was used to better understand why this was true. The first-time undergrad student rate (59%) was looked at compared to their graduating rate after about 6 years, and this dropped dramatically. (49% of the students did not complete said bachelor's degree) With defining, measuring, analyzing, improving, and control, it was understood that many advisors/ faculty indicated that there was no reward for them nor the time to sufficiently advise and research as needed. To improve the situation, existing advising literature was reviewed, and a split model described by Wesley R. Hanley was used as a reference for the solution. The Split model is where you have a main area that consults a subset of students and then you have a facility that has responsibilities to advise another subset of students. In the end, the school agreed to use spit model and found that this would ultimately be the best path to take. 

The National Academic of Science Engineering Medicine. (1997). Adviser, Teacher,

Role Model, Friend (pp. 65-68). Nap: Nas Nae IOM. Retrieved from https://www.nap.edu/read/5789/chapter/7

 

WWW Improved mentoring programs will likely enhance students' education experiences and help them graduate on time as well as plan out their futures properly. Some effective ways to improve mentoring is to track the progress of former students to inform current students of career experiences of graduates. (Showing the big picture and options to students) Another way to improve mentoring, is to get the students perspective on how well the advisors had helped them and what could possibly be improved. With reaching the students perspective, it can help see weaknesses and strengths in the mentoring programs found in schools. 

 

Team Notes Section 

• Going from my first abstract know  that IUPUI does a similar process, but I have noticed that some faculty have a way heavier workload than others, and I'm pretty sure that they are all getting paid almost the same amount.  

•  IUPUI doesn’t really have a Pre-professional advising team; they only have the PREPS office which can be beneficial, but they also never talk to the advising team, which can make the student more of a middleman/ Messenger. This could often cause some conflict possibly. 

• Though my abstract number 2 focused solely on high school, I believe that some of the points made could also be used for college students. For instance, the postsecondary school planning, I feel that as an incoming freshman in a pre-professional program they should sit down and create a four-year plan instead of stating, hey here are the classes for this semester take them. 

• The citation for the third and 2 abstract was given by the IU database, that is why it is so long.

• Though some of the abstracts do not consist of numerical data they do give good incite to what could be helpful to improving mentoring or improving on time graduation rates.