Onboarding Students – On-Demand Training

Innovative and Strategic Initiatives to Positively Impact Student Connectedness, Persistence & Completion

Create a welcoming and supportive environment for your students to embrace your institution’s culture so they feel wanted, understood, appreciated, and valued. 

Strategic onboarding of students is the innovative, comprehensive, and intentional practice that addresses academic and non-academic needs of today’s undergraduate students. If done right, it is a powerful initiative that improves persistence and time-to-degree, and an overall enhancement of the undergraduate experience.

Efforts focused on student success by student affairs and academic units reveal a need for strategies that go beyond the knowledge of compliance pieces to those that help students connect to resources, one another, and the campus culture.

Strategic onboarding will connect them right from the start and increase their confidence that they are in the right place. Build a lifelong affinity from the first day they walk on campus until long after they walk across the graduation stage.

Gather your staff who interact with your students both in and out of the classroom for this valuable educational opportunity. Our presenter will equip you with practical strategies to create a holistic onboarding experience to empower your students and ensure they have a successful undergraduate journey. She will highlight the 4 C’s framework (Compliance, Clarification, Culture, and Connection) and use it as a lens to onboarding strategies.

Topics Covered

Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you:

• Reshape, elevate, and frame your current student onboarding process based on best practices and proven research.
• Create a culture that focuses on setting new students up for long-term success while upholding your institution’s policies and values.
• Adapt current onboarding procedures, policies, and strategies to give students the confidence and tools they need to engage, persist, and thrive on your campus.
• Foster a culture that focuses on creating positive onboarding practices and leads to positive educational experiences.
• Develop a strategic and holistic onboarding experience that will set the stage for students’ successful general education and undergraduate journey.

Presenter

Dr. Jeri Heileman is currently serving as an Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Arizona located in Tucson, Arizona.
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