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Practical Strategies for Faculty and Staff to Cultivate First-gen Student Success

Virtual Live Briefings Student Success

This session will highlight practical strategies to engage faculty and staff in enhancing the sense of belonging and overall success of first-generation students. This includes the creation of a collaborative, cross-divisional, on-campus student success summit designed to educate the campus community on the current state and trends of our first-generation student population as well as intentional, year-round outreach to faculty and staff.

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Learn about a cross-divisional collaboration to coordinate an on-campus first-generation student success summit to enhance the sense of belonging and overall success of this diverse and growing population at the University of San Diego (USD). The First-Generation Action Team’s (FGAT) original purpose was to engage and support the first-generation undergraduate and graduate student experiences proactively to attain retention and graduation rates equal to, or greater than, the University’s average through a multi-layered holistic plan. 

After two years of offering year-round programs, the First-Generation Action Team decided to coordinate a First-Generation Student Success Summit for the USD campus community titled “Enhancing a Sense of Belonging for USD’s First-Generation Students: Practical Strategies for Faculty and Staff.” Building off of the success of the first summit, the FGAT designed a second summit titled “Practical Strategies to Cultivate USD First-Generation Student Success.” These summits are scaffolded to include quantitative data and analysis of USD’s first-generation enrollment patterns and key demographics of the various intersecting identities followed by findings from qualitative research to inform the understanding of the first-generation student experiences on our campus. The Student Success Summits have become an annual occurrence, evolving into conferences just for first-generation students.

Beyond hosting a summit, participants will learn additional ways to reach out to faculty with readily implementable ideas and resources to support first-generation students’ success and sense of academic belonging. Lisa Nunn will offer some tips from her 2020 award winning book 33 Simple Strategies for Faculty, a Week-by-Week Resource for Teaching First-Year and First-Generation Students. Drawing from her 2021 book College Belonging: How First-Year and First-Generation Students Navigate Campus Life, she will also share ideas on ways to alert faculty to pay attention to the first-generation students in their classes as well as understand how to recognize both the strengths first-generation students bring with them as well as some common challenges they face.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

  • identify key details in developing a collaborative student success summit centered on supporting the first-generation college student population; and
  • list ways to reach out to faculty with readily implementable resources to support first-generation students’ academic success and to foster academic belonging.

Registration

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If you are not a NASPA individual member, please visit our membership section to learn more about membership types and benefits. We hope you’ll consider joining today!

If you are experiencing financial hardship, you may qualify for a NASPA Foundation Membership Scholarship.

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Registration and Fees
NASPA Member
$79
Non-member
$179

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