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Chart Your Course to Success Introductions Discovering Your - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Chart Your Course to Success Introductions Discovering Your - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Discover FSU: Chart Your Course to Success Introductions Discovering Your First Year Experience What do you think of when you think about FSU? What would you like your First Year Experience to be like? What are you expecting your
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Discovering Your First Year Experience
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What do you think
- f when you think
about FSU?
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What would you like your First Year Experience to be like?
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What are you expecting your first week of being at FSU to be like?
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Your First Year at FSU
- What are you looking forward to?
- What things make you
apprehensive?
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We’re Here to Help!
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Chart Your Course: Living the Seminole Creed
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Chart Your Course is a First Year Seminar
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Chart Your Course
- First Year Seminar Programs Across
the Country
- Increases persistence & retention
- Helps to facilitate a successful transition
- Positive Effect on students’ grades
- Increases likelihood of graduation within
4 years by 5-15%
- ALL students benefit from taking a First
Year Seminar
- Positive and meaningful interactions with
faculty/staff and students
- Offered at more than 90% of institutions
(Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005; Pascarella & Terenzini, 1991) (Permzadian & Credé, 2016)
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Chart Your Course helps in these same ways!
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SLS 2206 Student Life Skills
Chart Your Course: Living the Seminole Creed
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CYC Helps You Discover FSU!
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Discovering FSU
- Learn about:
- FSU History & Traditions
- The Seminole Creed
- Getting Involved in the FSU
Community
- Campus Resources
- College Life Coaching
- Career Center
- Student Activities Center
- Center for Leadership & Social Change
- Utilizing an Academic Advisor
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Establish Your Support Network
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Support Network
- 17 Student Maximum Capacity
per session
- Weekly check-ins to start class
- Staff members volunteering their
time
- Peer Navigators for each section
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What’s a Peer Navigator?
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Peer Navigators help you along the way
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Peer Navigators
- Peer Mentors selected after a
thorough application process
- Sophomores, Juniors, or Seniors
- Work in tandem with an Instructor
to co-teach one section
- Plan social outings with class
- Facilitate monthly 1-on-1’s
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How has CYC helped previous students?
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CYC Topics
- Time Management
- Goal Setting & Motivation
- Your Learning Style
- StrengthsQuest
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Health & Wellness
- Ethics & Decision Making
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CYC Projects
Community Project Intellectual Autobiography
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Student Testimony
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When asked about the most valuable aspects of Chart Your Course, students said:
- “There was a sense of comfort. I felt
comfortable in that class which aided in how I perceived what I was learning.”
- “Everything that it has taught me about
FSU!”
- “Being able to have meaningful class
discussions with everyone involved.”
- “Learning about the creed and FSU
resources.”
- “I became close to one of the other
members of the class”
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Spring 2018 Evaluations
- 100% of students would strongly
agree or agree to recommend their instructor for future semesters
- 100% strongly agreed their Peer
Navigator…
- Made important contributions to class
- Was approachable
- Was an appropriate role model
- Was a valuable resource
- Was a valuable part of their CYC
experience
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We also have some fun, too!
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Fun!
- Fun, hands-on activities and
discussions in class
- No lectures
- Prizes given away!
- Group social outings and extra
credit for attending campus events
- Create first group of friends on
campus
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Staff & Peer Navigator Pairs
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Section 001
Alison Hughes – Instructor & David Iniguez – Peer Navigator
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Section 002
Allison Menendez – Instructor Angel Purganan– Peer Navigator
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Section 003
Becca Piers– Instructor
Amanda Dioguardi– Peer Navigator
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Section 004
Bo Marcevski– Instructor Gabby Perez– Peer Navigator
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Section 005
Brandon Newell– Instructor & Essence– Peer Duncan Navigator
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Section 006
Holly Proctor– Instructor Raina – Peer Novelli-Miller Navigator
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Section 007
Julie Fleishman– Instructor Peter – Peer Kreutzer Navigator
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Section 008
Tion Taylor– Instructor Natalie – Peer Cevallos Navigator
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Registering for Chart Your Course
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Registering
- Only held in the Fall & Spring
semester
- Search for SLS course prefix
- The course number is SLS 2206
- Contact New Student & Family
Programs or Brandon Newell if you have any questions!
- 850-644-2785
- bnnewell@fsu.edu
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