For the past three years, I have led student success initiatives for the Division of Academic Affairs at Fort Hays State University. These activities include:
- Our participation in the AASCU Re-Imagining the First Year (RFY) project. This project was a three-year project made up of a consortium of 44 AASCU campuses across the United States that aimed to create a “standard of care” toolkit of interventions campuses could use to improve the first year of college. Here is a report of our results after the second year of the project.
- Management of the university UNIV 101 Freshman Seminar course. This is a mandatory course for all first-time, full-time freshman at the university. Enrollment is usually between 900-1000 students across 30-35 sections. I supervise the Coordinator of Freshman Seminar in performance of these duties.
- Management of Supplemental Instruction activities. I am a trained Supplemental Instruction Supervision. Supplemental instruction began in the Spring, 2016 semester at FHSU in one course as a pilot and has now expanded to four high failure rate courses in the university. We are presently making plans to scale this initiative further as part of our strategic plan.
- Implementation of co-requisite remediation strategies. I have worked with faculty in the Department of English and Math to establish and expand their co-requisite remediation program.
- Faculty Development. I designed a faculty development social belonging intervention with Dr. Andrew Feldstein which was launched in the Fall, 2018 semester with the goal of improving underrepresented student course failure rates in the top ten freshman courses.
Timothy R Crowley 