A new paper from the Education Advisory Board (EAB) reported
that instructors aren’t being asked to help students succeed often enough,
according to an article for Inside Higher Education.
The Evolving Role of Faculty in Student Success,
with a corresponding infographic,
found that while plenty of pedagogical innovations are available to
instructors, training and support may still be lacking. For example, 75% of
responding schools purchased or developed early-warning systems to identify
at-risk students, yet not all were being used.
The report advised that faculty should be able to
customize early-warning systems to make sure they’re being used. It also
suggested that provosts and academic deans need to make sure faculty are aware
that mentoring should reach all students, not just the most and least at-risk
students.
“Critical
reforms that pertain to curricular requirements, academic policies, advising
practices, and transfer articulation all rely on the willingness of faculty to
redesign the institutional approach and carry out a new set of procedures, but
many academic administrators have neglected to involve faculty from the
outset,” wrote the authors of the report.
