Suppose you are a senior administrator from the Office of Student Affairs of your university. You are invited to give a talk at a all faculty and staff meeting on student success. To help your faculty and staff colleagues gain a better understanding of factors that affect student progress and completion, you need to explain how college affects students.
You decide to use the research findings in the renowned masterpiece in higher education How College Affects Students and connect to Astin’s I-E-O theoretical framework.
You need to explain what input and environmental variables researchers and practitioners would use to examine their relationships to student success.
Feel free to use some of the findings from the national report of the National Survey of Student Engagement.
What are the college outcomes your faculty and staff colleagues may want to see and could be most important to them?
Are there any research and policy implications in better achieving these outcomes?
How do you assess program effectiveness in the student affairs area?
