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Learning Outcome 5: Students can demonstrate their ability
to navigate university resources, identify academic success skills, and
engage in educational, career, and financial planning.
Learning Goal 6: Encourage community building among first year students,
provide students with an opportunity for academic mentoring and intellectually
socializing students to the University.
Combined Suggested Best Practices:
1. Have the student leader give a guided tour of DePaul's website, demonstrating
strategies for getting necessary information online. Although many students
are quite capable of doing this already, those who are not can quickly
be brought up to speed.
2. On the syllabus, outline University policies on academic integrity
and discuss the significance of the syllabus as a contract which relates
nicely to the student handbook
3. Provide an introduction to the library through an assignment that ties
in the course content or can contribute to one of their written assignments.
4. Explain the differences between "drop" and "withdrawal"
and use your class budget as an example of effective financial planning.
5. Allocate time during several different class periods for talking about
academic advising, course selection, and registering for classes. During
these sessions break into groups based on academic college/major and then
the faculty, staff and student mentor can talk with each group about their
course options and planning for future courses.
6. Have students participate in the Student Involvement Fair held early
during the Fall Quarter. (It is typically held the Sunday after classes
begin in Lincoln Park and the 2nd Wednesday of the Fall Quarter at the
Loop Campus.) This can be a positive way to socialize students to the
various kinds of organizations within the university. Student might even
give classroom presentations on an organization that they might be interested
in joining and why, as well as how one might go about joining.
7. Have small groups of two or three students learn about a different
type of student resource on campus (e.g., health center, library, public
safety, financial aid, cultural center) and then prepare a 5-7 minute
PowerPoint presentation on the resource and present it to the class. Have
students place their PowerPoint on the course Blackboard site so that
the students could refer to them later if needed.
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