Promoting Academic Success | Office for Advising Development

Promoting Academic Success is rooted in proactive advising, intervention strategies, and networked resourcing throughout our campus departments and units. There are many programs and initiatives that live throughout the campus that focus on this work and contribute to this goal. The Office for Advising Development and Student Systems is directly charged with overseeing and/or implementing the following contributing initiatives:

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Promoting Academic Progress

Features proactive advising tips around progress toward degree and projecting future plans. Provides resources for Satisfactory Academic Progress trainings and financial aid cancellation support.
Early Alerts

Using a component in iAdvise, Early Alerts is a program that allows faculty to enter alerts for students receiving a D/F/U in a selected set of courses beginning week 3 and ending in week 8 of each term.
Success Networks & Shared Notes

Success Network in iAdvise shows a student all Advisor(s), Instructors, and others directly connected to that student, along with the contact information for those individuals. Shared notes allows the network to communicate in real time.
Non-Cognitive Profiles

First-year and transfer students complete a survey that generates "Non-cognitive Profiles," to provide prematriculation measure of noncognitive assets to assist in retention and persistence with students.
On Track Program

On-track is a research project aimed at developing first-year by-term indicators of 4-year and 6-year graduation to inform prevention and early intervention strategies and increase graduation rates at UIC
Intercollege Transfer

Resources for current UIC students and advisors for each college and the majors concerning the requirements and process to change from college to college.
Priority Student Project

Priority Students are identified to ensure appropriate outreach, resourcing and referrals are provided to promote collaborative student success initiatives.

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