ACADEMIC AND STUDENT AFFAIRS
LEADERS' INSTITUTE
PRE-CONFERENCE SURVEY
JOHN N. GARDNER INSTITUTE
Sara Stein Koch, PhD
Which of the following reasons best describes
your reason for attending this conference?
1%
Enhance (an) existing
partnership
17%
Develop new
partnerships
20%
62%
To learn more about
partnerships
To come to Asheville
What three undergraduate student success initiatives or
issues best lend themselves to partnerships at your
institution?
First Year
Programs
Academic
Support
Skills/Tutoring
Early Alert
Systems
Academic
Advising
Retention
Efforts
Orientation
Student
Success
Centers
Living
Learning
Communities
Curricular
Design
When new student success partnerships are proposed,
what is the most frequent originating source?
50%
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
49%
39%
7%
5%
1%
Academic
Student
Affairs
Affairs
Administrators Administrators
President or
Chancellor
Faculty
Other
When a new student success partnership initiative is proposed,
where do you most commonly find the greatest resistance?
21%
Not Applicable
7%
Other
47%
Faculty
Admissions officer
1%
6%
Chief financial officer
President or chancellor
Student affairs
Academic affairs
1%
6%
11%
How would you best characterize the stance of your
president or chancellor towards these partnerships?
66%
18%
10%
6%
0%
0%
What has been the trend on your campus in terms of
integration of academic and student affairs functions?
More Integration
65%
No Change
28%
Less 7%
What are the two greatest factors influencing interest in
partnerships on your campus?
Partnership
Economic need
to achieve greater efficiencies 31%
interest
Belief that partnerships will yield greater student success 75%
Partnership
interest
Does your institution ever hold joint academic/student
affairs retreats, summit meetings, special forums, etc?
“YES”
“No” 39%
Frequently 8%
Occasionally 26%
Rarely 27%
When you personally look for information/inspiration
for models of effective partnership, where do you turn?
Professional
Meetings
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
NASPA
HLC
FYE
AAC&U
NACADA
AACC
ACPA
Other
Institutions
• Peer
• Local state
colleges
• Big Ten
• Community
College
systems
Published
Literature
• Chronicle
• CC Week
• ESource for
CollegeTransitions
• Educational
Advisory Board
• All things by John
N. Gardner,
Randy Swing,
and ACCT
Which if any of these or other “processes” have you used as a
way to jointly explore enhancing partnerships?
Reaffirmation
of Accreditation
31%
Foundations of
Excellence
38%
Grant Proposals
22%
Achieving
the
Dream
1%
Not Sure
8%
How do you primarily classify your position?
Academic Affairs
Student Affairs
Other
7%
49%
44%
At your institution does the chief student affairs officer
report to:
Chief Academic
Officer 21%
Chief Executive
Officer 58%
Other 17%
President
Chief Operations
Chief/VP Enrollment
Is also Chief
Academic Officer
5%
Chief Student Affairs Officer
Do you have dual reporting lines to both academic and
student affairs for some functions on your campus?
No
74%
Yes
26%
Advising
Undergraduate Studies
First Year Experience
International Student
Retention
Honors
Study Abroad
Learning/ Study Skills
Career Center
Who shared their thoughts?
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49 Institutions
136 surveys started
108 completed
Thank you for sharing!