[Faculty] Urgent : Your help and participation is needed - Student advising and Provosts Advising Forum

[Yusuf Ozturk]

Engineering Faculty,



I send  a few emails about the plans to improve student advising in the
college and university’s investment on a software platform called EAB
Navigate.   Student advising is an area we identified with potential to
help us improve undergraduate instruction.  Our  peer advising center is
doing a great job  however is not a replacement for  faculty advising.  As
you all know, we do not have staff dedicated to advising in our college and
this responsibility is distributed between department chairs and faculty.



The university invested in a software platform called EAB  Navigate as
advising management software.   If we can properly use this software, we
can transition from reactive advising (student seeks advice) to proactive
advising ( we can detect students who needs advice before they drop out)
and improve our advising process. Improving advising is critical  for our
college at a time we are tasked with closing  achievement gaps  and improve
our programs.    I can not emphasize how important faculty participation is
and how much we need your support.



Provost’s office scheduled an advising forum on November 20, 2020  from
8:00 AM to 11:00 AM to discuss student advising and use cases  where and
how we can use EAB  to help our students and reach them out when they need
us. Here I am  pleading  one more time to ask you join this forum and help
us reshape the advising process in the college.  Our Assistant Dean
 Theresa Garcia will lead a session during the forum to help us navigate
through the software.  Currently we only have    4 faculty members
(including myself) signed up for the advising forum.   Please take a moment
to review this request and make an effort to participate (even if for part
of the meeting)  and provide input to help the college move forward.



Please RSVP here:
https://advising.sdsu.edu/events/rsvp-provost-advising-forum


Provost's Academic Advising Forum RSVPStudents Are at Our Core: Improving
the Student ExperienceFriday, November 20, 20208:30 - 11:00 a.m.

*Zoom*: https://SDSU.zoom.us/j/88151986600
<https://sdsu.zoom.us/j/88151986600>



Best regards

Yusuf





Dr. Yusuf Ozturk

Interim Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies  and Professor

College of Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Co-Director, Smart Health Institute

San Diego State University

5500 Campanile Drive , San Diego, CA 92182-1309

Phone : (619) 594-4550

Email: yozturk at sdsu.edu

My schedule is available here:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1?cid=eW96dHVya0BzZHN1LmVkdQ
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