1. PICK ONE! and
OrgSync Integration
Engaging First-Year Students
Eric Rossow, Center for Student Involvement & Leadership
The University of Iowa

2. Getting Involved Matters
• Student Success Team Initiative in 2007
• Benefits of Involvement
• First-Year, First-Semester Students
• Extra-Curricular, Outside of the Classroom
• Nine Categories
• Orientation through October 1
• Registration and Exploration Tool
• Incentives

3. Initial Exploration Tool
• Opportunity to Discover
• Nine Categories Represented
• Student Entered Data and Shopping Cart
• Type Ahead Lists
• Labor Intensive Process for Assessment
• Confusion
• Something had to Change

4. Exploration Tool and OrgSync
• PICK ONE’s New Home
• Campus IT Built
Exploration Tool and
New Website Design
• Elimination of
Shopping Cart
• Information Pull from
OrgSync for Student
Organization
Information
• API Pull – Calls

5. API Calls
• Nightly Process
• https://api.orgsync.com/api/accounts/list?key
=[key]
• https://api.orgsync.com/api/organizations/?ke
y=[key].
• https://api.orgsync.com/api/organizations/[or
gID]?key=[key].

6. OrgSync Advances
• Easier Connections
• Messages emailed to Organization
Representatives and First-Year Students
• Accurate Information
• Initial Contact and Direction Provided
• Organized
• Accessibility to Data
• Ability to Not Include Certain Data (Grad Orgs)
• 90% Pick Student Organizations
• Other Eight Categories Don’t Utilize OrgSync

7. PICK ONE! Assessment
• Students are Getting Involved
• Key Messaging Tool
• Ambassador Program
• Registration Numbers Peak in 2010
• Students Connected to Campus, Picked Sooner
• Site Used for Registration
• Increased Connections with Generated Email
• Increased Access to Information and Contacts for
Organizations

8. PICK ONE! Moving Forward
• Continue Using
OrgSync
• Modifying Exploration
Site
• Updates to Generated
Messages
• Continued Marketing
Efforts
• Transfer Students