Preparing for Success: New Student Orientation
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Preparing for Success: New Student Orientation
- 1. PREPARING FOR SUCCESS A Complete Overhaul of New Student Orientation Brittany Naylor & Matt Painter McCoy College of Business Office of Graduate Programs
- 2. 2 • ~ 39,000 students overall • ~ 3,800 graduate students • ~ 400 business graduate students • Four programs, now six as of Fall 2019 • MBA (FT & PT) • Master of Accountancy • MS Accounting/IT • MS Human Resource Management • MS Data Analytics • MS Marketing Research Overview of Texas State/McCoy
- 3. 3 Enrollment Trends • MBA PT: Declining • MBA FT: Slight Decline • Master of Accountancy: Flat • MS Accounting/Info. Tech: Flat • MS HR Management: Flat • MS Data Analytics: New/very popular • MS Marketing Research: New/popular
- 4. 4 New Student Orientation (NSO) GOAL: Empower new students with resources for success in graduate school
- 6. 6 McCoy Graduate Bootcamp • Vision of new Associate Dean for Graduate Programs (2014) • Entirely new structure • Coincided with first MBA Cohort class • Implemented Fall 2015
- 7. 7 Bootcamp: Expanded Goals • Establishing relationships with peers, faculty, and staff • Enhanced self-awareness • Attempt to address known areas of weakness that are not currently a part of the academic curriculum
- 8. 8 Planning & Prep • Starts early…really, really early • Many hands make for light lifting • First time is more of a challenge • Risk too much communication • Charts! ☺
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- 11. 11 Bootcamp Components/Activities • “Fire & Brimstone” talk • MGSA-sponsored social • Breakout Orientation sessions (program-specific) • Faculty Panel • Personality Assessment
- 12. 12 Bootcamp Components/Activities • Networking: pre-, post-, during • Team Building (x2) • Presentation Skills training • Financial Aid options • Strengths Finder 2.0 • Alumni Panel
- 13. 13 Budget
- 14. 14 Budget • Can be done for $0 (or close to it) • Leverage existing resources • Faculty • Staff • Student volunteers • Other campus departments with a vested interest in grad student success • Estimated budget for our event: • Appx $2,500 (excluding staff time)
- 15. 15 Post-Event Survey • Good touchpoint for new students • Gauge pre- and post-event attitudes • Be brave: Subjective comments make future events better • How to get relevant feedback
- 16. 16 Best Practices • Use volunteers • Be generous with swag • Don’t feel like you have to be super creative or reinvent the wheel
- 17. 17 Best Practices • Really leverage on-campus resources/other departments • VIP invites • Don’t apologize if framed as “mandatory” • Little failures don’t matter if it leads to future improvements…have a long game
- 18. 18 WHY?? • Invest in your students at a critical time in their graduate journey • Sets the stage for next ____ months • Preempt the questions you hate answering over, and over, and over, and • Reduced attrition (?)
- 19. 19 Questions
- 20. Thank You! Brittany Naylor bnaylor@txstate.edu Graduate Academic Advisor, McCoy College of Business Matthew Painter mpainter@txstate.edu MBA Program Director, McCoy College of Business