What Works 2? Graduates as Advisors for Transition and Students’ Success

Millard, Luke and Janjua, Rohzeena (2020) What Works 2? Graduates as Advisors for Transition and Students’ Success. Frontiers in Education, 5. p. 131. ISSN 2504-284X

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Abstract

Will there ever be a University that provides sufficient staffing resource to provide the perfect academic advising and tutoring service to all students? There may also be the small matter of a debate as to what that perfect service may offer. This article will discuss one University’s approach that sought to makes effective use of staffing resource, offers significant development opportunities for those staff and ensure relevance and connectivity between students and their staff. The model that was designed, and is now embedded, focused on the creation of an integrated system of Student Success Advisers (SSA). These roles were filled by students who had just completed their degree in the faculty in which they are then employed. This new staffing resource targets a specific aspect of support and advising for students that focuses upon student transition and the first year experience. The SSAs are viewed by students as relevant and relatable providing an approachable interface between students and staff, and evidence suggests that it works. The roles were created through the University’s participation in the Higher Education Academy’s What Works Student Retention and Success program (2012–2016) and now sees 17 SSAs employed across the University. This article will consider the creation of the role and its fit to the university; offer clarity around role objectives and provide insights from GSSAs on impact of the role. It will then detail how the role grew and became embedded across the university, explaining the integration with the university’s wider student support system to engage students through their transition and first year experience.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	** From Frontiers via Jisc Publications Router ** History: collection 2020; received 10-01-2020; accepted 30-06-2020; epub 28-07-2020. ** Licence for this article: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Identification Number:	10.3389/feduc.2020.00131
Dates:	Date Event 1 July 2020 Accepted 28 July 2020 Published
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Education, retention, students, co-design, advising, community
Subjects:	CAH22 - education and teaching > CAH22-01 - education and teaching > CAH22-01-01 - education
Divisions:	Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences > College of Education and Social Work
SWORD Depositor:	JISC PubRouter
Depositing User:	JISC PubRouter
Date Deposited:	11 Aug 2020 09:10
Last Modified:	12 Jan 2022 17:22
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9636

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