Appendix D2

SELF-ASSESSMENT – EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Kathleen Bonds, Director - March 30, 1999

MISSION

The Educational Development Program (EDP) is an academic support services program whose mission is to provide access to a college or university education for students who would not qualify due to insufficient academic preparation and financial resources. Priority for acceptance into the program is given to historically underrepresented groups within the university. In addition to academic advising, course selection, supplemental instruction and orientation course work, support services are designed to offer emotional and social support to students so that they can reach their full potential and develop intellectually, socially, and spiritually.

Goals and Objectives

#1 - To improve EDP student retention rates by 5% over the next five years.

#2 - To improve EDP student graduation rates by 5% over the next five years.

#3 - Assist the Office of Admissions, Deans, and/or departments in recruiting minority students throughout the state to come to Fredonia.

Measure of Goals

#1 - Determine through student and alumni surveys which services impact most on student retention.

#2 - Determine through student and alumni surveys which program services impact most on student retention.

#3 - Review areas where minority students who have applied to the college have come from to identify areas of the state which have yielded the fewest number of applicants. Utilize EDP staff, current students, community, and other state educational programs to increase the number of applicants to the college.

Results

#1 - Student survey completed; alumni survey results forthcoming.

#2 - Results are forthcoming.

#3 - Results are forthcoming.

Feedback to Unit

#1 - Utilize survey results to improve program planning and implement suggestions to improve services to students.

#2 - Utilize survey results to improve program planning and implement suggestions to improve services to students.

#3 - Develop recruitment strategies to assist, complement, and extend the efforts made by the Office of Admissions to increase the number of students applying to Fredonia for

1999-2000.