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WIP - 360 Coaching to Support Whole-Student Advising in the First-Year

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Conference

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 13: Work-in-Progress Postcard Session #2

Page Count

8

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41473

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https://peer.asee.org/41473

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209

Paper Authors

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Sophia Santillan Duke University

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Lupita TeMiquel-McMillian Duke University

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Jennifer Ganley

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Stacy Tantum Duke University

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Abstract

This Work in Progress paper will describe efforts to integrate wellness and career advising into the academic advising model for first-year engineering students at a medium-sized private university, a whole-student advising initiative we have termed 360 Coaching. This effort builds on previously reported efforts to implement a learner-centered approach for first-year advising, Advising-as-Teaching, at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, in which the first-year engineering program instructors are also the first-year advisors (Freeman, Gentry, and Goldberg, 2016 ASEE Annual Conference). Like the Advising-as-Teaching model at Northwestern University, we are leveraging the community that naturally develops in our first-year engineering design course by creating the student cohorts within sections of the course. Unlike the Advising-as-Teaching model at Northwestern University, our 360 Coaches are drawn from all engineering faculty rather than only the instructors for our first-year design course, and places every first-year engineering student in a cohort of 12-14 peers with layered support to mentor them and guide them to broader university support when warranted. We will evaluate the efficacy of our 360 Coaching program by surveying first-year students at the conclusion of the academic year to gauge their satisfaction with this layered mentorship approach to advising as well as the degree to which they believe they have developed engineering self-efficacy, self-efficacy for self-regulated learning, and resilience – attributes that will help them become self-reliant, self-actuating, resilient engineers. Within the first year of its implementation, we are observing that the 360 Coaching program is providing the intended benefits for our first-year students – community developed with the 360 cohorts and 360 Coaches knowing their first-year advisees prior to the conventional mid-semester advising meeting for spring course selections. Most importantly, our 360 Coaches have reported that they have been well-positioned to support students who were facing challenges that commonly arise while transitioning to university life and students who may have been uncertain as to where or from whom to seek support under our previous traditional advising model had an ally in their 360 Coach under our new 360 Coaching program.

Santillan, S., & TeMiquel-McMillian, L., & Ganley, J., & Tantum, S. (2022, August), WIP - 360 Coaching to Support Whole-Student Advising in the First-Year Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41473

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