West Virginia University
is reorganizing its support system for undergraduate students who have not yet
declared a major.
At the Board of Governors meeting on Nov. 16, Associate Provost for Undergraduate
Academic Affairs Elizabeth Dooley outlined WVU's newly proposed University College – a centralized support
system/program to assist students who don't have an academic major when they
start college.
University College will be an "academic home" for
pre-majors, general studies students and nontraditional students and will
launch in July 2013.
Currently,
some 6,000 students are serviced by the academic advising center, which will be
replaced with the University College, she said.
"It is our
hope that these students will receive structured and coordinated academic
services that will empower them to succeed and help them to make the transition
into a major program," Dooley said in a WVU news release.
Academic and career advising will remain central components of the new college,
but it will also encompass Blueprint for Student Success programs such as the First-year
Experience, Center for Civic Engagement, the Resident Faculty Leader program,
summer transition entry program, McNair Scholars program and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Academic
Affairs Elizabeth
Dooley outlined WVU's newly proposed University College – a
centralized support system/program to assist students who don't have an
academic major when they start college. This new unit will be an "academic
home" for pre-majors, general studies students and nontraditional students, she
said, and will be launched in July 2013.
Dooley will serve as dean of the University College.
Dooley said
WVU's retention rate of 77.2 percent and graduation rate of 57 percent are both
above national averages, but "we can do better."
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