Identifying At-risk Freshmen and Providing Enhanced Advising Support Through Intrusive Academic Advising Interventions

Abstract

This work in progress describes an effort to identify at-risk freshmen and provide enhanced advising support through intrusive academic advising interventions. In the report Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies identified the key roles innovation and competitiveness play in ensuring the prosperity of the United States (U.S.) economy within the world. Both innovation and competitiveness depend upon the knowledge capital of highly qualified and diverse college graduates to work in STEM fields. However, the U.S. education system is failing to produce sufficient college graduates to fulfill the emerging, rapidly growing job demands within STEM fields.