Strategic Initiative 6: Improve the academic preparation of students admitted to NCSSM and provide sufficient support for their success while on campus.
This strategy focuses on improving our ability to support the success of students at NCSSM. The results in the strategy address this effort by improving our ability to recruit talented students from across the state and to identify indicators of success for students at NCSSM that will better inform our selection criteria. The strategy also provides for increased support for students once they are accepted to NCSSM. The talented students accepted to NCSSM come from all over the state and have had varying academic opportunities prior to NCSSM. One of the results in this strategy is to provide a summer program for students who can benefit from academic enrichment in math and writing prior to the start of their junior year. This program will allow students to acclimate to the rigors of NCSSM and set them up for success at the start of the school year. This strategy also calls for enhancing our advisor program and for increasing opportunities to build relationships through enhanced student-to-student and staff-to-student interactions on campus.
Specific Results:
| In Progress | Create an admissions rubric that aligns with factors correlating with success at NCSSM and that includes qualitative factors such as motivation and interest in science, technology, engineering, and math. |
| Starts Year 2 | Improve the Advising Program by increasing interaction between advisors and advisees, and improving the quality by implementing an Advisor training and evaluation program. |
| Starts Year 3 | Train faculty, staff, alumni, and students to offer recruitment activities that include academic workshops for potential applicants in their home communities each year. |
| Starts Year 3 | Revise registration and scheduling practices to increase students’ chances for academic success. |
| In Progress | Create a summer program to provide prerequisite content for accepted juniors whose placement scores and other appropriate criteria indicate a need in order to introduce and acclimate them to the level of rigor at NCSSM. |
| Starts Year 2 | Enhance student support by increasing the quality and quantity of extracurricular staff-to-students interaction. |
| Starts Year 2 | Enhance student support by increasing the quality and quantity of staff-to-student and student-to-student academic interaction outside of the classroom. |
| Starts Year 2 | Provide student information to faculty and staff and enhance their ability to meet students’ needs. |