“Our students benefited the most from our adoption of CLSS. And their advisors. Reducing the schedule creation timeline by two weeks means those two weeks can be put to better use, with students and their advisors meeting during that period. Student advisors at TAMIU had been struggling to provide meaningful consultations to all of their students. We were neglecting the human side of advising, recounts Garcia. But now, two extra weeks to schedule our students across campus that’s 10 extra working days, and that represents a lot of advising appointment opportunities.”
“We realized we could do a better job helping students understand their academic path to completion. The first step was to narrow the options, not the opportunities. We did this by creating meta-majors and moving away from the cafeteria model of offering courses and programs.”