General Info
When is comes to providing guidances to commuter/off campus students, it is important take into account all characteristics of a student's life such as time management, family type, work-school-life balance.
What is transitional advising?
To recognize that families are an important part of a student's college experience.
What are Parent and Family Programs?
This unit seeks to serve families as an integral figure in a student's post secondary experience
What is Parent + Family Programs
Mason's Commuter Off Campus Student Services and Parent and Family Programs are housed within:
What is Student Affairs?
This is a challenge around ensuring the right definition and how to refer to a student's home support system whether they are family and/or friends
What is the changing dynamics of families
Mason's unit's name for the Parent + Family Program?
What is New Students and Family Programs?
This forms Mason major programming event that provides the main transitional point for freshmen and transfer students.
What is Orientation?
These students do not participate in residential units on campus.
What is a commuter/off campus student?
Mason's Commuter Off Campus Student Services and Parent and Family Programs report to:
What is University Life?
Student's ability to remain an active student in good standing and is able to continue studying into the following semester.
What is college retention?
Mason's unit's name for Commuter Off Campus Student Services.
What is Contemporary Student Services?
This rate is a focus to ensure off campus and commuter students complete their academic program of study and are conferred their credential.
What is graduation rate?
Families in the 21st century are ever-changing and the term ______ is more inclusive.
What is family?
Student Affairs professionals in Parent and Family Programs seek to enhance the ________ ________ by fostering an inclusive, supportive, and learning-centered environment.
What is student experience?
Commuter and off campus students are not able to make a physical, emotional, and academic connection to the institution.
What is the lack of sense of belonging?
Mason's resource to provide food and toiletries for students experiencing hardship.
What is Patriot Pantry?
Mason's commuter off campus student services focus on _________ and ______ __ ______ to the campus community.
What is engagement and sense of belonging?
Another term for non-traditional student in college that is not commuter or off campus student.
What is a contemporary student?
What is Retention/Student Success?
This contributes as a major factor of competing for a student's sense of time management and energy expended on a student's efforts towards educational development.
What are external forces?
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What is personal, life, work balance?
To educate, engage, and guide parents and family members of students towards the goal of ensuring a successful transition that promotes retention and leads towards graduation.
What is the mission of Parent + Family Programs?
Mason's Parent and Family Programs seek to connect families with the _______ and ________.
Mason's Parent and Family Programs primarily service _____ ____ students.
What is undergraduate/transfer?
This practice is helpful in combining multiple units and resources to work towards a common goal?
What is collaboration?
These add unnecessary additional steps that forces students to expend more tiem and energy navigating college.
What are policies and institutional practices?