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In effecting the Quality Enhancement Plan at Navarro College, The Board of Trustees, President Sanchez, the Leadership Team and the Quality Enhancement Plan Committee of the College have placed certain key elements of the College mission at the forefront of importance as an open door institution: commitment to student persistence, student integration and student learning. The Faculty Centered Student Advising Program, implemented during the Fall of 2003, allows students the opportunity to interact and to develop a special relationship with faculty outside the classroom as a means of impacting student learning and student success. As described in the Quality Enhancement Plan, "we continue to believe in the outcome of research which states that the more students are involved in the social and intellectual life of the college and the more frequently they make contact with faculty and other students about learning issues especially outside class, the more students are likely to learn."
At the beginning of each semester, students are assigned to faculty advisors based on student major, class schedule, and campus most attended. Faculty are trained and apprised of updates to the advising program during convocation and through special training sessions available throughout the year. Initially, the Faculty Centered Student Advising Program has assigned only first-time full-time students; however, a series of stages are being implemented to incorporate further development as described in the following chart. A review of institutional data and other forms of assessment related to the success of our students determines the progression of these stages.
