Group Case Study Analysis

Group Case Study Analysis
Faculty members and student affairs professionals can benefit a great deal from performing case studies. Case study analysis helps provide the participants with many perspectives of the interactions between several aspects of a college campus. Case studies allow participants the opportunity to use the theories that have been discussed in coursework by applying them in a controlled, safe setting before attempting them in a real work setting (Stage & Hubbard, 2012). This paper will discuss a case study regarding academic advising and career service collaboration, and problems associated with increased enrollment and an increasingly diverse student population. Theories that apply to this case will be discussed and recommendations
As discussed earlier, the students felt like there was an overall lack of communication and that they were receiving either incorrect or conflicting information. The President of the college has tasked the Vice President of Student Affairs with increasing the number of partnerships between faculty and student affairs staff, specifically as it pertains to academic advising. Also, the Dean of Students has proposed a partnership between Career Services and Academic
As the student body has diversified and grown larger, what programs or initiatives are being pursued around campus to make the campus more welcoming to all students? Is there any information available as to why students are taking longer to complete their degrees or why they are leaving after their first year? Perhaps these questions could be answered by conducting research on these specific student populations. Is the faculty as diverse as the student population? Have faculty members heard student discussion regarding their displeasure with the advising process, and is this contributing to the decreased retention? Are the academic advisors hearing the same complaints and concerns that the faculty is hearing? How is the current advising set-up? Are appropriate records kept? Is advising student or advisor initiated? What role does Career Services currently play in advising? Is the culture of the college highly political, or are politics not a large concern? When the college claims that the student population is increasingly diverse, what exactly do they mean? Is it racial, ethnic, religious, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and are some groups more represented than others? With increased enrollment, are there a sufficient number of instructors for the amount of students, and are the facilities adequate to handle the number of enrolled