Strategic direction for ASR

Thank you to all ASR staff who attended the session on Retention and Graduation at the spring ASR staff event. We appreciate your willingness to engage with one another on this topic. After the event, we collected your suggestions and have begun to map out how ASR might implement them.

A few items are already in progress:

1. Provide students with more counseling, especially financial.
• As the final handful of One Stop counselors become certified Financial Wellness Counselors, we will be able to offer more individual appointments for students.
• Starting this summer, a small cadre of Office of Student Finance staff will also complete the Financial Wellness certification. This way, even more staff will be equipped to teach and help students become more financially aware.
2. Help students better understand borrowing.
• This summer, undergraduate students who have taken out loans while at the University will be presented with “Borrowing history” when they navigate to the “Accept/Decline” page in MyU’s My Finances. 
• Students will be directed to their “borrowing history” information annually and will be able to view a copy of it any time after within their communication center (in Student Center).