{"id":4686,"date":"2019-11-15T11:37:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T16:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=4686"},"modified":"2019-11-15T11:37:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T16:37:58","slug":"polk-state-wins-florida-college-system-chancellors-best-practice-award-for-first-year-experience-and-guided-pathways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/11\/15\/polk-state-wins-florida-college-system-chancellors-best-practice-award-for-first-year-experience-and-guided-pathways\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk State wins Florida College System Chancellor\u2019s Best Practice Award for First Year Experience and Guided Pathways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For the second consecutive year, Polk State College received a Chancellor\u2019s Best Practice Award from the Florida College System \u2013 this time for its First Year Experience and Guided Pathways programs focused on ensuring students persist on their paths to degrees and careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

College representatives accepted the award Thursday in Palm Harbor alongside colleagues from State College of Florida, Eastern Florida State College, and Florida SouthWestern Sate College who were also recognized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe First Year Experience and Guided Pathways provide students with critical support early on, as well as resources they need along their college journeys to achieve their academic goals in a timely manner,\u201d Polk State President Angela Garcia Falconetti said. \u201cI could not be more proud of our faculty and staff, who continue to not only open doors of opportunities for our students, but who also guide them on their pathways to graduation and meaningful employment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The First Year Experience<\/a> (FYE) launched in fall 2015 to improve retention and completion of first-time-in-college (FTIC) students, and it has proven successful with a nearly 20 percent increase in fall-to-fall retention since the program\u2019s inception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FYE is a comprehensive onboarding program that includes First Flight Freshmen Welcome<\/a>, the First Year Seminar<\/a>, success coaching, peer mentoring, and more that allow students to connect to key resources and develop relationships with peers, faculty, and staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFYE helps students acclimate to college, engage in success activities, develop a sense of belonging, and experience timely completion of their academic goals,\u201d said Cate Igo, Director of Academic Success Initiatives. \u201cA key element of FYE is the First Flight Freshmen Welcome, which is the official launch of the academic year where students are welcomed to campus and explore pathways with faculty experts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the College\u2019s implementation of the American Association of Community Colleges\u2019 Guided Pathways Model in fall 2019, students now have the opportunity to also engage in Guided Pathways breakout sessions based on their majors or if they have not declared an area of study yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students explore career opportunities and the pathways to them through program maps<\/a>, which provide specific sequences of courses needed to complete programs of study from a student\u2019s first term to graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polk State\u2019s FYE and Guided Pathways received a Chancellor\u2019s Best Practice Award for developing student-centered guided pathways \u2013 one of three focus areas defined this year in alignment with Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019 goal to make Florida No. 1 in the nation in workforce education by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The College also received a Chancellor\u2019s Best Practice Award in 2018 for the Establishing Leaders in Teacher Education (ELITE) Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCommissioner of Education Richard Corcoran and I applaud all of our colleges for their commitment to continuous improvement,\u201d Florida College System Chancellor Kathy Hebda said in a press release. \u201cThis year\u2019s awardees are excellent examples of how evidence-based strategies and strong workforce partnerships can accelerate success for all of our students.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the second consecutive year, Polk State College received a Chancellor\u2019s Best Practice Award from the Florida College System \u2013 this time for its First Year Experience and Guided Pathways… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"32","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polk-state-college-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}