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We're a smaller program, so we have the ability to meet one-on-one with most of our students.
We also have faculty that are very engaged with the student population, so we see each other multiple times per day.
We also have the ability, as faculty members, to speak to each other about a particular student.
If we see someone who seems to be struggling in an area, we can discuss that and ways we can intervene for that student.
Our students organize events. We had a target shooting competition to raise money for the food pantry,
so in these ways. our students can stay connected with the thing that they love, the criminal justice field, \
and they can also learn how to be of service to the community.
We also give prior learning credit. We know that quite a few of our students have come from the military,
or come from other situations where they've actually have these skills in place,
so we review the student curriculum to see if there's any way that we can legitimately give prior learning credit for these life experiences
that these students already have.
We do internships and scholarships;
we have a student organization, Lambda Alpha Epsilon;
we promote student success by being interactive with our students in that organization.
We bring in demonstrations such as canine demonstrations;
we partner with the Police Academy, where they have had a driving simulator, so our students get a chance to go through that.
Our students also have a chance to help us with an annual event, Criminal Justice Day.
We also have the ability to have demonstrations about certain kinds of skills, such as handcuffin,
so the students can see how to do it, when they get into the field.
In the program review, we focused on enhancing student engagement, and we do that with a multi-faceted technique.
One of the ways that we have dealt with student engagement is that we focused on the "flipped" classroom.
Another way that we work with student engagement is providing anatomy models for both the Science Resource Center,
as well as the anatomy open lab.
Another thing that we can use to enhance student engagement is case study.
Another way that we can enhance student engagement is through "gamification",
where the entire classroom setting is set up kind of like a video game,
where all the students start off at zero points, then as they do projects or homework or quizzes,
they accumulate points, in which they can "level up".
As they level up, they can achieve stickers that they can use in the future for things like where they may need more time,
so they can turn in an assignment late, or drop an assignment.
In promoting student success, one of the things that we attempt to do
is align the classroom standards with employer expectations.
What we operationalize that as, for example, time management is important to employers and the fact that employees show up on time.
So, if a student is going to be late, we have them call faculty and let them know that they're going to be late for class.
Another example is students are expected to perform as part of a team, when they're out caring for patients.
They have to work with police, fire and other members of the medical team.
In class, we have them work in groups on simulations, where they have to perform together as a cohesive group,
in order to achieve success
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