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Make the goals a collaborate effort w/ faculty and college community. Create a monthly/semester plan with check-ins/benchmarks 

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Make the goals a collaborate effort w/ faculty and college community. Create a monthly/semester plan with check-ins/benchmarks 

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Limited number of students in specific majors can make programming difficult

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Connect with students to see what they need and assess if we are meeting those needs.

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Connect with students to see what they need and assess if we are meeting those needs.

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Across the board conversations that relate majors/academic coursework to career options and choices

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Across the board conversations that relate majors/academic coursework to career options and choices

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Determining Deadlines for each goal.  Review Objectives and progress toward them regularly. Assessing activity and whether there needs to be any changes or updates to the goals and objectives. 

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Determining Deadlines for each goal.  Review Objectives and progress toward them regularly. Assessing activity and whether there needs to be any changes or updates to the goals and objectives. 

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Share best practices and make adjustments to goals/initiatives as needed

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Track progress on a monthly/semester basis yet be flexible to navigate creative changes that can potentially benefit STEM students

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Track progress on a monthly/semester basis yet be flexible to navigate creative changes that can potentially benefit STEM students

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the myth that inherent capacity or talent determines a student's capacity for STEM

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the myth that inherent capacity or talent determines a student's capacity for STEM

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Students play a role in constantly reminding us, because the work that we do is for their betterment, and that serves as a key reminder and motivating factor.

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Spreading attainable goals/benchmarks throughout the academic year.

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Spreading attainable goals/benchmarks throughout the academic year.

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- Always important to write our goals down and set them somewhere visible to us
- Having a colleague be informed of what our goals are
- Creating benchmarks as part of the goals

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Set weekly, monthly goals that are self-led by advisement/faculty, then coming together as a group in professional development-type activities to correlate these smaller goals with the larger concern of increasing retention/graduation rate within ASAP/STEM.

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Systematic and consistent professional development and training/re-training

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Meet more often as a group; Share ideas and strategies; create realistic goals with deadlines 

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Meet more often as a group; Share ideas and strategies; create realistic goals with deadlines 

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Invite STEM departments to speak about their majors to our students

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Invite STEM departments to speak about their majors to our students

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Ensuring marketing, outreach and data collection and reporting is apart the conversations with leadership and staff. 

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Ensuring marketing, outreach and data collection and reporting is apart the conversations with leadership and staff. 

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More involvement of the career specialist. Having them facilitate major to career conversations. Also more networking opportunities for students to see people who look like them in the field of interest.

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Setting smaller achievable goals that are related to larger program STEM goals, engaging key program partners (advisors, faculty, CBO, etc.) to actively work on meeting goals

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Setting smaller achievable goals that are related to larger program STEM goals, engaging key program partners (advisors, faculty, CBO, etc.) to actively work on meeting goals

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Create opportunities for STEM students to engage EARLY in their ASAP timeline. STEM initiatives that start at recruitment.

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- Efforts to engage students should happen in the K-12 arena
- More workshops where students can learn from alum who successfully graduated with STEM degrees and how they navigated the terrain

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First, set realistic and achievable goals/objectives. Second, delegate key tasks based on the strengths of your team. Third, keep on task and create small internal deadlines to monitor progress.

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Continue conversations through monthly meetings/exchange of data

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Making sure to emphasize process over outcome

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Making sure to emphasize process over outcome

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Conversation with university leadership once problems occur

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Helping students voice concerns and doubts early on, and normalizing the questioning period

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Helping students voice concerns and doubts early on, and normalizing the questioning period

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Lack of intentional outreach to acquaint students with STEM opportunities

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Lack of intentional outreach to acquaint students with STEM opportunities

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Advocacy of continual professional development activities within STEM; conferencing with STEM instructors that have a positive reception amongst their students; being clear with the expectations, opportunities of the STEM major upon a student's admittance.

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Student making decisions on majors without really knowing what it entails. As soon as difficulty arises in the major they are ready to quit.

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Student making decisions on majors without really knowing what it entails. As soon as difficulty arises in the major they are ready to quit.

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Institutional barriers/limitations

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Engage our STEM alumni more intentionally

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Prioritizing conversations with stake holders to ensure the budget for STEM initiatives are robust.

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Prioritizing conversations with stake holders to ensure the budget for STEM initiatives are robust.

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Working with our college leadership to ensure collaboration from STEM faculty

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STEM faculty disconnect - experience in field but lack of knowledge on teaching 

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STEM faculty disconnect - experience in field but lack of knowledge on teaching 

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Working to overcome known challenges - engaging with students frequently and keeping abreast of national trends and opportunities 

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Working to overcome known challenges - engaging with students frequently and keeping abreast of national trends and opportunities 

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Students' preparation to take and succeed in college level Math and Science classes 

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Students' preparation to take and succeed in college level Math and Science classes 

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Poll students to find out what their needs are and how/where they would like to be supported. 

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Poll students to find out what their needs are and how/where they would like to be supported. 

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Better STEM preparation starting before entry into college (K-12). Especially in High School.

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Collaborative initiatives that create bridges

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Collaborative initiatives that create bridges

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Having faculty (specifically professors) on board to assist students to meet their needs

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There is growing disengagment among students in K-12 and higher education spaces. More students are opting to take gap years, be entrepreneurs, enter into the work force. It makes it more challenging to convince students of the long term benefits of earning a STEM degree even if the interest or curiosity is slightly there

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Increase opportunities for STEM mentorship

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Consistency and quality of conversations with the appropriate advisement representatives being an issue

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Frequent conversations with colleagues about the challenges and brainstorming ideas

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Frequent conversations with colleagues about the challenges and brainstorming ideas

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Engage our full team and share data regularly

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Students are not taking advantage of the resources available to them.

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Students are not taking advantage of the resources available to them.

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Locate open-minded and student-centered faculty, staff, or administrations to work with.

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Lack of funding for additional resources.

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Lack of funding for additional resources.

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Poor preparation and not knowing needs of students

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Changing educational landscape - instructional modality - access to resources

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Changing educational landscape - instructional modality - access to resources

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Spaces to have conversations with students around the relativity of their majors

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Spaces to have conversations with students around the relativity of their majors

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Faculty not interested in engaging with students outside the classroom or always expect compensation for their time.

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Not knowing the specific needs of our students. 

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Not knowing the specific needs of our students. 