Organize weekly "Student Success Fridays" half-day professional development sessions

Two-year to four-yearappliesFour-year to two-yearappliesFour-year to four-yearapplies

Mechanism

A half day every week, campus-wide, for full-time and adjunct faculty to work on teaching problems together. Adjuncts are included, which is unusual and most of why it works.

Preconditions

Deans willing to clear Friday morning classes.

Owner, by role

Director of Professional Development

Who can act

One institution alone

Effort

Medium, 6 months to first visible effect

Outcome metric

Faculty attendance; referrals from class to tutoring

Failure modes

Sessions can lose relevance if topics do not address the practical daily challenges of teaching and advising diverse, part-time student populations.

Contra-indications

None stated

Related practices

LTI-CUL-024 Embed transfer-student success modules in new faculty onboarding