4 Steps to Combat "Initiative Fatigue" in Support of Student Success
Four steps will help you combat "initiative fatigue" to better support student success initiatives on your campus.
Nancy Millichap is a program officer with EDUCAUSE. The organization makes grants aimed at dramatically increasing college completion through applied technology, most often funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Nancy is among the nationally distributed members of the EDUCAUSE staff, working from her home office in Saline, Michigan. Before joining EDUCAUSE in 2011, she worked at the intersection of technology and learning in several other contexts: the humanities division at Dartmouth College, colleges and universities in Indiana collaborating to use data networks in the early days of online courses, small colleges in the Midwest sharing instructional technology resources, and liberal arts colleges nationally integrating professional development for faculty and staff to use technology effectively in the academic program. She completed her undergraduate degree in education at Shippensburg University and received the M.A. in English from Middlebury College.
Four steps will help you combat "initiative fatigue" to better support student success initiatives on your campus.
Read about the takeaways from an online event hosted by the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative that explored student success initiatives, particularly those that involve technology-enabled advising.
Too many new initiatives, too many different directions, not enough time; colleges can end initiative fatigue with these four steps.