Restructuring Our Student Success Seminar with a QM Backbone: A Community Effort

Using QM Standards as a foundation, the Student Success Seminar (a required course for all freshmen) was redesigned to include more student interaction, engagement, individualization, choice, and support. We created an online shell that all courses, on and off campus, face-to-face or online, use so that sections being taught across the state would be consistent. We enlisted faculty and staff members, part-time instructors, community members, and students to help develop modular content and share their expertise. We also embedded a fulltime graduate assistant and a librarian to help students in the course.  Redesign managers were trained in the QM Rubric and in the Peer Review process to better utilize quality standards.