{"id":8666,"date":"2018-07-16T16:37:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T06:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/teaching@sydney\/?p=8666"},"modified":"2018-08-04T15:37:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T05:37:04","slug":"track-connect-is-back-in-semester-2-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/track-connect-is-back-in-semester-2-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Track &amp; Connect is back in semester 2, 2018!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do you coordinate a large, first-year undergraduate or postgraduate unit of study?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then sign up for the Track and Connect program as it is back again in semester 2, 2018, entering its twelfth cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Track and Connect is a <strong>proactive retention strategy<\/strong> designed to increase student engagement and success during the transition to tertiary study. It provides students with key information about support services and resources, while also providing detailed de-identified feedback and statistics for unit coordinators.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Track and Connect<\/strong> connects senior student callers\u00a0with first year students at three key points in the semester to track student progress. Callers gather feedback on the student experience and offer referrals to support services such as Financial Assistance, CAPS, the Learning Centre, and Disability Services.\u00a0All students in participating units are also provided with information about key dates and support resources via email.<\/p>\n<p>If you think that the Track and Connect program might be helpful to\u00a0your students and you\u2019d like more information about the program, <strong>please contact Nicola Gray, Student Retention Coordinator on\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:student.retention@sydney.edu.au\">student.retention@sydney.edu.au<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you coordinate a large, first-year undergraduate or postgraduate unit of study? Then sign up for the Track and Connect program as it is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1468,"featured_media":7433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,56,55],"tags":[269,86,267,104,87,50,294,268,295,265,266,64,264],"coauthors":[533],"class_list":["post-8666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fy-coordinators","category-news-events","category-sydney-updates","tag-academic-progression","tag-engagement","tag-faculty-support","tag-feedback","tag-first-year-experience","tag-learning-analytics","tag-proactive-retention-strategy","tag-statistics","tag-student-experience","tag-student-retention","tag-student-support-services","tag-students","tag-track-connect","post-item","post-even"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8666"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8855,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions\/8855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8666"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}