Competition Out, Collaboration InSTART HERE. STAY HERE.

Diem Vo, Assistant for Partnership Programs

Ashley Weatherspoon,Director of Student Partnerships and Collaboration

Erin Harley, Paj Ntaub LeeAcademic Advisor Outreach Coordinator

History of partnership?• Partnership Center on the

Normandale Campus – • Opened 2013

Structure of our partnership• MnSCU Programs • MSU Mankato - 7• Metro State - 10• SMSU - 1

• Personnel• University faculty and staff• Assistant for Partnership Programs

• Share between all partners

Creating Successful Pathways for Students

Successes, what works• Connections

• Classroom visits• Meeting with Normandale advisors• Student to Student• Faculty to Faculty • Staff to Staff

• Exposure• TV Monitors • Partnership Website • Tabling • Normandale Events –

• Open House• Student Resource Fair• Transfer Fair

• Assistant for Partnership Programs• Pathway Planning

• DARS/Transcripts• Program Guides

• Plans events• Open House• Enrollment Fair• Orientation

• Forms and Resources• Partnership Website

Consistently partnering to be a cross-functional team

Lessons Learned and Moving Forward

• Adaptability• Advising structure at Normandale

• Different needs when transferring from a 2 year than a traditional freshman

• Styles vary between community college and university

• Adjusting to student needs• On campus orientation • Registration process

• Access to resources • Decision making power• New and different ways to do things • Side by side, can’t be forced by others

• Communication• Transitioning students • Workflow• Program guides • Back to home campus• Within Normandale

Working together, not against. Bringing MnSCU options to the Southwest Metro!

Questions

• Ashley.Weatherspoon@metrostate.edu• Diem.Vo@normandale.edu• Erin.Harley@mnsu.edu• Mai.Lee@mnsu.edu