Why Summer Session?

Good morning.

I'd like to welcome you to our.

Presentation this morning from CSU summer.

Called why summer?

And.

Discuss how summer session can be a contributor to your student success.

You give me just one minute here. We're having a little bit of an issue with the share screen. OK, I think I'm back. I apologize for that.

So I am an van Arsdale. I am the director of CSU Summer and in our office we manage the summer session as well as support the summer programs and some of you may have participated in a summer program at CSU as a high school student or younger. Ellen oddly is also on the call. She is the coordinator for CSU Summer and both of us can be reached at csusummer@colostate.edu.

We are working remotely right now, so that's the best way to reach us and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. As we're going through the presentation though, please do feel free to put questions in the chat and Ellen will moderate those and we'll have time at the end for question and answer as well.

Next, I want to share with you a video that we have put together for CSU summer and it just gives you the vibe of CSU summer and there's a lot presented here so feel free to just watch and engage with it. And if there's something that I don't address in the video that you saw, please do feel free to ask at the end because there's a lot going on and we want you to again kind of get the full effect of our summer session.

Great so again, lots going on in summer, both on campus and in our community through study abroad programs and even from wherever you might be in the summer. We do have online classes as well, so there gonna talk about summer enrollment and how it can contribute to student success as well as some of the other benefits of summer sessions. I'm going to share with you a brand new program that we have for some participating majors called Accelerated programs where you can actually use summer to graduate early. I'm going to share with you also summer logistics and the costs of summer and financial.

Aiden will have time for discussion at the end.

So first of all, summer session is a very normal experience at CSU. Nearly 8000 undergraduates take a summer course each year, and so 60% or three out of five students take a CSU summer at Session course at some point. So they're not all students take classes every summer, but most of them take at least one class over their time at CSU.

An undergraduate is typically averaged 5 to 6 credits in a summer, so it's not a big load, it's just a chance to take a little bit here and there to stay on track for graduation. Get us caught up on credits or get ahead on credits, and usually it's a lighter load.

So our institutional research planning an effective knice office, also did a study about summer session and found that comparing students who took some recession and those who did not summer term GPA's, tend to be higher two compared to the average fall and spring GPA about 3:07 in the summer compared to 2.9 in the fall and spring. And then if students participate in summer we tend to see also higher retention and graduation rates.

The higher retention we typically see, actually after the first year. So as you're moving into your first year at CSU, think about summer session for next summer weather. That's on line or on campus, because that might just give you that connection to stay with CSU over the summer and stay connected to your faculty and fellow students, and then also for graduation rates. The second year. The second summer seemed to be most highly associated with higher graduation rates, so summer session is not required for students. We have obviously lots and lots of students that graduate and retain.

Without participating in summer session, but in some cases it can be really useful and we're going to get into some of those benefits here in just a second, you can look at the full research brief at that web link on our institutional research planning and effectiveness website is. He's like 2.

So some of the educational benefits. It is an opportunity to improve GPA. Not only do we have higher average summer GPS and fallen Springs, but if you need to retake a course or just concentrate on one course that you anticipate being more difficult for you, summer is a great time because you can concentrate on just one or two classes at a time and have more focus.

Um also the condensed format of summer means really a fast start and very consistent pace, which allows for deeper learning as well.

The smaller classes do allow you to better connect with faculty, have enhanced classroom discussions whether that's online or in person and connect more easily with other students for study, group groups and for questions and working on projects.

It's also a great opportunity to explore new interests, so take a class that maybe doesn't fit into your fontspring. Add a major change a major at a concentration or a minor, and then also to gain some really cool experiences. We have summer internships and research study abroad and lots of experiential learning and field studies, particularly at our CSU Mountain campus. And I think you saw that in the video there.

There is also time saving benefits so it can accelerate your time to graduation or allow you to stay on track. So we do have students that you know may fall behind a couple of credits in a particular semester. Maybe they changed a major and they need to get caught up so summer is again that opportunity to grab a couple of credits and get caught up so that by the end of your first year you can be at that 30 credits prior to moving into.

Your sophomore year as an example. You can also lighten your load in future semesters so you're studying abroad in a far spring semester. In that semester, you're probably going to take only 12 credits instead of the typically recommended 15 to 16 credits. So if you take 3 credits in the summer ahead of time and that will allow you to take that lighter load in the study abroad term without having that impact, your pace to graduation at all.

Summer classes typically don't have very large waitlists or weightless at all, so sometimes you'll really want to class in a far spring that's really popular and and fills up, and so you have to sit there on the wait list. So what I would recommend is be looking ahead to the next summer and see if you can get into that class sooner rather than wait for another term.

The financial benefits of summer so students can actually save money by graduating on time, because if they graduate later, it can require additional living and educational expenses.

And if you start work earlier or as planned, you can also earn that professional salary earlier or move on to that graduate program and make progression to your career earlier and all that has a cumulative effect overtime.

If tuition increases, it increases in the fall and financial aid is available in the summer and I have a whole slide about financial aid that I want to share with you.

Summer employment is also available and widely available in the summer, both on campus and in our local community, and they are very flexible with our summer students. Realizing that there might be a time where students are taking a lot of credits and so they can't work very much. Or there might be a different period within this summer session where they're not taking any credits or not very many at all and have more availability to work. So it's really flexible. And then we also have prorated student housing and dining.

So usually one of our residence halls is devoted to our summer students and you pay for only that duration of time that you're there. So let's say that you only want to take classes in the first four weeks of summer. You would only need to stay there and pay for that, if that's if that's what you needed. Likewise, if you had a lease that was starting in a local apartment or house situation that didn't start till July 1st or August 1st, you could stay in that residence Hall for only the time that you needed and pay for that time.

I also want to share with you our brand new accelerated program opportunity which is really available just to our newest CSU students, and so these programs are an opportunity for students to simply participate in summer every year and graduate in three years. These are our current programs of study that are participating in this program, and so these departments are committing to offering classes in a particular academic.

Plan that students can take each summer and rely on to be offered each summer and you're acting like visor can help you work with that plan too, because we do realize students bring in credits and sometimes they can't follow a plan exactly. But we can work with you on that. So nearly all the concentrations in business administration.

Communication studies economics. All of the concentrations in human development and family studies.

Interdisciplinary liberal arts International Studies journalism media communication mathematics. Both the general and the education, concentration and natural resource tourism as well as psychology so you can learn more at acceleratedprograms.colostate.edu to find links to these programs, their advisors, their academic plans in most cases, and more hopefully will be added in the future. We do realize that it is a need for some of our students too.

Graduate more quickly and finish after that third year or that third summer after the junior year. So so we're hoping that students will take advantage of this new opportunity.

This is what our summer term looks like. So as you can see we have lots of different options within the summer term. We have 3 four week Sessions, 28 week sessions that do overlap in the middle. So students do need to be aware that that's going to be more condensed, period of study there in the middle and then we have an 8 week term that runs the whole summer or sorry 12 we turn that runs a whole summer and then some classes that are varying lengths and even weekend courses. So this will include.

On line as well as on campus and hybrid courses for summer 21. That is our plan. Currently, as we know in this day and age things can change, but we will certainly have online in the plan is to have on campus experiences for students over the summer. We really want students in that research in the field doing, you know, really interesting work and connecting with their students and faculty in person as much as possible.

So with that we have over 1700 course sections available each summer, so a wide variety of classes for students to choose from.

And registration typically begins the Tuesday right after spray.

Break for students.

On our website summergotcolostate.edu there are a lot of different resources that you can check out now and next year. As you're looking forward to your first summer as a continuing CSU student in our summer session.

So if you look at our courses at a glance Interactive course listing now you would see which courses were offered in summer 2020. And the nice thing about that is you can search by course by summer term. So like you know a 48 or 12 week class, you can search by the delivery type, the online delivery type in particular, and a UCC courses. So it will kind of give you a feel of what is typically offered each summer. Also, the benefits that I'm talking about today are listed there in a why summer page.

We will have the summer 2021 tuition, fees and tables are tuition and fees. Tables posted as soon as they are available right now you would see this summer 20 tuition and fees, but typically pushing fees follow the fall and spring that were set.

Um, there are different tuition assessment deadlines posted all about our financial aid. Again, that's going to be updated ahead of Summer 2021. We're still working on some finalizations there.

Our summer candle, a calendar. And then there's also some summer only resources for the guests of CSU who choose to take classes who are not yet admitted as CSU students. And then we have some events there as well.

Other resources for student success, in particular, are links to the jobs and job postings, links to the housing, including off campus housing. So for off campus housing even today. Actually for our currency, as you students, there is a roommate Roundup virtual fair happening where students can connect with other CSU students to start talking about their summer needs for summer 2021. And then there's a filter on the off campus housing website so students can look for.

Housing in the community specifically for the summer.

We share a lot of resources for excelling in summer session, so again the summer session could be a great time to focus on one or a few classes and improve that GPA. However, when you're taking a 16 week course in 12, eight or four weeks, there are some challenges there as well. So we have a lot of resources to help students plan ahead for that more rapid and consistent pace in the summer, and lots of resources for tutoring and so forth. And I'm going to show you some of those on the next.

One of the next slides here.

We do also offer a workshop every spring and this past year and probably this upcoming year. It will be virtual where we talk specifically about learning strategies for Excel in those condensed terms.

There's lots of programs also for admitted students, including study abroad, including the Mountain Campus, course experiences and research, and then a lot of resources that are available for student support in this summer, particularly offices, whether you're accessing them virtually or in person, the campus does not close down in the summer, so our advisors are here. Your faculty are here. All the student service offices that you're learning about day and throughout this week during this orientation.

Are available in the summer, so you are not alone. You have a great support system. These are examples of some of those offices, some that are focused specifically on access and advising or for certain certain groups of students like our adult learners and veteran services. Students that would access those services as well as a lot of tutoring and content specific offices. You can see the chemistry learning.