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Best Practices For Faculty/Staff
Generated by Eastern Faculty and Staff
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Provide a way for students in your major to receive
information in your departmental offices (i.e., mailboxes or
bulletin boards).
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Communicate with students in your major on a regular
basis—send letters before students arrive on campus, include
students in dept. newsletters, etc.
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Establish listservs for classes and/or majors to
help students make connections with other people with similar
interests.
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Contact students if they are absent a great deal
from class. Numerous absences may indicate that students are not serious
about staying at Eastern.
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Become involved with students outside of classroom
by attending student government, becoming an advisor for a student
organization, etc.
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If you are an advisor, contact students with
congratulatory letters when they make the deans list.
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Learn students’ names in your classes and call on
them by name.
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Hand out a student information sheet on the first
day of class to learn information about your students.
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Meet with students regarding their progress during
the semester.
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Be accessible—set and keep office hours, share
phone number and email address with students and advisees.
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Make students aware of academic support services
and refer individual students to specific services; encourage students
to make appointments with these support services while in your
office.
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If you do not know the answer to a student’s
question when he/she comes to your office, direct him/her to the
appropriate office (if you don’t know the appropriate office,
make a phone call or two to find out while the student waits).
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Make time for students; greet them with a smile, be
friendly, treat them as a person and not a number.
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