Make the Most of MAP-Works® with On-Campus Training and Consulting
Our on-campus training and consulting helps you deploy MAP-Works® to maximize its effectiveness on your campus. Education professionals who are trained in MAP-Works and successfully utilizing MAP-Works on their campuses facilitate these sessions to help you fully understand the program’s potential. Benefitting from the practical experience of another user, your campus will receive the personalized support and assistance needed to implement MAP-Works successfully. Your MAP-Works trainer will provide external, objective expertise to engage campus stakeholders, refocus goals, provide an unbiased view of issues and establish a sense of accountability on your campus.
Since 2007, Mary Jo Gonzales has led retention and intervention efforts as the Associate Dean of Students at Iowa State University. In her 15 years of higher education experience, Mary Jo has led efforts in student success, advising, new student/orientation, first-year experience, diversity, assessment, mentoring, and leadership.
Mary Jo has been instrumental throughout the past four years in developing a strategic MAP-Works implementation plan on the Iowa State campus, which includes training staff to effectively use MAP-Works in direct support and advising roles, securing campus-wide engagement from faculty and staff, and promoting MAP-Works to critical campus constituencies.
Mary Jo earned her Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from San Jose State University, her Master of Arts in Communication from Washington State University, and her Doctorate in Education from Washington State University.
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Jennifer Schriver is the Associate Vice President for Student Success at Indiana State University. Prior to assuming this position in 2009, she served as Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. Jennifer is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology.
As Associate Vice President for Student Success, Jennifer is responsible for initiatives that impact student persistence and graduation. Jennifer oversees the Student Academic Services Center, which provides academic advising, tutoring, mentoring and disability services. She is also highly involved with the first-year experience, including recruitment programs, learning communities, and the summer reading program.
Jennifer has served as the campus coordinator for MAP-Works at Indiana State University for the past two years. In the campus’s first year of using MAP-Works, students who participated in MAP-Works saw a 4% higher first-year retention rate compared to non-participants. Additionally, increased communication occurred between faculty, academic advisors, and residential life staff around issues relevant to student success. MAP-Works is helping Indiana State move toward a culture of early intervention with students.
Jennifer earned her Bachelor of Arts in psychology and sociology from Simpson College, her Master of Arts in clinical psychology from East Carolina University, and her Doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Alabama.
Kathleen Gardner has served as the Associate Director for Residence Life at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville since June 2005 and is the MAP-Works Campus Coordinator for SIUE. University Housing partners with Academic Advising, Athletics, Disability Support Services, and the SOAR Office to implement MAP-Works.
Kathleen has worked in student affairs for 15 years and previously held positions at Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Maryland, and the Illinois Institute of Technology. Kathleen’s ACPA leadership experience includes Chair of the Commission for Housing and Residential Life; Co-chair, Presidential Taskforce on Sustainability; Commission for Housing and Residential Life Directorate Body Member; and Secretary of the Illinois CPA. Her professional interests include assessment, sustainability in higher education, and residential curriculums.
Kathleen received her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and her Master of Education in College Student Personnel from the University of Maryland.
Mehgan Clark is an academic advisor for the Student Support Services (SSS) program, a federal TRiO program, at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. The SSS program uses MAP-Works to assess participants’ academic and transitional needs as part of satisfying the federal guidelines. She advises education and science students and coordinates the Learning Communities in SSS, and has served on the First Year Experience Advisory Committee as an ad hoc member. Mehgan has also been involved in the Give Students a Compass Project, a multi-state university initiative that concentrates on the success of students traditionally underrepresented in higher education.
Additionally, Mehgan serves on the campus-wide MAP-Works oversight committee and is one of the Campus Coordinators. She works closely with the Undergraduate Advising Resource Center to help guide advisor usage of MAP-Works in intrusive advising practices. UW Oshkosh recently found that commuter students who take MAP-Works have significantly higher fall-semester GPAs than those who do not complete MAP-Works.
Mehgan received her Bachelors in Biology from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point and her Master of Arts in Biological Sciences from Western Illinois University.
Jason Bentley serves as both the Director for First-Year Experience and Special Projects for Academic Affairs and as the Assistant Director of Residence Life at Central Michigan University.
As the Director for First-Year Experience, Jason works closely with faculty and staff to assess and facilitate student learning and monitor persistence from enrollment to degree completion. He coordinates faculty and staff development opportunities, directs the university’s early alert and intervention practices (including MAP-Works initiatives), and leads academic success coaching and peer mentoring initiatives. Jason also coordinates first-year seminars which serve 1,600 new students each year through in-person, hybrid and online course delivery. Since he joined CMU in this capacity, first-to-second year persistence has increased by nearly 5 percent.
Jason holds a Bachelor of Science in Education with concentrations in Renaissance History and Earth Science, a Master of Arts in Education with a concentration in community and non-profit leadership, and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership (December 2011).
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Available Programs
On-Campus Training
- Train your Direct-Connects® to efficiently and effectively use the MAP-Works platform
- Empower Direct-Connects to better understand student transition needs
- Explore how to use MAP-Works in individual student interventions
- Develop an effective ongoing training and support plan
On-Campus Consulting
- Multiple consultant visits
- Advice on appropriate student data to upload into MAP-Works
- Assistance with development of an effective training plan
- Guidance on strategies to encourage high survey response rates
- Advice on how to integrate MAP-Works into existing campus programs
- Recommendations on how to utilize MAP-Works data to address specific campus issues
- Assistance with the development of initiatives to intervene with at-risk students
- Analysis of outcomes reports
- Premier Package: Three 1 ½ day visits
- Standard Package: Two 1 ½ day visits