Early Alert Program
The Early Alert Program is designed to identify students who may be at risk of academic difficulty or failure as early as possible.
A basic assumption of the Early Alert Program is that the course instructor will have made an attempt to help a poor-performing student before making a referral. These attempts include:
1. Meetings before or after class to ascertain what is blocking the student’s progress.
2. Email or phone communications to reach the student who is not attending class.
3. Messages on quizzes, tests or assignments, etc. inviting the student in for consultation.
The program allows faculty/staff to alert the Student Development Center of any student who is not making satisfactory progress and/or is exhibiting behaviors that may lead to academic difficulty (i.e. non-attendance) and previous attempts to connect or discuss these situations with student have gone unanswered.
Faculty are encouraged to make an Early Alert Program referral within seventy-two (72 ) hours after an unsuccessful response from student to initial inquiries. If situation is urgent, contact the Student Development Center immediately at (608) 246-6076.
Once a student is referred to the Early Alert Program, the assigned Learning Success Advisor and/or appropriate academic support personnel will attempt to contact and work with the student in an effort to improve the student’s academic performance and opportunity for success at Madison College.
Student retention and persistence to graduation are central to the mission of the Student Development Center and Madison College. Research shows that early intervention with students at-risk for failure is key to their academic success. Their academic success through our interventions may ensure their retention and persistence to graduation.
**NOTE the Early Alert form uses a database in PeopleSoft. If you are currently signed on to your Faculty Center, you will need to record the necessary information (student name, ID number, program of study, class number) from your class roster, sign off, then complete an early alert form. We are working to integrate this into Faculty Center but for now, they are separate and require separate signons.***