Hrm 531 Week 2 Team Assignment

As I move through this semester I am learning more and more that teamwork is needed in almost every area of the student affairs profession. If you would have asked me a year ago to draft a conference proposal I would have said it only took one or two people to complete the task needed to submit a good proposal. The last month has changed this previous mindset though, as I have found it takes many dedicated individuals to help draft a good proposal. I decided to work with Rachael Kowbel who is the Director of Admission for the College of Dentistry and we drafted a proposal discussing how closed-door student panels affect incoming students in both a positive and negative way. Below this paper will discuss how the team was formed, my individual role on the team and how all of the information came together during the process. When the class was first given the assignment I knew I wanted to work outside of the HESA program and build a better relationship with professionals within my assistantship office. Rachael is a …show more content…
By our first meeting she had reached out to more students, staff and faculty to see their perspectives and had open questions ready for me at our meeting. She started asking questions like “how do we train panelists, but not coach them” and “How do we actually assess this”. These were questions I had not thought of and realized we would need solid way to assess that could actually “fact-check” if the information was right and if students were doing poorly in classes because of the student panel. We came together and said if we were to actually make this assessment it would be a qualitative survey given to all first years and it would ask them about the student panel, certain classes in general, and ask them to self-report their current grade and if they thought the student panel had negatively or positively affected that