Student Educational Advancement

SEA Holds its First All-Staff Retreat to Enhance Cluster Concept and to Foster Divisional Cohesiveness

May 2003

A day-long staff retreat for all Student Educational Advancement (SEA) personnel was held April 23 to foster a better understanding of key SEA objectives among staffers, including the Educational Continuum cluster concept, the Best Practices 70-20-10 approach and other current and future activities.

With the newly introduced SEA Educational Continuum banner serving as an appropriate backdrop, SEA staffers met in the Green Room at UCSD’s RIMAC facility to discuss ways in which SEA’s various outreach units could better pool resources and support each other toward common goals. To further enhance discussion, staff members were later divided into small and medium group sessions in locations throughout RIMAC to brainstorm action plans toward these objectives, including how technology can be implemented within the cluster to expand and improve the range of student services through coordinated activities and approaches. Each individual group later reported its planning outcome recommendations before the entire retreat gathering, and these recommendations were noted for future action.

SEA staffers also heard addresses by Shirley Weber, Ph.D., chair of the CHUM Community Advisory Board, who spoke on the importance of SEA becoming more actively involved in enhancing college preparation for area students, and by Joseph Watson, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, on the SEA cluster concept.

The retreat was directed and hosted by Loren Thompson, assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, who plans to make the gathering an annual SEA event to further enhance cluster planning and cohesiveness.

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