Early Alert Program

– Designed as a timely intervention for students who are having academic difficulty at any point during the academic semester.

Quick Referral Guide for Faculty and Staff

The social, personal, and academic demands of college can place enormous stress on students. To help students stay fully engaged in the educational process and meet Milligan University standards, the University has numerous means of identifying students who might be struggling. If you are concerned about a student, please review the options below to connect with the appropriate resource for your student.

Reasons for Concern:

Attendance or Academic Performance

If your concern about a student is based solely on attendance or academic performance, please complete and submit a form. We will reach out to the student, offer support and resources, and follow up with you.

As appropriate, we may consult the student’s academic advisor. Please be aware that we are able to provide more effective support when we are able to connect with the student earlier in the semester.

Academic Performance or Personal

If your concern about a student is about more than attendance or minor academic concerns, please send an email to studentsuccess@milligan.edu with your observations.

Examples of this could include a student’s disclosure of the following: family concerns and/or emotional concerns impacting their functioning, or observable changes in appearance or behavior, sleeping in class, etc. Please be as thorough as possible when communicating an early alert.

Complex Personal and/or Serious

If your concern about a student is even more serious, you can refer directly to the Director of Student Success housed within the Student Development Office.

Examples of this could include a student’s disclosure of the following: thoughts of suicide, interpersonal violence, or other safety concern that may need immediate attention.

Emergency:
If you are concerned about the immediate safety of a member of the Milligan Family, you should call Milligan University Security at 423.461.8911 or 911.

Frequently Asked Questions

HOW DOES AN EARLY ALERT HELP FACULTY?

Early Alert assists faculty in partnering with campus resources to best assist students in academic difficulty who are in need of additional support on campus. Early Alert is an added layer to the efforts of the professor to contact and offer aid to a student.

HOW DOES AN EARLY ALERT HELP STUDENTS?

Early Alert helps students by connecting them to useful resources that will support them in their current situation. Efforts will be made to personally reach out to students by campus partners. Those partners consist of residence hall staff, academic advisors and student success office staff.

WHAT IS EARLY ALERT?

Early Alert is a tool designed to provide faculty with an easy way to partner with other campus professionals to reach out to students who have academic related concerns within the classroom once other methods of outreach have been unsuccessful.

Areas of concern include:
Multiple missing assignments
Poor class performance (exams, assignments, projects, etc.)
Difficulty comprehending course material
Poor class attendance

CAN I SUBMIT MULTIPLE EARLY ALERTS ON A STUDENT DURING THE SEMESTER?

Yes. As the semester progresses, if there is no improvement or new issues arise, please submit another early alert.

Tutoring Resources

To further aid our students with academic support we offer peer tutoring in various courses. If you recognize a need for a new tutoring area, please send an email to studentsuccess@milligan.edu.

Tutoring Schedule