{"id":4559,"date":"2016-04-18T07:13:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T11:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2016-05-08T18:18:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T22:18:15","slug":"new-academic-counselor-for-the-first-in-the-world-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2016\/04\/18\/new-academic-counselor-for-the-first-in-the-world-program\/","title":{"rendered":"New Academic Counselor for the \u201cFirst in the World\u201d Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4659 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/joanna-breitman-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"joanna breitman\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" \/>Please welcome Joanna Breitman to Farmingdale.<\/p>\n<p>Joanna is the new Academic Counselor in the \u201cFirst in the World\u201d Research-Aligned Mentorship program. She is responsible for working with first-year and transfer students to help improve their four-year graduation rates. Her duties include one-on-one counseling, tracking and monitoring student progress, connecting students with support services, teaching courses that focus on the first- and second-year college experience, and working on special events.<\/p>\n<p>Joanna has had previous experience working with at-risk students at Mercy College in the Bronx where, most recently, she held the position of associate director in the Personalized Achievement Contract (PACT) program.<\/p>\n<p>Under the direction of Dr. Beverly Kahn, Farmingdale\u2019s \u201cFirst in the World\u201d program is funded by a $2.9 million grant from the US Department of Education. It has a goal of improving four-year graduation rates by 20% over Farmingdale\u2019s baseline for first-year and transfer students. The program will support on-campus research and place faculty and students in mentored research experiences off campus in national laboratories, research universities, business accelerators, and other research venues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please welcome Joanna Breitman to Farmingdale. Joanna is the new Academic Counselor in the \u201cFirst in the World\u201d Research-Aligned Mentorship program. She is responsible for working with first-year and transfer students to help improve their four-year graduation rates. Her duties include one-on-one counseling, tracking and monitoring student progress, connecting students with support services, teaching courses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":4659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4667,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions\/4667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}