Endorsement by the faculty is also critical to the foundation of your student success course. Faculty support may include:

• Promoting the academic credibility of your course, recognizing its credit-worthiness, and taking appropriate action, if necessary, in the faculty senate or curriculum committee in order to get the course approved.
• Providing feedback to student success course instructors about student needs and/or deficiencies. Later, faculty can provide information about how your course is influencing student behavior.
• Speaking positively about your course to students, parents, administrators, and fellow faculty members.
• Taking part in a retention task force or orientation committee.
• Being directly involved through teaching, team teaching, or facilitating one or more sections.
• Participating in your course as a guest speaker.
• Reinforcing concepts and methods introduced in the student success course and incorporating them into individual disciplines.
• Referring students to your course (if the course isn't mandatory).

Here are some course benefits which may be of interest to the faculty:

• Teaching is more productive and enjoyable. Students are awake, active, responsible for their learning, and task-oriented. Students learn to "teach themselves."
• Students who acquire life-long learning skills have a greater appreciation for education and for the teachers who provide an opportunity for learning.
• Improved retention results in greater revenue and higher student numbers. This in turn can increase demand for faculty, create support to improve facilities, and in times of budget cuts enhance the security of teaching positions.
• Student success courses provide an unusual opportunity to interact with students on a personal level.
• More upper-division classes are available to teach due to the increased number of upper-class students.
• Faculty who teach this type of course enjoy additional benefits. Being a part of the exciting discoveries students make and observing changes in student attitudes can renew one's sense of what is possible in education.