Teresa Farnum & Associates

Academic Progress Rate Assessment

Is your athletic program in jeopardy of losing scholarships, or do you want to ensure that your Academic Progress Rate continues to meet NCAA criteria?  In either case, an external look at your strengths, challenges, and opportunities is invaluable in setting and staying the course.

Here’s how it works:

  1. Following a conversation with you about your campus and issues related to success and retention, we customize a list of materials for you to send TFA to help prepare for an effective on-site consultation. We also discuss what meetings will be most helpful in promoting our understanding of the current and desired state of your institution’s success and retention of athletes and develop an itinerary.
  2. Teresa Farnum personally conducts an on-site day of meetings with faculty, staff, coaches, administrators, and student athletes.
  3. On the second morning on campus, Farnum leads a discussion utilizing a campus-customized PowerPoint exit presentation that includes:

    Five top priority recommendations for action that will have the greatest impact on success and retention of your athletes

  4. Farnum spends 15 minutes outlining how your campus and TFA might work together to achieve your academic success, retention, and graduation goals.
  5. You receive the slide presentation to begin work on the recommendations immediately.
  6. Within ten business days TFA sends you a written executive summary.

Your Next Step

Schedule a live phone conversation via e-mail (tfarnum@teresafarnum.com) with Teresa Farnum to start the steps above and schedule the dates!

Fee: $3,500 plus travel expenses


APR Assessment Draft Itinerary

The following itinerary is designed as a starting point and will vary, depending upon the availability of participants and the circumstances that are unique to your campus

Time Meeting
Day One
 7:00 a.m. Breakfast with the campus contact
 8:00 –8:45 a.m. Director of Athletics
 9:00–9:30 a.m. President
 9:30–10:30 a.m. Compliance staff
10:45–11:15 a.m. Vice President for Academic Affairs
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Lunch with 10-12 student athletes
 1:00–2:15 p.m. Coaches 
 2:15–3:15 p.m. Academic support staff (learning center, career planning, tutoring, etc.)
 3:30–4:30 p.m. Faculty (10-12)
 4:45 p.m. Director of Athletics or
Day Two
10:00 a.m. Presentation and discussion of the findings and recommendations
Suggested campus attendees are president, athletic director, coaches and other leaders as appropriate
11:00 a.m. Fifteen-minute presentation of a possible customized partnership with TFA to assist in increasing success, retention, and graduation rates of athletes
11:15 a.m. Debrief with Director
11:30 a.m. Depart campus