Monmouth’s Early Warning System (MEWS)
Keeping Students on Track!
Goal of the Program:
Monmouth’s Early Warning System (MEWS) is used to monitor academic progress of specific student groups.
MEWS has been operating since fall 1989. This computerized based program provides a timely approach to monitoring and identifying students who are experiencing academic difficulty and connecting them to their academic advisors.
Student populations being
monitored
Currently, the populations being monitored include:
- all freshmen
- all athletes
- all undeclared sophomores
- all students with disabilities
- all students participating in the Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF) program
- all students identified by the Academic Standards and Review Committee (ASRC)
How MEWS works
- MEWS is an electronic checklist located on WebAdvisor that faculty members can use to notify academic advisors that their advisees in the MEWS population are experiencing academic difficulty. (Please see Quick Links at left.)
- When a faculty member electronically submits the MEWS checklist both the advisor and student are notified by email. Advisors receive the checklist information and are encouraged to reach out to the student. Students do not receive the checklist information but are advised to contact their academic advisor to discuss difficulties they might be having in a specific course and to work on strategies to overcome those difficulties.
- MEWS is administered twice a semester. MEWS notifications are electronically sent:
- at the start of the semester after drop-add, and
- at mid-semester after midterms.
- Only faculty members who have students in their classes who are in the MEWS population are sent notification. Faculty members are advised to go to WebAdvisor to complete the MEWS checklist for each student.
- It is important to note that a checklist must be completed for each student on the faculty member's MEWS roster. If a student is not having problems, the faculty member must check the box “no problem.”
- Each of the MEWS reporting periods has a deadline and a report must be submitted on each student on the MEWS roster before the deadline.
- To be a successful and effective program, we must have 100% of the MEWS rosters submitted with a report on each student. This includes reporting students with no problems.
We thank you for your continued cooperation.
Dr. James Mack, Professor of Biology and Director of the MEWS Program
