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Rosemary Carr Honored for Supporting First-Year Students

Rosemary King Carr Prescott, Ariz., March 24, 2004 -- Rosemary King Carr, director of Student Success Programs at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Prescott campus, has been recognized nationally as an Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate.

The award is given annually by the University of South Carolina's National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition and Houghton Mifflin Publishing Co. She was one of 10 honorees recognized Feb. 22 in Addison, Texas, at the USC resource center's annual conference.

At Embry-Riddle, Carr advises students on academics, teaches University 101: College Success, a transition course for first-year students, and organizes orientation programs for new students and their parents. She was also instrumental in developing and implementing the campus's New Student Convocation, the culminating event of New Student Orientation.

Carr has received the Embry-Riddle Presidential Award for Innovation four times. In 1994, she won for streamlining the registration process for students. In 1997, she won for enhancing New Student Orientation and creating a Parent Track for parents of incoming students. In 1999, she won for her publication Destination Success, Your Guide to Academic Success.

In 2001, she won for her revision of the University 101: College Success course, which involved upper-level peer mentors as the primary instructors, making it possible for 225 more students to complete the course.

As the chair of the Faculty Senate's academic advisement committee from 1995-97, Carr restructured academic advising and created an advising center staffed with faculty and professional staff advisors. The center's primary focus is on first-year students. The program received an Outstanding Institutional Advising Program Award from the National Academic Advising Association in 1998.

Embry-Riddle, the world's largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, meets the needs of students and industry through its educational, training, research, and consulting activities. Embry-Riddle educates more than 28,000 students annually through the master level at residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz., through the Extended Campus at more than 130 teaching centers in the United States and Europe, and worldwide through distance learning.