GOAL 2: RETENTION
Invest in strategies and High-Impact Practice programs and services that foster exceptional persistence, superior achievement and timely graduation for all students, with a particular focus on narrowing the gap between underrepresented students and the overall student body.
Strategies
- Radically and invasively review/enhance policies and procedures to positively impact student persistence to graduation.
- Promote and institutionalize activities and services to ensure nationally recognized increases in graduation rates.
- Create a cutting edge centralized academic support services center to provide tutoring, writing support and research support for students.
- Create invasive efforts to enhance retention, progress towards degree completion, and graduation rate aimed at decreasing achievement gaps among students from first-generation, low-income, underrepresented, and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds.
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| Strategies | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | |
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| 1. Radically and invasively review/enhance policies and procedures to positively impact student persistence to graduation: | ||||||
| 1A | Review policies and procedures |
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| 1B | Transition to student centered-processing of forms |
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| 2. Promote and institutionalize activities and services to ensure nationally recognized increases in graduation rates: | ||||||
| 2A | Expand and enhance transition programs |
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| 2B | Expand first-year experiences for freshman and transfer students |
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| 2C | Create phenomenal professional development opportunities |
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| 3. | Create a cutting edge centralized academic support services center to provide tutoring, writing support and research support for students. |
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| 4. Create invasive efforts to enhance retention, progress towards degree completion, and graduation rate aimed at decreasing achievement gaps among students from first-generation, low-income, underrepresented, and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds: | ||||||
| 4A | Establish the Male Success Initiative |
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| 4B | Establish a support center and support for AB540 and undocumented students |
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| 4C | Strengthen and adequately provide resources for the Diversity Education Initiatives |
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| 4D | Establish a center for students participating in select scholarship programs |
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| 4E | Create a centralized process for students to apply to internal and external scholarship opportunities |
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