Strategy 1.1.2 (Annual Assessments)

Conduct annual assessments to identify areas for improvement and to inform Student Success retention plan; ensure data is disaggregated to allow for a deeper understanding of differences in outcomes for underrepresented and underserved students.

Owners/Accountable Party

  • Vice Provost for Student Success and Campus Life
  • Associate Vice Provost for Student Success

Actions

Near-term Actions

  • Perform climate survey to inform improvements to military-affiliated students’ experiences
  • Administer UM Housing Survey in Fall 2023
  • Refine and implement Peer Retention Programming curriculum
  • Track underrepresented student enrollment in 15 or more credits per semester. Conduct post priority registration course load audit each semester and communicate to students with fewer than 15 total registered credits.
  • Update Campus Pride Index
  • Present most recent Climate Survey results to key Student Success Offices to facilitate program design
  • Expand reach of Learning Assistants and mentorship of faculty teaching high DFW rate courses
  • Launch Healthy Minds statewide survey

Future Actions

Completed and Ongoing Actions

  • Launched equity dashboard to track and develop strategies for improving historically underserved student outcomes – currently focuses on Native American populations but will be expanded to include BIPOC students
  • Implemented annual review of EAB Navigate data and developed Success Markers to proactively influence student academic progress
  • Launched EAB Navigate predictive model to inform intervention best practices
  • Tracking retention and graduation rates, by populations
  • Administering regularly occurring assessments across Student Success units
  • SARC administering Climate Survey (Safe Campus Survey) on a three-year cycle
  • MT10 students surveyed each semester
  • Office of Disability Equity focus groups conducted, leading to efforts to improve training on assistive technology
  • UM Housing survey administered Fall 2022
  • Utilizing disaggregated racial/ethnic data of graduate students to engage more BIPOC students in cultural events and groups
  • Continuing to expand Learning Assistants program through Flagship Fund award
  • Using Flagship Fund award to support faculty teaching high DFW courses and to provide additional training
  • Developed DFW dashboard with relevant indicators to identify underrepresented students
  • Tutoring services in OSS regularly reviewing equity dashboard and other data sources to assess proportional utilization of available services. Based on findings, working with relevant campus student support partners and faculty to ramp up outreach and promotion of services to underrepresented and students and as well as to offer academic support services "where students are"  
  • Developed peer retention programming and launched in Fall 2022
  • Completed Campus Pride Index Fall 2022 with a 3.5 star rating