Our commitment is Students First.
PSU believes that students succeed when caring faculty and staff connect them to the opportunity and support they need to experience the transformative power of a college education. We realize Ãå±±½ûµØ commitment to student success when our students achieve their goals. Our commitment will be measured by ensuring students:
- Experience learning outcomes that embody the skills and knowledge integral to success;
- Maintain credit momentum, earn essential credits, persist and graduate at higher rates and attain degrees;
- Feel a sense of belonging and community at PSU and participate in an educational experience that prepares them to engage with real-world problems within our diverse communities;
- Connect to financial wellness support and education;
- Enjoy increased opportunities post-graduation, building careers or entering post-graduate programs
Supporting campus wide student success programs, projects, and initiativesÌý
Focus, strategy, change and continuous improvement for institutional transformationÌý
- Facilitate strategy development and the coordination and alignment of student success strategies across the institution
- Cross-campus project and initiative management for high-priority student success and experience effortsÌý
- Staff and participate in the organizational leadership body for student successÌý
- Create a network for cross-campus collaborations to leverage knowledge and resources
- Data + insights and the Student Voice
Research and identify insights, in partnership with OIRP, that support the deepening of our understanding and strategies related to retention and graduation enhancement opportunities
- Engage students directly in problem-posing and solution generation to enhance student success and the student experienceÌý
- Showcase the student voice → share back to students and to the broader campus community student. Ensure students are partners in our student success work.Ìý
- Assist campus with utilizing strategies and best practices for gathering and using student input and feedback
- Community college partnerships and academic transfer programs
Leadership and support for enhancing the community college transfer and returning student experience and success at PSU in partnerships with cross-campus partners
- Provide coordination, support, and guidance to the university and its transfer partner institutions in developing effective transfer agreements, pathways, programs, and supportive policies and procedures
- Leadership for the Transfer and Returning Student Center, including operational support and programming
Funding and external partnerships
- Work with external partners and funders to operationalize student success initiatives, including grants that support this work
- Help to disseminate the work that’s being done at PSU - locally, regionally and nationally