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Current Work

Academic Planning for Equitable Success

Ad Astra+AASCU will provide an opportunity to engage with colleagues from other schools who are interested in improving their approach to creating balanced, effective course schedules. It provides an opportunity to learn and discuss best practices and solutions. In addition, Ad Astra will provide technical and data analysis assistance in helping PSU and other participating institutions address this barrier through a process of preparing, reflecting, prioritizing, acting, and monitoring. The main goal of the Academic Planning for Equitable Success project is to address the course schedule barrier, close equity gaps, maximize resources, and improve efficiencies

Academic Supports

To provide academic support to students enrolled in courses with historically lower completion rates or courses considered to be large gateway STEM courses, the Office of Student Success and the Learning Center have collaborated to provide embedded academic support. ��For the purposes of this pilot, embedded academic support utilizes peer tutors to deliver high-quality academic support to students.

Academic Warning Workshop

This workgroup was formed to revise the existing Academic Warning Workshop. ��Looking carefully at student feedback, data trends, and success metrics, it was apparent that a redesign was essential to accomplish the workshop’s goals. ��The estimated launch of the new Academic Warning Workshop will be at the end of the summer 2023 term.
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Advising Assessment - NACADA Report

In an effort to improve the advising structure and services at PSU, Advising and Career Services (ACS) is engaging in an external program review led by fellows from the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) to ensure that ACS meets the needs of students and the institution.��

Classroom Experience Project

The purpose of this project is to develop and implement a holistic classroom evaluation process that is used consistently and broadly across PSU with the goal that each department would adopt and leverage this new classroom experience process. The project is currently piloting an updated classroom experience instrument to understand with the goal being to ensure that evaluation of the classroom experience is fair and transparent, useful, and includes input from faculty, instructors, and students.��

Data Sharing with PCC

This discovery project aims to discover a sustainable mechanism to share data and applications between Portland Community College (PCC) and �山�� (PSU) in an attempt to increase our transfer population and gain actionable insights. Additionally, this project aligns with and supports all of ��the HECC work related to the Major Transfer Maps and improved transfer pathway. We have been allocated a one-time grant fund of $200,000 to initiate this discovery project.��

Early Alerts

The Early Alerts workgroup is focused on increasing faculty participation in Early Alerts. The workgroup is focusing on how to close the loop with faculty each term, and how to best provide quarterly status reports. Additional work is being done to make Early Alerts data accessible so that it can be shared more regularly. The workgroup hopes to use information gathered from faculty outreach to provide a proposal by the end of the year that outlines the essential components for a sustainable Early Alerts program at PSU.

Emergency Aid Pilot

At PSU, there is not a streamlined, single process for students to request emergency aid. Current processes have different intake, eligibility, and access points which results in inequity. At times, a hardship request is completed, only to find that the student is not eligible based on their financial aid award. Meanwhile, multiple solutions (spreadsheets, paper forms, email, and databases) are used to move the request along. Finally, there is no visible centralized way for students to initiate a request. This project seeks to create a student-centered, equitable process that improves access, removes barriers and stigma, and fosters connection to campus supports and resources.��

EPIC@PSU

As part of the EPIC@PSU initiatives through the Student Success division, this project will develop and host Professional Development ��(PD) workshops for faculty and graduate students to increase best practices in inclusive pedagogy. ��The structure of the proposed project is partly in response to requests by previous faculty participants to learn about additional ��strategies designed to promote belonging and increase inclusivity in classrooms. This includes evidence-based strategies such as opportunities for syllabus revisions to promote growth mindset, as well as small, immediately implementable strategies. Participants will continue engagement and reflection, ��and share lessons learned with peers through Community of Practice (CoP) meetings.��

Finish Line

The Last Mile initiative that began in 2010 was very successful in helping over 1,000 students who left PSU without their degree return and graduate. There are many students that have stopped out as a result of the pandemic for a myriad of reasons, and we worked to build on the Last Mile initiative to be a true "last mile" program and help the students who were either at risk of stopping out due to financial reasons or that ��stopped out as a result of the pandemic. This project supported students' return with academic and financial planning support.��

First-Year Experience - Career

We are launching a career readiness program that engages First-Year Free students from the beginning of their academic journey. Throughout their first year, students will be connected with opportunities to engage in academic, career development, extracurricular, and civic engagement activities.

Math Start

The Math Start initiative will strive to address various student success metrics for students who test in developmental math courses. ��PSU data indicates that full-time first-year students who test at Math 95 or lower persist at a rate 15% lower than their peers. The Math Start Initiative aims to determine if there are alternatives to Math 95 at PSU and a viable option for students placed into Math 95 or below to start at college-level math.

Motivate Lab: Student Voices Initiative

The Student Voices Initiative centers student-led focus groups to examine students' sense of academic and social belonging at PSU and other higher education institutions and provides recommendations for system-change, with a particular focus on supporting historically marginalized student groups.

Onboarding

This project aims to implement a clear, comprehensive, and consistent onboarding experience for first year and transfer students during their first year at PSU. With a supportive plan in place, students will know who their ‘success’ team is and the knowledge and access to resources that support student success. This project is a collaborative effort between Advising & Career Services and the Transfer & Returning Student Resource Center.��

SMS Chatbot - Victor E. Bot

Student Success has partnered with EdSights to implement a campus-wide SMS chatbot that can serve as a first-line problem solving and wayfinding tool for students. The goal of this project is to provide students with a convenient way to find answers to questions, get automated and tailored messages aimed at improving connection to PSU, and creating a mechanism for student success staff to provide additional support —thereby increasing overall student engagement and persistence. ��

Student Success Data Champions

The Data Champions program will bring together selected faculty, staff, and administrators from across our campus to build data literacy, empower data users, deepen our understanding of equity-minded data analysis, and ultimately expand the data-informed student-success decision-making capacity at PSU. Participants will gather in cross-functional teams to answer questions about student success, supported by a series of two-hour learning/workshop sessions, and with the help of expert coaches. After completing the program, the Data Champions will return their skills and knowledge to their units to support strategic decision-making.��

Student Wayfinding Task Force

The Student Wayfinding Task Force is a continuation of the First Stop Workgroup. Current work focuses on three areas:��

Coordinated Hours (short-term) for services within FMH
A Virtual First Stop (long-term)
Inter-departmental relationship building

Summer Scholars

The Summer Scholars is a three-week summer program followed by a year-long academic workshop that supports early access to campus resources, community, and academic coursework to ease the transition from high school/community college to college.��

Transfer Partnerships

Enhancing the transfer student experience is a priority at PSU. The Transfer & Returning Student Resource Center focuses on helping transfer students transition smoothly to PSU, and is a primary university resource for developing and maintaining transfer articulation agreements and partnership programs.��

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