Ensuring Student Success Metrics
A focus on students, which includes everything from a spirit of friendliness to excellent instruction to a range of high-quality services, will create a graduation-oriented, high-tough culture at Kent State. Doing so will let students know that the faculty and staff care deeply about them individually and about their unique routes to success. Doing so will produce more, and more successful Kent State Graduates.
| Metrics for the Implementation Plan | Source | Baseline 2013 | Intermediate 2015 | Target 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Increase student satisfaction rating for "support students receive to help them succeed academically." | ||||
| • Freshmen | NSSE | 70% | 75% | 80% |
| • Seniors | NSSE | 70% | 72% | 74% |
| Increase student satisfaction regarding relationships with faculty members. | ||||
| • Freshmen | NSSE | 62% | 70% | 75% |
| • Seniors | NSSE | 81% | 83% | 84% |
| Decrease the number of high enrollment course offerings in which students earn D or F grades or have students withdrawing at a high rate. | ||||
| RPIE | 79 | 69 | 59 | |
| Increase student satisfaction regarding quality of advising received. | ||||
| • Freshmen | NSSE | 79% | 81% | 83% |
| • Seniors | NSSE | 64% | 68% | 72% |
| Increase the graduation rate for first-time, full-time undergraduate degree-seeking students. | ||||
| RPIE | 52% | 55% | 60% | |
| Decrease the disparity between the overall graduation rates of those of various special populations. | ||||
| • AALANA | RPIE | 9.6% | 9.1% | 8.6% |
| • Students entering at age 21 or older | RPIE | 24.1% | 22.9% | 21.7% |
| • Commuter students | RPIE | 12.1% | 11.5% | 10.9% |
| • International students | RPIE | 26.3% | 25% | 23.7% |
