Student success and completion is a university-wide responsibility. Student success includes the fulfillment of a student’s current and future goals through their holistic development, training in their discipline, the acquisition and application of academic knowledge and a dedication to lifelong learning.
To achieve student success, equity must be infused in our culture, central to the student experience and evidenced in our curriculum, policies, procedures and practices. We must improve access to and quality of information and resources for all students, faculty, and staff awareness and use of inclusive practice and pedagogy that supports recruitment and retention of students. To accomplish this, we must commit to the following objectives:
Objectives
- Increase retention, persistence, completion and graduation rates for all undergraduate and graduate learners.
Strategies
- Create and enhance a highly engaged, graduation-oriented, academic and service culture so students feel fully integrated into the Kent State community, are comfortable seeking out resources and opportunities available to them and believe that all members of the university community care about them individually and about their personal routes to success.
- Create an academic environment that helps all students succeed in their classes and degree programs, as well as in their careers or professions.
- Develop and enhance evidence-based, data-driven approaches at all campus locations to achieve student success and equity goals.