14 Student Affairs Strategic Plan STRATEGIC PLAN KEY RESULTS AND OBJECTIVES Objective 1. ADVANCE STUDENT SUCCESS: Student success is core to our mission and identity. 1. With the Student Success Center and Student Success Council, utilize the RNL 2025 Effective Practices for Student Success, Retention, and Completion Report to identify retention programs to further enhance or add to support student success.2 2. With Partners, conduct a thorough review of our First-Year Experience Program and First-Year Seminar Course, with recommendations to ensure maximum impact on student persistence and to provide consistency with the Northern Experience (See SEM Theme 4, Goal 5). 3. Working with Institutional Research and the Student Success Center, create a predictive retention model and assign each FTFT incoming student a retention predictor score with tailored interventions. 4. With the Student Success Center, create an institutional Graduation Report that will provide insight for key staff and administrators on progress toward our 38% graduation goal. 5. Add a training on “Being Student-Centered” to the Student Behavior Education Series. 6. Work with the Student Success Center to provide access to Navigate for Student Affairs employees who work directly in retention efforts. 7. Working with the Wolf Shoppe and Academic Affairs, create a Graduation Fair during the fall Involvement Fair to encourage students to plan for graduation earlier in their senior year. 8. With partners, host a “100 Days Until Graduation!” event to promote applying for graduation. 9. Working with Human Resources, add a job requirement to all benefits-eligible employees stating that they, “contribute to the Northern Experience by supporting recruitment and retention efforts across campus.” 10. Working with Admissions and Financial Aid, require all degree-seeking students to submit a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). 11. Send an interdisciplinary team to the Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience hosted by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.3 If we do not monitor our progress toward a concrete goal, we are like a ship captain without a compass, adrift at sea, turning the helm furiously but sailing in circles. Kurt Lewin German American Psychologist 2For nearly 50 years, colleges and nonprofit organizations have turned to Ruffalo Noel Levitz (RNL) to enroll the students they want, help more students graduate and succeed, and build lifelong relationships with donors. Our mission is to make colleges, universities, and nonprofits successful and vibrant with inspired and relevant engagement with our team of experts. 3See: https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/national_resource_center/events/conferences/first-year_experience/index.php. This will inform the universities efforts to evaluate and make improvements to the First Year Experience, See Key Result 2.
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