Pursuant to a March 2007 resolution of the Faculty Senate and Priority C of UAA 2017 (“Expand Educational Opportunity and Increase Student Success”), Provost Driscoll appointed the Student Success Task Force in November 2007.
The Provost directed the Task Force to:
1. Define issues, challenges, and opportunities related to student success;
2. Make recommendations with respect to advising and placement as per the Senate’s request; and
3. Inventory existing student success programs across the MAU, taking care to identify measures of program success.
Within the framework of the Provost’s directive, the Task Force concentrated on three points of emphasis.
1. The improvement of retention from first year to second.
2. The development of good metrics and measures to determine which programs work best.
3. The implementation of Priority C of UAA 2017 (“Expand Educational Opportunity and Increase Student Success”).
The 2007-2008 Year End Report is posted under the link to the left. The report is divided into three parts, each consisting of a short, summary narrative.
1. Student Progress and Goal Attainment. This section discusses the new Model for assessing student progress developed by Dr. Gary Rice, Associate Vice Provost (AVP) for Institutional Research. The Model was extensively reviewed and approved by the Task Force and is now in process of peer review with cooperating institutions outside Alaska. Key components of Dr. Rice’s Report are in Appendix A.
2. Inventory of Student Success. This narrative comments on the results of a comprehensive, UAA-wide, survey in which respondents were asked to identify programs, students served, collaborating partners, and measures of success. A summary of the database created from this survey is in Appendix B. Although the survey was comprehensive, the response was not; not all programs currently in existence are listed in the Inventory.
3. Advising and Placement. The Task Force appointed an Advising Sub-Committee to study the current state of advising and placement across the MAU. The Sub-Committee also produced a prioritized list of recommendations, which the Task Force has reviewed and approved. The report and the recommendations based on it are found in Appendix C.
