About Us

Strategic Goals

Student Success' established strategic goals require us to deliver a higher quality undergraduate experience both in and out of the classroom. The accomplishment of these goals will enhance the experiences of the tens of thousands of students who have entrusted ±«Óãtv with their futures, as well as allow ±«Óãtv to maintain preeminence among America's universities.

  • Continue progress in strengthening the academic credentials of incoming students through closer coordination with the K-12 community and Florida State Colleges.
    • Increase the academic profile, scholarly preparedness, and geographical diversity of incoming students.
    • Enhance processes and create seamless pathways for improving transfer students' success.
  • Maintain the focus on delivering quality support services (advising, counseling, financial aid, health and wellness, orientation, etc.) and developing even more effective means of engaging undergraduate students in the ±«Óãtv community.
    • Communicate more effectively with students.
    • Enhance advising models using predictive analytics, tracking, and other advanced technologies.
    • Reduce student debt.
    • Significantly reduce the number of students graduating with excess hours.
    • Continue to build an inclusive and caring community that promotes student health and wellbeing, values diversity, and embraces civil discourse.
    • Keep developing a robust and sustained living and learning culture.
    • Enrich the student experience.
    • Expand co-curriculum and campus engagement activities.
  • Intensify efforts to boost student retention and progression. Elevate first-year retention rates.
    • Renew our focus on curriculum transformation and delivery in partnership with deans and faculty.
    • Review and reform ±«Óãtv's general education program with a focus on relevant and rigorous learning outcomes, including executing on the quality enhancement plan.
    • Increase faculty and advisor professional development for student success.
    • Expand undergraduate research, online education, study abroad, and experiential education, including internships and service learning opportunities.
  • Increase graduation rates and accelerated pathways to completion.
    • Continue improvement in graduation rates with a particular focus on four-year graduation rates for first time in college students (FTIC), two-year graduation rates for transfer students, and a more timely path to degree completion for graduate students.
    • Close the achievement gap between men and women.
  • Improve placement rates in high-demand, highly-skilled, highly-paid jobs and the most competitive graduate and professional schools across the nation and around the world.