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.