Support equitable access, opportunity and success for students from diverse backgrounds where diversity is defined broadly.
Strategies
Clearly define retention and completion goals and create tailored and comprehensive plans to best support the specific needs of our diverse student population (also serves goal 3).
Objective: Increase the overall first-year retention rate to 75 percent by fall 2023 (from 73 percent in fall 2018) implementing a coordinated retention, persistence and completion model that includes accountability at the college, department and university levels by fall 2019.
Objective: Improve the overall six-year graduation rate by five percentage points (51 percent) by fall 2023 (46 percent in fall 2018).
Objective: Increase the first-year retention rates for Latinx and Asian-American students by five percent by fall 2023, understanding that “at average” can fluctuate annually by one or two percent.
Objective: Redesign the first-year experience to bolster student success by fall 2020.
Objective: All faculty and staff will complete training on compliance regulations and the needs of students with disabilities by fall 2023.
Objective: Increase the financial investment in resources necessary to ensure that requests for reasonable accommodations for students are met in a timely manner by fall 2020.
Objective: All new first-year and transfer undergraduates will complete cultural competency education by fall 2023.
Objective: Develop a financial literacy program for students that increases awareness of personal financial management by fall 2020.
Clearly identify gaps in academic achievement and create tailored and comprehensive plans to reduce these gaps (also serves goal 3).
Objective: Increase six-year graduation rates by reducing equity gaps for Latinx students to five percent or less by fall 2023 and remain consistently with gaps no greater than five percent.
Objective: Increase first-year retention rates by reducing equity gaps for Black new freshmen to 10 percent or less by fall 2023, understanding that success will mean consistently staying with one to two percent of that range for at least three years.