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Goal 2: Student Success

We will provide experiences that enrich academic, co-curricular and career goals.

Objective 1: Enhance and promote our safe and healthy campus community.

  • Develop a systematic way to identify where students are employed after graduation to obtain feedback that will inform program validity and improvement.
  • Use the Academic Program Needs Assessment model effectively to guide resource reallocation decisions.
  • Conduct environmental scans annually to inform program strategic planning.
  • Evaluate opportunities to infuse career planning, job search and readiness into program curriculum using institutional resources.
  • Expand and enhance experiential program to prepare students for workforce by effectively using on- and off-campus resources

Key Strategies:

  • Maintain and enhance current student programs and activities to ensure that they promote healthy lifestyles.
  • Conduct an annual systematic review and communication of emergency, health and safety information.
  • Increase police officer visibility and campus community connections.
  • Educate, train and support faculty and staff with regard to identifying and reporting students who are of concern or in crisis in a timely and appropriate manner.

Objective 2: Promote global awareness and inclusion.

Key Strategies:

  • Collaboratively develop and implement co-curricular and residential campus-side programs and activities that enhance global awareness and promote inclusion.

Objective 3: Create and sustain a culture that supports and respects a diverse student population in their intellectual growth and completion of a degree.

Key Strategies:

  • Adopt institution-wide standards for respecting, developing and sustaining a culture of inclusion.

  • Enhance current and build new partnerships and collaborations between various campus entities in order to provide efficient, wraparound support.

  • Develop and implement an online reporting and feedback system to identify and resolve campus access issues for students with disabilities.

  • Review and implement the Internationalizing the Campus Strategic Plan to enhance current programs to support international students and scholars.

Objective 4: Strengthen student programming and wellness activities.

Key Strategies:

  • Increase the number and variety of recreational opportunities for students that enhance their educational and personal experiences.

  • Develop and schedule programming on critical campus safety and wellness topics.

  • Utilize an internal advisory board to create, implement and support new student co-curricular programming opportunities.

Objective 5: Improve residential housing options and experiences.

Key Strategies:

  • Identify and implement standards of excellence for housing staff and facilities.

  • Enhance housing staff training and student staff compensation.

  • Create and implement a clear and focused replacement plan for furnishings and equipment.

  • Assess and address student satisfaction with the campus residential experience.

Objective 6: Strengthen the collaboration between Academic Affairs and Student Success.

Key Strategies:

  • Establish an internal advisory board to create, implement and support new student co-curricular programming opportunities.

  • Institutionally support collaborative programming built on proven models and/or examples.

  • Identify strategies to support students staying/working on campus.

Objective 7: Produce knowledgeable graduates prepared for the workforce, advanced careers and professional education.

Key Strategies:

  • Update student hiring practices and ensure that work study/graduate assistant/internship opportunities provide students with real-world experiences in situations that develop soft skills.

  • Create and implement learning outcomes for student workers.

Objective 8: Assist students as they transition from postsecondary education into the workforce or graduate education.

Key Strategies:

  • Develop a formalized college- and discipline-based career/graduate school mentoring program for students.

  • Explore and systematically implement opportunities to incorporate transition activities/experiences into academic programs.

  • Explore tools and strategies to connect students to programs/careers.

Objective 9: Enhance the awareness and support of MSU Athletics.

Key Strategies:

  • Develop new promotional programs to encourage participation in athletic events.

  • Host pre-game activities for alumni and friends in appropriate locations.

  • Conduct targeted fundraising appeals for athletics.

Student Success: Key Performance Measures

  • Results from the NSSE Engagement Indicator of Learning with Peers, which includes collaborative learning and discussions with diverse others

  • Number of total degrees awarded

  • Number of bachelor’s degrees

  • Number of master’s degrees

  • Number of doctoral degrees

  • Number of STEM+H degrees

  • Number of credits to degree

  • Student satisfaction with residential experience, student life programming and services, co-curricular academic activities, etc.

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