Observations and Next Steps
The strategies and activities that have been most successful this year have been those that were well-received by our campus community. Initiatives like Starting Blocks, Early Alert and Midterm Grade programs, and UHoo Analytics have had a positive impact. These successes were bolstered by comprehensive trainings and strong support from leadership, which helped foster campus-wide engagement and alignment around these initiatives.
With recent enrollment growth, we've encountered some additional demands on our support systems, but we see this as an opportunity to strengthen our services. To meet the needs of our expanding student population, we’ve made key adjustments, including hiring more faculty, advisors, success coaches, and peer educators. This expansion enables us to provide more personalized support, ensuring that each student has access to the resources they need to succeed.
As we move into the coming year, many aspects of our strategic plan are well-aligned with our Momentum-CCG Campus Plan. Our efforts will be dedicated to advancing these goals, which include:
- Enhancing undergraduate first-year retention and success.
- Improving success in critical courses with high enrollment and low pass rates.
- Increasing opportunities and support for students to engage in high impact practices.
- Developing an online student success infrastructure.
- Expanding faculty programming to cultivate innovative and effective pedagogical practices.
The fifth and final of our “Top 5 Strategies” is to build the campus-wide infrastructure, including hiring personnel, implementing data governance, refining warehouse operations, and strengthening the data architecture/systems, to begin the development of outcomes-based analytic dashboards containing actionable data. We hope that KSU will be able to test machine learning and generative AI to support predictive analytics and data interpretation support. This area will be crucial in providing comprehensive data support across all initiatives, driving informed decision-making and continuous improvement.
