Enhance Student Experience and Success
Charge
- Leverage university resources to best support student success and access
- Create specific initiatives, action plans and projects to expand efforts to recruit and retain students
- Implement student support programs and academic initiatives that enhance student success
- Deliver measurable improvements to student retention and graduation rates
- Build the framework and funding to support students through graduation with no or minimal debt
- Promote and support interdisciplinary collaboration to further develop curriculum that is responsive to issues facing or communities and prepares our students for high-demand careers
- Emphasize the expansion of problem-based learning, and other high impact experiential practices, for all students and highlight UM-Dearborn as a ‘problem-solving’ campus
Lead
Ghassan Kridli, Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Co-leads
Melissa Stone, Vice Provost for Enrollment Management
Amy Finley, Dean of Students
Frédéric Brunel, Dean of College of Business
Armen Zakarian, Interim Dean of College of Engineering and Computer Science
Dagmar Budikova, Dean of College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters
Ann Lampkin-Williams, Dean of College of Education, Health, and Human Services
- Leverage financial aid model to increase affordability and accessibility
- Encourage students who stopped out to complete degrees
- Improve student support systems (e.g., counselors, advisors/first year advising, peer mentoring, supplemental instruction, tracking systems) to increase retention and graduation rates
- Create a seamless and integrated student service network
- Enhance community outreach and partnerships
- Create a vision that celebrates a new, innovative commuter campus
- Create expanded flexible offerings (online and hybrid courses and programs)
- Develop a recruitment strategy for international students
Key Performance Indicators
Increase undergraduate enrollment
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| 6,117 | 6,199 | 7,500 |
Increase graduate enrollment
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| 2,107 | 1,806 | 2,500 |
Increase four-year First Time in Any College (FTIAC) graduation rate
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| 32% | 35% | 41% |
Increase six-year First Time in Any College (FTIAC) graduation rate
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| 56% | 60% | 64% |
Increase six-year graduation rates of First Time in Any College (FTIAC) subgroups to be equal to overall FTIAC rate » Pell-eligible students
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| -5% | -4.6% | Parity |
Increase six-year graduation rates of First Time in Any College (FTIAC) subgroups to be equal to overall FTIAC rate » First-generation students
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| -3% | -4.3% | Parity |
Increase six-year graduation rates of First Time in Any College (FTIAC) subgroups to be equal to overall FTIAC rate » African-American students
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| -16% | -15% | Parity |
Increase six-year graduation rates of First Time in Any College (FTIAC) subgroups to be equal to overall FTIAC rate » Hispanic students
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| -16% | -11% | Parity |
Increase percentage of students with job offers or attending graduate school six months after graduation
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| 88% | 80% | 95% |
Increase percentage of courses designated as Practice-Based Learning (PBL), Academic Service Learning (ASL), or Community Engaged (CE)
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (by 2027) |
|---|---|---|
| 20% | 51% | 50% |
Increase percentage of graduating undergraduate students who engaged in three or more high impact teaching practices
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| 68% | 71% | 80% |
Maintain or increase percentage of undergraduate students receiving Pell grants
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| 43% | 53% | Maintain or Increase |
Maintain or increase percentage of undergraduate first-generation students
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| 41% | 44% | Maintain or Increase |
Maintain or increase percentage of undergraduate students for whom full financial need is met with $2,000 or less of loans/work study
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| 90% | 95% | Maintain or Increase |
Increase average student-athlete GPA
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| 3.14 | 3.24 | 3.35 |
Increase number of conference championships per year
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 0 | 6 |
Increase percentage of named National Academic All-American student-athletes
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| 45% | 36% | 55% |
Increase percentage of named Conference Academic All-American student-athletes
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| 63% | 59% | 70% |
Increase rating of RNL survey question “At least one faculty or staff member cares about me as a person”
| Start (2022) | Progress (2025) | Goal (2032) |
|---|---|---|
| 5.43 | 5.95 | 5.75 |