Student Achievement
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Specific Action Item
Who is Responsible?
Process and Timeline
Reference
Cross-
Mid-Year Update 2017-18
(December 2017)
Year-End Update 2017-18
(May 2018)
1-1
Develop a tracking metric for becoming the “university of choice” for Clark County School District graduates.
Led by Mike Sauer.
2017-2018: • Track percentage of CCSD students who apply to UNLV and percentage of accepted students who matriculate.
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• The current measure for this metric is the percent of students who enroll at UNLV based on total acceptances.
• This is not a true measure of "university of choice;" therefore, we will work with ESS and Decision Support to establish a measure of students who list UNLV as their first choice college to attend.
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Tracking of Recruitment, Progression, Completion (RPC) Metrics.
Led by Brent Drake.
2017-2018: • Goal: Year 1 to Year 2 retention rate of 85% by 2025; Six-year graduation rate of 50% by 2025. • Decision Support to develop system to track and make data readily available.
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• Retention Rate for 2016 Cohort - 74.4% • Graduation 2011/2017 - 41.6%
• Our First Year retention rate fell this year. We are investigating the reasons behind this drop and will adjust our practices accordingly.
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Tracking of student experience metrics: Curricular & Co-Curricular.
Led by Laurel Pritchard, with Judd Harbin and Lindsay Couzens.
* See report: Student Experience Metrics 2016-17 ISG 1-3.
2017-2018: • Lindsay Couzens is leading group to revise alumni and senior exit surveys to measure student
satisfaction with academic and co-curricular experiences.
• Review SSI data and make recommendations for how UNLV might improve student ratings on key metrics.
• Administer NSSE in Spring 2018.
• Administer NASPA Consortium Study for Campus Activities in Spring 2018.
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• Senior Associate Vice President for Alumni Engagement and Annual Giving was planning to launch a revised, nation-wide alumni survey. He invited Asst. Dir/Undergrad Assessment and Accreditation to take part in the planning process for the survey and help to craft some custom items relevant to alumni satisfaction with curricular and co-curricular experiences at UNLV.
• The survey was launched in October, 2017, and data are expected to be returned in mid-January, 2018.
• Office of Campus Life Assessment is planning to administer the NASPA Consortium Study for Campus Activities. This study, in which UNLV has participated in the past, provides national
benchmarks for student involvement in campus activities and the impact of those activities on the overall collegiate experience. We are also moving to better discriminate within the SSI and NSSI and identify specific target issues to address and enhance.
• Working with the Office of Community Engagement we are surveying all UNLV course offerings to assess student service learning and how
Student Achievement
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Specific Action Item
Who is Responsible?
Process and Timeline
Reference
Cross-
Mid-Year Update 2017-18
(December 2017)
Year-End Update 2017-18
(May 2018)
1-4 Continued development of the APR plan for student athletes.
Led by: Ann McDonough. Subcommittee: Dan Gianoutsos, Desiree Reed-Francois, Rebecca Pugh, and David Wedley.
* See report: Academic Progress Plan Report 2015-2016 STA 10
2017-2018: Continuation of the plan that was developed and
followed during the 2015 academic year.
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The APR plan has developed further with the following initiatives:
• A new Student Athlete Engagement Specialist was added in Fall, 2017,
• A search is underway for an additional academic support specialist,
• Four new graduate assistants who assist in the academic support areas have been added,
• The Rebel Academy (formerly Life Skills) has been expanded to include more workshops and services, and
• Student Athlete Academic Services is working with a new student athlete career specialist, added by Athletics in Fall, 2017.
Student Achievement
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Specific Action Item
Who is Responsible?
Process and Timeline
Reference
Cross-
Mid-Year Update 2017-18
(December 2017)
Year-End Update 2017-18
(May 2018)
Recruitment & Transition
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2017-2018:
Undergraduate:
*The Office of Admissions will continue to enhance/improve the initiatives currently in place. *Admissions to partner with the MyUNLV team to build out our CRM, Salesforce. Upon completion, dramatic improvements can be made to all strategies being employed throughout the Admissions cycle.
Graduate:
*Comprehensive Campus-wide GEM Plan *Recruitment, Retention, Completion Projections *Data Needs Assessment
*Grad Rebel Gateway Project *Pipeline Programs
Led by: Mike Sauer (Undergraduate). Subcommittee: Kris Shay, Chris Heavey, Craig Granger, Daniel Mendoza, Keith Rogers, Nikki Troxclair, Sunny Gittens, and Tricia McCrory.
Led by: Kate Korgan (Graduate).
Subcommittee: Kendall Hartley, Kara Wada, Sebern Coleman, Valarie Burke, and Janet Dufek.
Further development of
comprehensive undergraduate and graduate recruitment plans. 2-1
Undergraduate:
The Admissions Office continues to work to make improvements in our existing processes and procedures, with particular focus on planning with existing resources to address high ability recruiting and addressing recruitment of multicultural student recruiting.
Enrollment and Student Services has made modest improvement in building out the CRM, but does not have dedicated funding to fully improve. Current staff continue to work on this initiative as time permits.
An external evaluation of ESS has been conducted.
Graduate:
This working group has established Graduate College teams to work on each of the 5 listed goals above. When all team meetings are accounted for, we’ve had more than 18 meetings to keep moving closer to these goals. Thus far, we’ve accomplished the following:
1. Nearly completed the entire campus-wide GEM plan. Final version will be done by the end of the semester.
2. Developed a projections model showing enrollment to graduation figures. This will help us assess the likelihood of meeting certain graduation targets based on given enrollment.
3. We have completed the graduate data needs assessment and shared the document with Brent Drake.
4. The Graduate Rebel Gateway Project is ongoing. In addition to system fixes, ongoing integration with MyUNLV (building a two-way data bridge), and creation of admissions and GA dashboards for the Grad College and for each individual program, we have made significant progress toward our transition into DocuSign electronic forms and building
Student Achievement
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Specific Action Item
Who is Responsible?
Process and Timeline
Reference
Cross-
Mid-Year Update 2017-18
(December 2017)
Year-End Update 2017-18
(May 2018)
2-2
Set enrollment targets that are consistent with faculty target increases.
Led by Carl Reiber and Rainier Spencer.
2017-2018: Continued work with the UNLV Capacity Analysis. Results of the Capacity Analysis will be used with setting targets.
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With the new Vice Provost for Decision Support and ESS we are developing the predictive models required to assess rate of growth in defined areas and then match them to applicant yield etc.
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Deepen our collaboration with CCSD, Nevada State, and the College of Southern Nevada to ensure seamless transitions into UNLV for qualified students by developing pipeline programs and using appropriate contingent admission programs and articulation agreements.
Led by Carl Reiber.
Subcommittee: Ann McDonough, Juanita Fain, Dan Gianoutsos, and Gayle Juneau-Butler.
2017-2018: Further follow-up on Early Studies Program and Dual Enrollment programs with Ann McDonough. *Work with CSN and NSC to develop 2+2, 2+3 and 3+1 programs.
*Work with CCSD on early admission (dual enrollment) programs, 12 grade math programing, and STEM development.
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UNLV continues to work with CSN and NSC to develop programs that articulate appropriately. This year UNV and CSN will launch a 9+6 program where students take 6 CSN credits at UNLV to better engage these students in remedial courses yet build a UNLV going culture to support them academically and co-curricularly.
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Reevaluate, as appropriate, financial aid and use of merit awards to attract and retain those students whom UNLV particularly wants to recruit.
Led by Carl Reiber and Norm Bedford.
2017-2018: *Review the new financial aid compliance initiative and determine appropriate steps.
*Continue to monitor emergency aid to prevent Stopping Out.
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We will reevaluate how UNLV distributes need based and merit based financial aid to better support student success.
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Develop a plan to continue
expansion of the Honors College to increase the number of, and the UNLV opportunities for,
outstanding undergraduate students.
Led by Marta Meana.
2017-2018: * Developing a strategic plan for Honors College growth.
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The Honors College is developing a strategic plan that emphasizes quality. At this time the size of the Honors college is consistent with most very high end units at our aspirational institutions. We will
continue to assess the quality of the incoming Honors students and expand as needed and resources become available.
Student Achievement
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Specific Action Item
Who is Responsible?
Process and Timeline
Reference
Cross-
Mid-Year Update 2017-18
(December 2017)
Year-End Update 2017-18
(May 2018)
3-1 Develop process for curricular
review. Led by Carl Reiber.
2017-2018:
*EAB workshop to tackle issues that span recruitment to graduation.
*This initial workshop will be followed by a campus wide rollout in the Fall of 2017.
*The campus will engage in a data informed
curricular review process to align their curricula with Top Tier Goals focused on Student Achievement.
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The office of the Provost under Vice Provost Spencer has worked with the Faculty Senate to develop more robust review criteria that have metrics and benchmarks for success with follow up at defined time periods.
Comprehensive RPC Planning
3-2 Develop the funding and standards for teaching excellence awards.
Led by Mary-Ann Winkelmes and Ngai Pindell.
*See report: Teaching Excellence Awards 2016-17 STA 3-2.
2017-2018:
*Determine next steps based on the recommendation provided in the report Teaching Excellence Awards 2016-17 STA 3-2. *Development of a faculty center.
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• The Vice Provosts for Undergraduate Education, Academic Programs along with ESS are working to integrate their counseling and advising practices to better serve freshmen and retention issues. The ASC is working with at risk students to better prepare them for college gateway courses and provide support to entry into appropriate majors.
• Online review/scoring process for applications was developed to align closely with awards criteria, tested by the UNLV Foundation/Regents' Distinguished Teaching Awards Selection
Committee in 2017, adjusted and tested again by the 2018 Committee. Additional final adjustments were made to the online review/scoring process.
• Two new annual awards were established to recognize Scholarship of Teaching and Learning • Funding for the two new awards is budgeted from the Office of Faculty Affairs Instructional
Development & Research budget
• The new online review/scoring process will be used for all teaching awards administered by the Office of Faculty Affairs
• An online campus survey gathered feedback from approximately 300 respondents about what services a new Faculty Center might provide for the campus.
Student Achievement
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Specific Action Item
Who is Responsible?
Process and Timeline
Reference
Cross-
Mid-Year Update 2017-18
(December 2017)
Year-End Update 2017-18
(May 2018)
3-3
Co-curricular/student engagement: Continue to develop processes and procedures for student related units on campus to work together to enhance ways to collaborate and coordinate recruitment, admissions, retention, and graduation activities.
Led by: Gayle Juneau-Butler.
Subcommittee: Beth Gersten, Dan Gianoutsos, Georg Mauer, Karen Strong, Pat Hawthorne, Sofie Burton, Andrew Hanson, Laurel Pritchard, Lori Temple, Mary-Ann
Winkelmes, Michael Nicholl, Rimi Marwah, Jennifer Keene, Finley Cotrone, Michael Sauer, Alice Corkill, and Sharon Young.
* See report: Co-curricular Student Engagement 2016-17 STA 3-3.
2017-2018:
Convened student success working group with representatives from all colleges and other major units across campus; continue with committee recommendations from 2016-17.
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• Implementation of Gateway course policies for math and English, including communication of policies and practices with UNLV Admissions and CSN.
• Identify professionals for creation of articulation agreements and degree sheets + four year plans with UNLV and transfer institutions.
• Hiring of Student Achievement Specialists to assist with academic support information distribution and one-on-one assistance to students.
- Utilizing Campus Connect to create retention and graduation projects for undergraduate students.
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Administrative Structures and Procedures: Determine and implement the optimal location for student service functions (in terms of which VP’s area).
Led by Carl Reiber.
2017-2018: Implementing SSC Campus to standardize advising practices and student activity tracking.
Continuing proactive, collaborative engagement with Enrollment and Student Services.
Office of Decision Support restructuring to allow the campus to be strongly data driven.
Review consultant's report and determine next steps for the EVP&P reporting structure.
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• A newly established reporting structure now has the VPSA reporting to the EVP&P.
• Discussions are underway to facilitate better communications and integration between Student Affairs and the Office of the Provost.
3-5 Start discussion of creation of a
12-month campus (including Fridays). Led by Carl Reiber.
2017-2018: Initial planning phases are underway. STA A4
• These programs are under development. • There are several programs that will make use of the campus 6 days a week and with the summer integrated into their time frames.
