Student Success Project Archive

Here you can view the work completed by our Student Success teams and partners as of Winter 2024. These accomplishments show the capabilities and expertise of our valued teams.

Aleks Pilot

In an effort to place students more appropriately into introductory level Chemistry courses, the department implemented the ALEKS placement test and remediation tool. In addition to improving placement, the goal of the project is to improve the success of students in CHEM 221 and thereby also improve persistence. Students who do not meet the minimum score for placement into 221 are given the opportunity to complete a series of learning units in order to improve their score. As of spring 2023, the test has launched and is currently in use.

Students First Resilience Fund

At PSU, 43% of students who were unable to resolve all of their holds left, many of whom left with a financial hold. In partnership with the Office of Student Success, PSU's Division of Enrollment Management initiated a pilot program designed to predict students at risk of receiving a financial hold and proactively provide them with financial support. The Student’s First Resilience Fund provides $500 a term for three terms to a group of students identified as being likely to have a financial hold placed on their account. The program is expected to help increase retention rates on campus.

Pedagogical Innovation

Under the joint leadership of Professor Erin Shortlidge and Vice Provost Erica Wagner, this Inclusive Pedagogy and Curricular Innovation project aims to support faculty in evidence-based, culturally relevant, inclusive curriculum development in order to improve faculty experiences of teaching and students' learning experiences. The second phase of this project is called EPIC@PSU.

WICHE No Holding Back

The goal of this project was to give institutions tools to (re)evaluate our administrative and/or student success and hold policies to improve student success and to better use our data in policy formation. We participated in a community of practice over the course of 15 months and received support from WICHE and AACRAO as we went through the exercise of collecting, cleaning, and analyzing administrative hold data and revising policies based on those findings.

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