Advancing Equity-Minded Student Success

2021-2022 Boldly Creative Project

This project centers on the creation of a pioneering diverse student success infrastructure that supports the long-term cultural change and entails rethinking, coordinating, and leveraging Miami’s values, financial and human resources, policies, technology, and decision-making to ensure reflection on, attention to, and on-going examination of diverse student needs.

Key components:

• Shared and guiding principles and values
• Reorganization of units and processes to foster comprehensive support
• A total intake (proactive, holistic, and team-based) student success and advising system
• High-performance standards and accountability measures for staff and faculty as well as continuous development of equity-oriented advising, academic support, and curricular approaches
• Purposeful leveraging of technology
• Forward-thinking and data-informed strategies (academic support, curricular and advising programs, approaches, and processes) that have a proven track record of increasing the success of underrepresented populations of undergraduate students, particularly students of color.

Leading Faculty on the Project:

Impact:

The anticipated outcomes of this project include increased retention, persistence, and completion rates for all groups of students, increased numbers of students of color, and elevated University rankings