We are working on the following projects with partners across campus.
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| Name | Description | Partner | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Incoming Student Skills & Attitudes Questionnaire | Core piece of student success system, survey administered during student orientation to assess 12 key non-cognitive factors. Data generates student reports, advisor reports, and data for SSEA and other programs to use to support student success | Orientation & Transitions; Advising Community; IT | Completed |
| Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) Implementation | Key software ecosystem for student success system, working closely with colleagues on design, communication, implementation, & change management | IT, Academic Affairs, Dean of Students | On-going |
| Predictive Retention Model | Develop predictive retention model to support proactive, holistic, and asset-based student success campaigns and identify institutional programming | Registrar, PAIR | On-going |
| Student Success Research Fellows | Learning & research community for faculty and staff to explore data-informed questions about equity, student success, and retention. | CFI, Research & Scholarship | On-going |
| First-Year Seminars | Discussion group of staff, advisors, faculty currently teaching first-year seminars or interested in first-year seminars, exploring best practices, acting as resource for one another, and researching impact | On-going | |
| Check-in Surveys | Core piece of student success system, micro-surveys texted to students to check-in, connect, and support students | Residence Life | Completed |
| Classroom schedule dashboard | Explore research questions related to classroom scheduling, provide visualization of classroom schedule data | Registrar |
Completed
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| Canvas student activity | Core piece of student success system, exploring leveraging student Canvas engagement data to support proactive, holistic, and asset-based support. Current focus on zero-activity | Libraries |
On-going
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| Re-enrolling stop-outs | Need analysis, process development, strategies for re-enrolling stop-out students | Registrar, Colleges, OSARP, PAIR, Athletics | Incomplete |
| Mid-term grades | Exploring roles that mid-term grades, progress reports, and feedback play in academic success for students and faculty; increase current midterm grade submission and usage | Registrar, Colleges, Advisors | On-going |
| Mid-term grade research study | Study funded by Bluenotes grant to explore different midterm grade and feedback processes for students, faculty, and advisors; Spring 2023 pilot with 10 faculty across 3 colleges | CAL, CISE, COB, Advisors, Faculty | Completed |
| TFRE EARNS | Collaborating to design, implement, and evaluate Task Force for Racial Equity recommendations for early academic student success | Admissions, Advising, Orientation & Transitions |
Completed
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| Student Success Seminar | Collaborating to design, pilot, and evaluate student success seminars for students who are not meeting their academic goals, including students on academic probation or suspension. | Dean of Students, Academic Student Services, College of Business |
On-going
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| Seat need enrollment projection model | Exploring, designing, piloting, and evaluating models for predicting the number of specific course seats needed by JMU undergraduate students for future semesters. | Student Academic Success, Colleges |
In-progress
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| Student Success Coaching | Collaborate to design, resource, and intentionally coordinate holistic student success coaching available to all JMU students | Dean of Students, Learning Centers, Health Promotion |
On-going
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| X-Labs Well-Being Course | Collaborate to design and offer an X-Labs class focused on JMU student well-being. | Student Affairs, Academic Affairs, X-Labs |
Completed
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| First-year Research Experience | Collaborate with Research, Economic Development & Innovation on transititioning and scaling up first year undergraduate research | REDI, Student Academic Success |
In-progress
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| Curricular Analytics | Collaborate with partners to explore use of curricular analytics at JMU and develop tools | Faculty Affairs & Curriculum, Office of the Registrar, Colleges |
In development
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| Local LLMs | Develop & explore use of local LLMs for student success and retention efforts | I.T. |
In-progress
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| Pre-Weeks of Welcome Experience | Collaborate with partners in developing pre-weeks of welcome experiences centered around academics | Student Affairs, Academic Affairs |
In development
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Student Success Analytics
