Participating Institutions and Organizations

American Indian Higher Education Consortium

Objective: By building increased institutional capacity to participate in and achieve results through state and federal advocacy, this project will strengthen the research-based advocacy voice of Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) at all levels of government in order to increase financial support for the institutions they serve.

California State University Monterey Bay

Objective: To improve mathematics and writing developmental education course and proficiency skills alignment between two-year and four-year institutions.

Florida International University

Miami Dade College

Objective: To examine and build on the factors that promote student success by examining key transition points—students participating in a dual degree program, juniors with undeclared majors, students moving from undecided to major status, and transfer students with financial aid needs.

Jackson State University

Objective: To share knowledge and strengthen methods through campus action plans to improve minority student success. Jackson State University’s Destination Graduation Policy Initiative, with support from the Mississippi Urban Research Center, is creating a framework for participating Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Salish Kootenai College

Fort Peck Community College

Objective: To engage in an action-research program that includes: 1) investigating the factors that affect the persistence and academic success of American Indian students requiring developmental education, and 2) increasing capacity to generate institutional data that informs programming for students who require developmental coursework.

Southern Education Foundation

Objective: To select interested HBCUs and Hispanic-Serving Institutions to participate in two high-quality institutes, serve as student learning outcomes demonstration sites, and document best practices to include in the best practices resource tool.

University of North Carolina

Objectives: 1) To dramatically improve data collection and management capacity at the six MSIs to inform policy and programs; and 2) to connect inter-disciplinary teams representing each MSI to the knowledge, tools, and promising practices that will enable them to improve developmental education and retention activities. In collaboration with the UNC General Administration, the system’s six MSIs are partnering together on statewide student success initiatives.

University of Texas-El Paso

Objective: 1) To identify factors that affect transfer and articulation, 2) to study other non-traditional paths (such as dual credit and early college programs) toward the four-year degree, and 3) to expand the model characteristics for a successful first-time student. Also, this project aims to leverage data from to track longitudinal trends on student persistence, academic performance and demographic characteristics.