Transforming Postsecondary Student Success through Governing Boards
Goals
To create a deeper board understanding of and commitment to the oversight responsibility for both student success in general and equity in student success as measured by surveys and focus groups.
Increase knowledge on how boards and staff can work together to advance institutional strategic equitable student success goals.
Improved retention rates for students—both aggregate and disaggregated by family income, race/ethnicity, and rural/non-rural.
Improved persistence rates– both aggregate and disaggregated by family income, race/ethnicity, and rural/non-rural.
Improved workforce placement rates in jobs that provide a family-supporting income– both aggregate and disaggregated by family income, race/ethnicity, and rural/non-rural.
Outcomes to Date (September 2024)
All seven institutions completed their Governing Board plans and shared them at final Seminar of the Governing Board Academy in Spring 2024. Those plans and the analysis of their structures can be found in our just published case study anthology: (Coming Soon)
The five institutions that also embarked on the Retention Performance Management process all completed their deep dive into their institutional data, held a planning retreat and developed a strategic retention and student success plan for their institutions. They are embarking on implementation of their plans this year.
Next Steps
All seven institutions will be implementing (or continuing implementation of ) their governing board plans this year. To date, three of these Kentucky institutions have also joined the Transformation Consortium to embed this work within a larger institutional transformation plan.
While the grant has ended, we shall be following the success of these institutions with great interest!
