Student Achievement - Annual Plan

Undergraduate Education

Planned Actions for AY 2024-2025

  • Promote existing and implement new, targeted programming for African American and Native American students.
  • Launch integrated First-Year Experience program, including math and English prep/placement, New Student Orientation, Common Read, First Year Seminars, peer mentoring, and associated programming.
  • Offer faculty development program to integrate career readiness outcomes into academic curriculum.
  • Engage Faculty Senate and Department Chairs in course scheduling transparency initiative.
  • Draft assessment framework for student success programs/initiatives.
  • Integration of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Career Competencies into undergraduate curriculum.
  • Advance Gen Ed 2.0 (more career focused, streamlined, and with experiential learning for all.
  • Open the new Institute for Financial Literacy and Wellness space with new campus banking partner and launch online workshops, training, and badges.
  • Launch year-round Datapalooza activities to support a transparent and empowering data culture that promotes student success and work with Decision Support and OIT to create dashboards and reports that track top tier metrics and NSHE student success metrics, overall and disaggregated. Work toward disaggregation of all key metrics by race/ethnicity, gender, first-gen status, Pell-eligible, In- and out-of-state, and age.
  • Train 50 faculty in AI-informed pedagogy and launch an AI community of practice to adapt learning cultures to the AI era and help students adapt and develop proficiency for future career readiness.
  • Track and report on student engagement in specific types of High Impact Practices and establish baseline data from which we can work to grow by 25% by the end of AY25-26.
  • Establish tracking mechanisms and a baseline from which we can work to increase engagement in student success and learning support arenas (peer mentorship, coaching, tutoring, FYE) by 25%.
  • Expand online course and program offerings to provide students options and promote successful and timely graduation. Track student enrollment type (online, in-person, hybrid).
  • Develop a Strategic Enrollment Plan to guide enrollment management strategy, priorities, and campus partnerships.
  • Launch Advising 2030 initiative and develop robust tracking, student support, and expanded services in Rebel Success Hub.
  • Decrease the percentage of students in co-requisite math through early interventions and increased testing.

Graduate Education

Planned Actions for AY 2024-2025

  • Align UG and grad programs to ensure a smooth transition for students, assist in internationalization efforts; grow Advantage program.
  • Establish a graduate data repository for easy, transparent access to graduate data and reports.
  • Increase badging and co-curricular offerings (including revenue-generating) and expand engagement.
  • Grow student engagement with The Grad Academy and integrate it into curricular programming; begin grant writing bootcamps.
  • Roll-out travel, matching programs, and enhanced support for postdocs; streamline hiring processes; work with OSP and deans to grow postdocs and the doc-to-postdoc pipeline.
  • Develop expanded student wellness programming and interventions, as well as faculty training.
  • Finish and deploy graduate faculty and graduate coordinator online training modules.
  • Expand support for graduate student basic needs.
  • Creation of a mentoring mentor program for faculty. 
  • Collaborate to establish digital marketing to promote select online graduate programs.
  • Develop credit-bearing Microcredential Handbook.
  • The development of a peer mentorship program for doctoral students.
  • Expand "mentoring mentors" program for graduate faculty by implementing a "training trainers" program.
  • Rollout of the McNair graduate fellowship program.

Career Development and Progression

Planned Actions for AY 2024-2025

  • Expand participation in First Destinations Survey by 15%.
  • Increase campus outreach by Career Services by 15%.
  • Increase direct student assessments and career advising by 15%.
  • Establish and enhance pre-internship student and employer training and post-assessments.
  • Completing data for FY24 Top Tier 2.0 metrics.
  • Employer Satisfaction and Engagement Survey - establish baseline of responses and track for enhanced satisfaction and engagement measures.
  • Rebel Career Champions Network - grow "Career Everywhere" integrated career and curriculum model.
  • Focus on growing meaningful paid local internships within a structure that trains internship supervisors and assess' student internship experiences. 
  • Generate a growing set of workforce-aligned community partners via the 2nd Annual Southern Nevada Leadership Summit; campus-community outreach; collaboration with GOWINN and GOED; etc.
  • Establish a thriving ecosystem for microcredentials. Increase badge engagement and attainment by 50%.
  • Generate a map of industries to majors; identify a process for assessing skills gaps in credentials.
  • Collaborate with key units within Academic Affairs and across campus to establish a scalable plan, including scaffolded career preparedness, life design, and high-impact experiences, to ensure workforce readiness for all graduates.