Student Success

Priority 1: Student Success

Goal 1.1: Increase Student Retention, Persistence, and Graduation Outcomes

Strategies:

• 1.1.1 Implement a new academic advising model for all students with an enhanced structure for at-risk students.

  • Initiative: Academic Advising Transformation: Blended Model
     

• 1.1.2 Streamline and strengthen academic program offerings to align with student demand, outcomes and career opportunities.

  • Initiative: Academic Program Review

  • Initiative: Integrated Innovation Network – Tech Hub, AI Institute, and Faculty Technology Center
     

• 1.1.3 Establish St. John’s as a leader in market-driven online and flexible learning opportunities.

  • Initiative: Global Pathways to Student Success: Expanding Equitable Access to Study Abroad

  • Initiative: Online Student Success and Engagement Model
     

• 1.1.4 Integrate comprehensive, student-centered support services into the student lifecycle to remove barriers to persistence and graduation.

  • Initiative: Integrated Student Support Framework
     

Goal 1.2: Strengthen Career Readiness and Post-Graduation Outcomes

Strategies:

• 1.2.1 Embed career development into academic advising processes and co-curricular experiences.

  • Initiative: Center for Professional Excellence: Integrating Career Readiness Across the University

  • Initiative: High-Impact Practice Assessment
     

• 1.2.2 Increase opportunities for student entrepreneurship and commercialization activities.

  • Initiative: Venture & Innovation Center (ViC): Expanding Student Entrepreneurship and Innovation 
     

Goal 1.3: Improve Student Experience, Engagement, and Sense of Belonging

Strategies:

• 1.3.1 Cultivate an inclusive campus culture that affirms diverse identities and lived experiences.

  • Initiative: High-Impact Practice Assessment
     

• 1.3.2 Empower students to co-create their university experience through leadership, feedback, and engagement.

  • Initiative: University-wide Student Advisory Council Network: Building a Culture of Partnership
     

• 1.3.3 Ensure consistent, high-quality service delivery across all student-facing units.

  • Initiative: Optimizing the St. John’s Student Journey and Experience

Key Performance Indicators

• % First-to-second-year retention rate - overall

• % First-to-second-year retention rate - LST

• % First-to-second-year retention - undecided majors

• % First-to-second-year retention rate - high-need students

• % Undergraduate year-to-year persistence rate - overall

• % Four-year graduation rate

• % Six-year graduation rate

• % of graduates with outcomes aligned with career goals

• % of graduates employed, in grad/prof school, or pursuing service oppty w/in 6 mths of graduation

• % of students completing experiential learning activity before graduation

• % of students rating student satisfaction as "satisfied"/"very satisfied"

• # of the Quality of Interactions Mean Indicator score for first-year students (on a 60-point scale)

• # of the Quality of Interactions Mean Indicator score for senior students (on a 60-point scale)

• % of students reporting they are generally/very satisfied (increase) with overall campus belonging

• % of students reporting they are generally/very satisfied with personal sense of belonging