What is Student Success?

Student Success at Fairmont State is

• Increase first-year retention rates

• Increase second-year retention rates

• Increase six-year graduation rates

• Augment credit hour productivity

• Enhance 4-year scholarships

• Increasing funding for student athletes​

​What does a student success path look like at Fairmont State?

​Complete Year 1

​Complete Year 2

Graduate w/i 6 yrs

Take an academically and student appropriate number of credit hours each semester

There are many times when a student is on a plateau - we're not focusing on those today but I do want to acknowledge that fact.

We are not highlighting the "messy middle"​

Promote campus and other support resources to students

Promote

​* Images on this slide and those that follow were downloaded from Fairmont State University Twitter Feed

Directly hand off a student to someone you have a relationship with in another office

Direct

Provide information to students about campus resources or activities - verbally, in your syllabus, or just in time

Link

Use Navigate to link students to a referral, document the situation appropriately in Navigate

​​Refer

​Promote people, tools, and services to students

Move students to an action they need to take for their success.

Provoke

Allow students to learn from their failure and mistakes. Teach them how to use a failure as an opportunity to learn

Revise to Resiliency

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Used sparingly and appropriately, physically show students the way to participate in support activities.

Accompany/Do for

​Students are not the same - you don't have to treat them that way. While challenging, you need to make appropriate adjustments to support students while they all accomplish the same learning outcomes

Fair isn't equal

​"One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make someone else happy.

One of the best ways to make someone else happy is to be happy yourself."

~Gretchen Rubin​

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Praise

​When your class performs well on something, genuinely celebrate that together. When a student does something great, recognize them for that in some public manner.

Celebrate Together

Formally recognize students by noting significant improvements, positive work, use of "power" skills by making a note in Navigate and sharing with the student

Recognize

​Don't keep praise to yourself. We all need feedback - positive as well as corrective. If you see something, say something.

Speak it!

​Praise