Many students seeking opportunity through higher education face barriers enrolling and completing college. This is especially true for those students from lower-income backgrounds. These barriers can include challenges with academic readiness, financial constraints, and a lack of college guidance counseling when in high school. In 2012, GSU launched the Summer Success Academy (SSA) to address such barriers.
Late last year, the National Institute for Student Success (NISS) at Georgia State University was awarded a $7.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Postsecondary Student Success Program to investigate how chatbots can enhance student outcomes in first-year math and English courses.
This tutorial will guide you through the creation of multiple data visualizations that provide an overview of outcomes for HOPE scholarship students.
This tutorial will demonstrate how to create key performance indicators and data visualizations that offer insights into DFW rates in critical, high-enrollment courses.
This tutorial will guide you through an example of how to operationalize data for student success. Hypothetical institutional data of first-time, full-time students will be used to create a set of easily digestible data visualizations that help identify majors with student progression challenges. An example report with the visualizations is available, as are the example data if you want to follow along.
In 2010, Georgia State University (GSU) administrators discovered that more than 1,000 students were being dropped each semester due to unpaid tuition and fee balances. To address this, GSU piloted and subsequently implemented a no-application microgrant program for students who were in good academic standing and had a modest unpaid balance. Eligibility requirements and logistics evolved over the years, but overall, the selection process can be thought of as operating as follows:
Funded by the Georgia Lottery, the Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally (HOPE) scholarship is awarded to Georgia residents who demonstrate academic excellence. Over the last 30 years, HOPE has assisted more than 2.1 million students by covering part of their tuition at eligible higher education institutions (Georgia State Finance Commission, n.d.). From 2012 to 2017, over 15,000 first-time, full-time students enrolled at GSU with the HOPE scholarship. Unfortunately, a significant percentage of students were losing the scholarship each year (see Fig. 1). While some were never able to regain HOPE, there was a group of students for whom a little support went a long way. In 2012, GSU introduced the Keep HOPE Alive (KHA) program to help students regain their scholarships.
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