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Why Success Initiatives Are Smart Business

The primary and most essential measure of student success work is its ability to meaningfully improve the academic trajectories and long-term outcomes of students. Its full value extends further, however, strengthening not only student progress but the institution’s overall financial health…

Summer Success Academy

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.

Chatbot Launch

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.

HOPE Tutorial

This tutorial will guide you through the creation of multiple data visualizations that provide an overview of outcomes for HOPE scholarship students.

DFW Tutorial

This tutorial will demonstrate how to create key performance indicators and data visualizations that offer insights into DFW rates in critical, high-enrollment courses.

Time to Degree Diagnostic Tutorial

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.