Student Success & Engagement

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Student Success & EngagementWe will have a diverse and culturally responsible student body that is fully engaged in the SIU Carbondale experience, thriving in the face of robust academic challenges, and that has gained practical skills to allow them to enter the workforce as effective ambassadors for our University.

OBJECTIVES: DEFINES WHAT SIU WILL ACHIEVE

  • Objective 1: Increase student population
  • Objective 2: Increase retention/persistence rates
  • Objective 3: Increase graduation rates
  • Objective 4: Create a strategy for fostering post-graduation success in our students
  • Objective 5: Cultivate a positive university environment
  • Objective 6: Enhance engagement in the learning experience in and out of the classroom by investing in resources and learning spaces (faculty, technology, new courses, facilities, improvements, experiential learning opportunities, etc.)
  • Objective 7: Investment in the needs of our students with efforts that begin before their arrival and continue after graduation
  • Objective 8: Strategic enrollment, retention, completion, career development and placement with specific focus on our campuses commitment to meeting student needs and goals

KEY INITIATIVES: HOW SIU WILL ACHIEVE ITS OBJECTIVES

  1. Expand outreach areas to different regions including Missouri, Kansas, and Texas
  2. Utilize current students and alumni during the recruitment cycles
  3. The offices of Admissions, Student Affairs, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will collaborate on at least one major outreach event each semester
  4. Implement a “Recruit Back the Pack” campaign for the fall semesters
  5. Implement a “Plan Ahead the Pack” campaign for the spring semesters
  6. Develop an intensive partnership with District 95 and other Southern Illinois districts to implement 7th and 8th grade planning campaigns
  7. Enrollment management task force will complete a comprehensive, viable, strategic enrollment management plan that is adopted by all key stakeholders
  8. Intentional career services: host workshops, mentor programs, placement into jobs/internships
  9. Develop student ambassador programs in all colleges and leadership training opportunities
  10. Build programming that assists with life skills and assisting students with building soft skills not learned in the classroom
  11. Host an all-campus event that includes the community (increase the number of social events in general)
  12. Identify opportunities for more alumni engagement and involvement with students
  13. Create more paid and unpaid research opportunities
  14. Strengthen and expand Living Learning Communities and Freshman Interest Groups
  15. Create summer programs that offer additional support
  16. Promote networking with national organizing, alums in industry, and professional organizations
  17. Work with the community to create more dynamic student life experiences in and around Carbondale
  18. Further enhance student advisement, early warning systems, tutoring opportunities, mentoring opportunities (student-to-student and student-to-faculty)
  19. Career objectives (recruiters/advisors/faculty): utilize career center partnership, tools/assessment for recruiters/advisors, and increase collaborations
  20. Increase gainful employment and internship programs for all graduates, enhance collaboration of Career Development Center with academic programs in collaboration with the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs