Dashboards for Student

Success and

AchievementSri Sitharaman

CSU Fall 2020 Quick Facts

• 8,372 students

• Undergraduate: 6,877 Graduate: 1,495

• Entering Freshman: 1,347

• Adult Students: 35%

• Women: 62% Men: 38%

• Full-Time: 63% Part-Time: 37%

• White: 47%

• African-American:39% Hispanic: 7%

U.S. News & World Report 2021 Rankings

•# 31 Top Public Schools

•# 47 Top Performer in Social Mobility

•# 73 Regional Universities South

Enrollment Trend

CSU Retention & Graduation Rates

First Time Full Time Freshman One-Year Retention Rate Trend

71.2%

73.3%

74.8%

72.9%

71.5%

74.9%

2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020

First Time Full Time Freshman Six-Year Graduation Rate Trend

30.3% 30.2%32.4%

37.7%39.5%

38.0%

2009-2015 2010-2016 2011-2017 2012-2018 2013-2019 2014-2020

Major Initiatives

• Gateways to Completion

• 15 to Finish

• Momentum Approach

Gateways to Completion (G2C)

• Implement evidence-based plan for improving

teaching, student learning and success in high

enrollment courses with high rates of DFWI

grades especially for low-income, first

generation and historically underrepresented

students

G2C Courses at CSU

Four courses for redesign:

– COMM 1110 Public Speaking

– ECON 2105 Macroeconomics

– ENGL 1101 English Composition

– MATH 1111 College Algebra

G2C Analysis

Course Redesign Framework

• Pedagogic Changes

– Active and Experiential

Learning

• Curricular Changes

– Inclusive

pedagogies/curriculum

• Course Structure

Changes

– Mode, Access,

Assessment

• Integration of

Academic Success

Initiatives or High

Impact Practices

– Academic success

initiatives, HIP

G2C Strategies

• Expanding SI/Peer Leader program

• Developing online professional development

course for contingent faculty

2 Year FTFT Freshman Cohort Retention Rate

Core Areas

• Area A English

• Area A Math

• A – E Core

• Area B Communication

• Area B Other

• Area C Fine Arts

• Area C Humanities

• Area D Math/Sci/Tech

• Area D Science -

Lecture/Lab Combo

• Area D Science - Lab

Only

• Area D Science – Lecture

w/ Opt lab

• Area D Science - Non-lab

• Area E Behavioral

Science

• Area E History

• Area E Political Science

• Area E World Cultures

• Foreign Language -

Elementary

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Next Steps

• Dashboards for Biology and Computer

Science

• Equity Index

Equity Index

ENGL 1101

• Male: 22.87%

• Female: 13.07%

• Eq. gap: 9.8%

• Gap size = 9.8% x 2046 male students = 201 students (about

50/year)

• Pell eligible: 21.33%

• Not PE: 14.14%

• Eq gap = 21.33% - 14.14% = 7.19%

• Gap size = 7.19% x 2114 PE students = 152 students (about

38/year)

Equity IndexCourse Avg Yearly

EnrollmentRange of Yearly

Rates4-year overall

averagePrimary Inequity

CategoryInequityNumber

(avg)

NP Gr Rate Trends

BIOL 1215K 653 24-27% 25.52% Race/ethnicity 33 Increasing

CHEM 1151 381 18-39% 25.56% Race/ethnicity 19 Increasing

CHEM 1211 391 23-54% 43.41% Pell eligibility 26 Decreasing

CHEM 1212 190 16-31% 24.64% Race/ethnicity 12 Decreasing

COMM 1110 1322 17-19% 17.87% Gender (male) 36 Increasing

CPSC 1301/1301K 297 35-41% 37.29% Race/ethnicity 26 Increasing

GEOL 1110 153 14-42% 32.13% Race/ethnicity 13 Flat

GEOL 1121 136 32-40% 36.16% Race/ethnicity 10 Increasing

MATH 1001 274 23-28% 25.23% Race/ethnicity 17 Decreasing (very slightly)

MATH 1113 526 25-28% 25.92% Gender (male) 17 Decreasing (very slightly)

MATH 1131 172 28-49% 37.12% Gender (male) 10 Decreasing

PHYS 1111 129 38-36% 30.27% Pell eligibility 8 Increasing

POLS 1101 1247 16-19% 17.99% Pell eligibility 35 Increasing

Equity Index

• Marching Towards Equity – Lessons

Learned Sessions (5 Wednesdays March)

• General Education Assessment and

Comprehensive Program Review

• Questions??

• sri@columbusstate.edu