Promising Practices

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Reimagining Postsecondary Education

These Promising Practices focus on five key areas outlined by the Postsecondary Value Commission:

Equalize access to increase postsecondary value
Remove affordability as an impediment to postsecondary value
Eliminate completion gaps and strengthen post-college outcomes to ensure postsecondary value
Improve data to expose and address inequitable postsecondary value
Promote social justice by providing equitable postsecondary value

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Check out our Presidential PVC Task Force Talking Points to help guide engaging conversations about your institution’s Promising Practices.

Kean University

Degree-Seeking Success for English Language Learners

Kean University’s Supera program helps Latinx students complete their English as a Second Language requirements at the same time they take courses for their degrees, resulting in higher retention and graduation rates for these students.

Middle Georgia State University

Synergy Is Key to Creating a Job Force for the Future

A dual-enrollment program spearheaded by this university will educate high school students for the STEM jobs of the future at a nearby U.S. Air Force base.

Minnesota State University, Mankato

Casting a Wide Net of Support

When it comes to equalizing access to and affordability of postsecondary education, success hinges on developing a broad base committed to the cause

Montclair State University

Building Better Learning Behaviors in Students Through Coaching

An academic coaching program that supports students in the murky middle with adjunct faculty academic coaches who help these students reach their potential and graduate.

Murray State University

Enhancing Retention Through Dual-Advising Model

A collaborative campus initiative provides first-year students with two advisors: one who supports their experience in this university’s campus services, registration, and schedules, and another who guides them through their academic journey in their major and minor programs.

Northern Arizona University

Expanding Opportunity Through Greater Access

This university in the Southwest is articulating a transparent message of affordability and accessibility to students in underrepresented communities through its tuition-free initiative and admissions pilot program.

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Northern Arizona University

Using Data to Overcome Equity Gaps Through Improved Pedagogy

This university digs deep into disaggregated data to identify the equity gaps in its students’ learning outcomes and uses a development program it created to help faculty members remove the pedagogical barriers to their students’ academic success.

Oakland University

Revitalizing a City Through a University and Community Partnership

A partnership between this university and this urban center is building back the community’s economic and cultural pillars while enhancing experiential learning opportunities for university students.

Oakland University

Changing Culture and Practice Through Building an Equity Lens: From Data to Insight to Action

Oakland University is proactively building a deeper understanding of student success equity gaps through dissemination of a newly adapted innovative, the Student Success and Equity Dashboard, to boost student success measures, including retention and graduation, through targeted campus programs and initiatives.

Sam Houston State University

Supporting First-Gen Students From Application to Graduation

A Texas university leverages its existing services, faculty, staff, and alumni to provide a one-stop-shop experience where first-generation students can get the assistance they need throughout their postsecondary education journey.

State University of New York Brockport

Closing the Equity Gap by Creating a Unique Scholarship Program

To help shrink the equity gap, this university instituted a scholarship program to support students who not only exhibit financial need but demonstrate resilience and have overcome adversity.

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