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

Quick Tip

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

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 at Oneonta

Building a Diverse Campus Staff by Directly Recruiting Recent Graduates

This university responded to a lack of diversity among its nonacademic staff by developing the Dragon Corp Program to recruit graduating students from underrepresented groups into entry-level campus positions.

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.

Stockton University

University Partners With Businesses for Enriching Summer Work Experience

A university uses the relationship-building experience from its community engagement efforts to build a summer workforce development program that benefits the local economy and university students predominantly representing underserved populations.

Sul Ross State University

Growing Enthusiasm for STEM Through Engaging Teachers and Instruction

Using a multidisciplinary approach, this university is building a pipeline of teachers in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines from underrepresented populations. It is also inspiring and educating the next generation of STEM students by bringing developments in the sciences and math to the Latinx and Indigenous communities.

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Texas A&M University-San Antonio

Developing Career-Ready and Community-Minded Students Is the Mays Center Mission

The Mays Center for Experiential Learning and Community Engagement provides enhanced learning opportunities and access to resources and relationships in order to develop students into career-ready and community-minded graduates. Whether you are a student, faculty or staff member, alumni, a nonprofit community partner, or an employer looking to recruit talent for your organization, the Mays Center for Experiential Learning and Community Engagement has something for you.

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Building a Pipeline of Diverse Teachers for the Next Generation of K–12 Students

To counter the small percentage of men of color in the education field, this university professor created an enterprising, vigorous program to support the pursuit of their degree and their profession as teacher leaders for the next generation of increasingly diverse students.