Strategic Pillar I
Student Success
150 Forward Reaching Higher Activation
To support Student Success, the strategic plan activation includes a transformational goal and other new or refined objectives, a roadmap to achieving the goal and objectives, and focused initiative areas supported by the transformation management office.
Transformational Goal
Increase graduation rate to 80%
Refined Initiatives:
- Provide at least one experiential learning opportunity for every undergraduate student
- Ensure AI literacy for all undergraduates
- Grow graduate student enrollment by 2,000
Roadmap to Success
Integrated student success approach
An Integrated Student Success approach including targeted financial assistance, increased academic support and opportunities aligned with the state's workforce needs, and comprehensive wrap-around student services.
Support for data-enabled decision making
Developing and utilizing centralized, accurate and robust data dashboards to identify students who need academic assistance and providing proactive academic support to those students.
Focused Initiative Areas
Initiative leads for each area coordinate strategy, implementation and progress with executive sponsors and the Transformation Management Office to ensure success.
- Experiential learning
- AI literacy
- Retention and graduation
- Graduate enrollment
- Data capabilities
Transformation Management Office (TMO)
Supports the full activation of the three pillars by ensuring strategic alignment, coordinating campuswide collaborations, tracking and reporting milestones, and accelerating the work.
Student Success Priorities, Goals and Objectives
The University of Arkansas will offer unparalleled access to a holistic education that is designed to help our students grow, contribute and thrive throughout their lives and in their communities from matriculation to graduation. To achieve this, the university will focus on these four Student Success priorities:
- Academic success & intellectual engagement
- Career readiness
- Affordability
- Wellness & belonging
Academic Success & Intellectual Engagement
Ensure students are aware of practices that lead to academic success, understand the opportunity to experience the full array of intellectual engagement afforded through a college education. Students will know where to find resources to help them design a personal plan for success that marries personal, professional and intellectual goals.
Career Readiness
Create opportunities for every student to define and attain their individual career or post-graduate pathway.
Affordability
Make education more affordable, particularly for Arkansans with financial need, thereby demonstrating that the university adds value to the entire state by offering an accessible education that yields a significant, lifelong and generational return on investment.
Well-being and Belonging
Ensure students feel a sense of belonging in the campus community and form lasting ties with the university. Ensure students have access to, are aware of and utilize university programs that promote their mental, physical and financial wellness, and civic engagement.
Transformational Goal
- Increase graduation rate to 80%**
Objectives:
- Increase retention and graduation rates across demographics including narrowing of gaps between populations
- Increased financial support for all students and particularly in meeting cost of attendance for students in need
- In support of this goal, the university is working to increase scholarship funding for Arkansans in financial need by $200 million with the Land of Opportunity Scholarship, providing additional access to deserving students in Arkansas while helping them stay in school and graduate with ongoing mentoring, academic coaching, financial planning assistance, and career readiness support.
- Provide at least one experiential learning opportunity for every undergraduate student***
- Ensure AI literacy for all undergraduates***
- Grow graduate student enrollment by 2,000***
- Improved time-to-completion rates for doctoral students
- Increased success rates for historically dropped, withdrawn and failed courses
- Growing percentage of students served by career coaching, student involvement and participation in high-impact practices
- Continuous reporting of post-graduate plans and outcomes by majority of student body
**Refined as a part of Phase II: 150 Forward Reaching Higher
***Refined or added as a part of Phase III: 150 Forward Reaching Higher activation.
Student Success Metrics