With the culmination of the first phase of the CSU’s Graduation Initiative in 2015, Chancellor Tim White and Executive Vice Chancellor Loren Blanchard and the CSU Board of Trustees encouraged Chico and our sister campuses across the state to embrace new, more ambitious goals for the graduating class of 2025. In July 2016, Chico State’s new President, Gayle Hutchinson, received new goals for increasing our 4- and 6-year graduation rates (2- and 4-year rates for transfer students).
Grad Initiative 2025 Measures | 2017 Rate | 2018 Rate | 2019 Rate | 2025 Goal |
Freshman 6-Year Graduation | 65.5% | 66.3% | 67.4% | 74% |
Freshman 4-Year Graduation | 29.7% | 29.3% | 33.1% | 41% |
Transfer 2-Year Graduation | 32.3% | 38.9% | 41.8% | 43% |
Transfer 4-Year Graduation | 77.4% | 78.6% | 79.2% | 86% |
Gap - Underrepresented Minority | 9.3% points | 7.4% points | 11.9% points | 0 |
Gap – Pell | 8.4% points | 8.8% points | 12.4% points | 0 |
The Chancellor’s Office convened a Graduation Symposium in September 2016 to emphasize the importance of student success and timely graduation and share best practices from campuses across the system.
In April 2017, President Gayle Hutchinson submitted a revised Long Term Student Success Plan for CSU, Chico (PDF) for reaching these bold targets. The CSU created a system-wide plan (PDF), and together with plans from each campus, submitted these to the State Department of Finance to access one-time funds aimed at advancing toward these goals.
The campus plan includes short-term efforts designed to improve decision-makers’ and students’ access to information that enables timely progress to a degree, and a targeted effort to remove barriers, provide additional classes, and otherwise support students’ ability to finish their studies in a timely manner without compromising the quality of their degrees.
Chico State is committed to student success and will invest any additional resources provided to us wisely and strategically in order to support the timely graduation of our students consistent with a rich and enriching college experience and a quality degree.
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