The Chico Graduation Initiative Team works to identify and remove barriers to timely progress to graduation, consistent with a high quality, meaningful undergraduate degree. Specifically, the Graduation Initiative Team is responsible for tracking the progress of our campus on 4- and 6-year graduation targets and reduction of the graduation gap between underserved students: first-generation, low income and minority students and their better-resourced counterparts.
The Graduation Initiative Team meets its aims by:
- reading and reflecting on the national literature on trends in higher education, degree completion and degree quality;
- consulting and convening subject matter experts on our own campus, and across the CSU, regarding students’ experiences at our own and other campuses;
- leveraging campus data to inform decision-making;
- working with colleagues in Student Affairs and Academic Affairs to design and implement interventions, programs and policy shifts that:
- drive actionable results,
- inform effective resource allocation,
- explore pathways to student success,
- reveal unidentified barriers,
- enhance the student experience,
- contribute to timely graduation, and;
- disseminating the results of our work to colleagues across campus and beyond.
