Draft Strategic Goals and Charges |
Task Force 1: Curriculum pathways |
| Goal: |
Reduce average units at graduation to at most 140. |
| Charge: |
Identify reasons why average units at graduation for CSULB students (currently around 147) are so high and identify ways to simplify major, General Education or other requirements and reduce excess units. Give specific attention to low income and underrepresented minority freshmen and transfer students. |
Task Force 2: Support Services |
| Goal: |
Improve retention rates for freshmen (at least 4%) and transfers (at least 8%) and eliminate at least one half of current “achievement gaps” in retention for low income and underrepresented minority students compared to other students. |
| Charge: |
Identify currently unmet student support needs giving specific attention to needs of low income and underrepresented minority freshmen and transfer students. Implement strategies to improve retention rates. Implement strategies to eliminate at least one half of current retention “achievement gaps” for low income and underrepresented minority students. |
Task Force 3: Advising |
| Goal: |
Ensure that all students, especially low income and underrepresented minority students receive needed advising. |
| Charge: |
Identify (a) key points in student careers when academic advising is critically important (b) effective strategies for delivering advising for CSULB, and (c) currently unmet student advising needs. Give specific attention to needs of low income and underrepresented minority students. Implement strategies to ensure that all CSULB students receive needed advising, especially low income and underrepresented minority students. Develop a means of routinely assessing the volume and effectiveness of CSULB advising, especially for low income and underrepresented minority students. |
Task Force 4: Faculty Development |
| Goal: |
Expand CSULB use of the most effective instructional methods that contribute to retention and learning, especially for low income and underrepresented minority students. |
| Charge: |
Identify most effective instructional methods that contribute to retention and learning, especially for low income and underrepresented minority students. Assess the match between current CSULB pedagogy and most effective methods. Implement faculty development to assist faculty in applying most effective instructional methods that are feasible. |
Task Force 5: Research and Evaluation |
| Goal: |
Support, through research and evaluation, all task forces in planning, implementing and evaluating campus efforts toward graduation goals. |
| Charge: |
Identify students most at risk of non-retention or academic probation. Support other task groups in analyses of student needs and in evaluating current and future campus interventions. Develop routine web-based reports on key indicators of student success such as progress to degree, disaggregated by income and underrepresented minority status. Design reports to be useful for specific departments, units and programs. Monitor and periodically report campus progress toward overall graduation rate goals.
Link to statistical reports. |
