Slides from a brainstorming session for developing a student success dashboard for use by department chairs.

1. Student Success Dashboard Design:
Making Student Success Data Available
at Unit Level
A Brainstorming Session for Department Chairs
Sukhwant Jhaj

2. What information do you need to
support student success as a
department chair?

3. Information for Action
VS.
Information for Reporting
Need DIRECTIONAL clarity

4. What is Portfolio of Initiatives?
Created by Lowell Bryan to
Develop strategy in a dynamic and unpredictable environment
Elements:
Rigorous Search
Initiatives with the highest possibility of success
Diagnosis and design
Focus on action
Testing through experimentation
Just in time implementation
Support champions
Importance of passionate advocates
Flexibility
Scale up successful projects, Winding down unsuccessful projects
Changing course when needed

5. Student Success Portfolio of Initiatives
•Assess the Effectiveness of Existing Policies, •Address Students’ Financial Concerns
Procedures, and Services. (admissions
req./process, application deadline, bursars
•¡Exito! Latino student success
hold)
•Easing the transition to college using Peer
•Support Early Identification of Students at
Mentoring
Risk
•Improve the Persistence of Freshmen Living
•Intentional Advising and Charting a Pathway
on Campus
to Degree Completion
•(Last Mile Committee, degree maps, degree
map mile stone tracking, unified advising •Make Student Success Data Available at Unit
records) Level
•Improve Communication with Students •Reduce Courses with Preponderance (20%)
of D, W, F, I, X, NP Grades
•Student Success Center (long term goal)
•Manage Capacity of Programs and Course
Offerings
•Address Needs of Students Entering PSU
with a High School GPA below 3.0

7. Make Student Success Data Available
at Unit Level
Colleges and departments currently lack cohort
based student success information and metrics at
department/program, service, and college level.
Ensure that matrices are developed to serve unit-
level needs and to address the
persistence, success, and quality of experience of
under-represented students.

8. #1 Student Success
Academic
Preparedness and
Plan
Student
Success
Well Being
Connectedness

9. #2 Evolving Assessment Structure
Prior Learning End of Year E-Portfolio
Survey Survey Assessment
University Student Data Warehouse
- Student Retention
- Academic Performance, Fin. Aid

10. We will write down what we need
<Discuss>
We will establish categories of information we
need
<This provides us a cognitive map for
designing the dashboard>
We will prioritize what we need
<What is urgent, needed, or nice to have?>
We will collectively ask for what we need