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Access to Success

This report examines the Access to Success (A2S) initiative aimed at increasing first-year retention rates and closing retention gaps among diverse student populations at UWM. By offering over 40 elective seminars across various disciplines, we focus on equipping students with essential academic skills. Analysis reveals that participants in these seminars demonstrate higher satisfaction and better re-enrollment rates compared to non-participants. The findings also suggest a need for ongoing assessment and improvement of the program based on both faculty and student perceptions of its value.

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Access to Success

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  1. Access to Success First-Year Transition Courses Robin Weigert Kelby Spann Jeffrey Merrick

  2. Access to Success Campus Goals • Increase first-year retention rates • Eliminate the retention gap between students of color and white students. • Eliminate the retention gap between students placing at developmental versus college level math and English

  3. How Freshman Seminars Contribute to A2S Goals • 40+ elective disciplinary seminars (capacity = 20) in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences on a wide variety of engaging topics, with emphasis on the academic skills that students need to succeed at UWM

  4. Performance and Retention Impact of Freshman Seminars • %s for participants > %s for non-participants on both satisfactory performance & re-enrollment • %s > average for interventions • and > average for voluntary interventions for target population • but not for all categories of students in all schools/colleges \

  5. continued • Student evaluations show consistently higher scores on challenging and discussion, lower scores on campus resources. • Studies show modest positive impact on retention, more for students with 2-3 point GPA than others.

  6. Continuous Improvement: Aspirational Models • Freshman Seminar Program Advisory Committee work in progress: • Founding documents • Student evaluations • Fall 2008 syllabuses • Performance and retention info • Focus groups • Objectives and options

  7. Focus Question: Perceptions and Value • What is the faculty/instructional staff perception of the intervention?  Value? • \What is the student success staff perception of the value of the intervention?  Value? • What is the student perception of the value of the intervention?  Value?

  8. Focus Question: Increasing Participation Strategies • How do students find out about the service? • How/when are students referred to the service by faculty/instructional staff/student success staff?

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