Campus Connections
Campus Connections (CC) is a multidisciplinary service learning course at CSU where undergraduate students serve as mentors to youth. Students from all majors work one-on-one with youth ranging from 11-18 to tackle a broad range of challenges. Youth are referred from schools, the juvenile justice system, human services, or directly from family members, and work […]
Student Recreation Center
The 2017 report examines the relationship between campus recreation activity (i.e., recreation center visits and intramural participation) and academic success for the 2015-2016 academic year. Overall, half of all enrolled undergraduates visited the recreation center and 12% playedon an intramural team. Undergraduate students who visited the recreation center at least once or played on at least one […]
Access Center
This report describes the demographics as well as higher education access and success of Access Center students at CSU. College access is measured by the college going rates for Access Center high schools and with CSU’s yield and admit rates for applicants from these high schools. The metrics used to assess student success are outcomes […]
Unsuccessful Course Completion and Student Success
These reports explore the association between an unsuccessful course completion (defined as earning a D, F, or U grade) in undergraduate courses on retention and graduation for first-time, full-time (FTFT) students. A student with no unsuccessful course completions has a predicted freshman retention rate of 95.2% compared to 88.0% for an identical student with at least […]
Momentum Year
In October 2018, the state of Colorado announced its participation in Complete College America’s National Momentum Pathways Project. The Momentum Pathways Project (Momentum Year) is comprised of several strategies aimed to help first-year students stay on-track for graduation, to build momentum through their first year, propelling them into their second and onward to graduation. Since 2011, IRP&E has been […]
Key Communities
The Key Communities are highly diverse first- and second-year learning communities designed to help CSU achieve its student success goals. Key is an effective way to support graduation for all students but particularly among historically underserved populations. First-year Key students live together on designated residence hall floors, and enroll in 2 to 3 of their […]
Residence Life
Residence Life Annual Assessment Reports provide information on the demographics and student success outcomes of different groups of students: (i) residence life students in a learning community, (ii) residence life students not in a learning community, and (iii) commuter students. In addition, a handful of supplementary reports provide more detailed information about student persistence rates, […]
Observed vs Predicted Persistence and Graduation
The April 2020 report explores differences between an undergraduate department’s observed second-fall persistence and six-year graduation rates and the department’s predicted rates, based on the demographics and high school GPA of the three most recent first-time, full-time (FTFT) cohorts. The intent of this analysis is to encourage conversation around policies and curriculum at the department […]
Credit Recovery Courses
Credit recovery courses (CRC) are sections designed to give students the chance to regain credits that are lost because of withdrawing from other courses during the semester. Recouping credits is an important option for students to stay on track for timely graduation and may also help students retain satisfactory academic performance for financial aid purposes. CRC sections begin […]
Honors Program
These reports provide an overview of the demographic breakdown of first-year, fall cohort students in the honors program along several categories over the last five years. Persistence and graduation rates among Honors students are explored in the 2016 and 2015 reports. Overall, students who are female, non-residents, and STEM majors are well-represented in the Honors […]