Community for Excellence

April 16, 2024

The Community for Excellence (C4E) creates an asset-based approach to equitable learning experiences for students from their first semester to their last.

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Education Abroad

October 07, 2021

These studies explore the relationship with study abroad (SA) participation and graduation outcomes, namely to understand whether participating in study abroad significantly hinders graduation rates or time to graduation.  The most recent study found SA students who persisted to their …

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Access Center

October 06, 2021

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 …

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Unsuccessful Course Completion and Student Success

October 06, 2021

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 …

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Key Communities

October 05, 2021

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 …

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Associations Between Student Attributes and Success

June 15, 2021

The April 2021 report uses logistic regression models to illustrate the associations between student attributes (e.g., gender, race/ethnicity, high school GPA, etc.) and measures of persistence and graduation. We estimate how much more (or less) likely a student is to …

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