Since 2015, OSU has undertaken two major Undergraduate Student Success Initiative (USSI) efforts: 1) a fundraising initiative in partnership with the OSU Foundation to raise $150 million to support student success and 2) a series of academic interventions intended to bolster student success directly through expanded student support services, particularly related to advising and financial aid, or indirectly through changes in learning models and provision to instructors and administrators of better and more timely data.

On March 7, 2019 they hosted an all day Summit, which I really recommend anyone going next year, great for networking, connecting, collaborating and sharing with other student support folks on campus! Video from the event:  https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_inr77ekl. The agenda has  links to live streaming too.

Sense of Belonging: Supporting Student Success Through Cultural Resource Centers 
Sarah Garcia & Cindy Konrad, Diversity & Cultural Engagement  

• Students need all layers of belonging:  university belonging and sense of spirit on campus to group(s) belonging. Cultural Centers help with this belonging through Peer mentoring, space to resist discrimination and isolation, creating forums for student voices, building community and relationships, cultural nourishment, positive identity development.
• Barriers students face:   cultural shock/microaggressions;  lack of whole self spaces (various identities); lack of supportive messaging from campus; lack of cultural relevant curriculum; system of dominance embedded in the institution (white patriarchy, Heteronormativity)
• Impact on students:  impostor syndrome, mental health/increased stress; extra labor (more work to find/form groups of people like them); pushed out of desired majors; lower retention and grad rates.
• Ways to support:  increased cultural competencies beyond a training attendance; building relationships across campus/refer students to people; Listening and validating students (thank the student for sharing before offering solutions); commitment to continues learning and transformation; supporting their learning advancement (help them question what they think they can/cant do); validating curriculum (more than adding a multicultural week)
• Q/A: 
  • We need more images of people of color someone asked, but we don’t want to toss up a totem POC to pretend we are diverse. How do we do this? Sarah suggested going to various student groups on campus, meeting them and asking them to help campaign for you, perhaps offer money toward travel funds or something that would be helpful toward their success.
  • think about whats your sphere of influence? how can you leverage it to better service marginalize students?
  • Also Note: Sarah Garcia did her master on this topic and would be a great speaker!
  • See this handout – for a quick reference that summarizes how each cultural center seeing the barrier and suggestions or support!

Data for the Undergraduate Student Success Initiative 
Chrysanthemum Hayes, Institutional Analytics and Reporting | Dan Larson, Student Affairs
Link to live streaming this session

• This sessions was the unveiling of the Undergraduate Student Success Initiative Metrics dashboard (SSI0100) in CORE   
• Includes  six metrics:  UG Enrollment, First-Year Retention, 4 year Graduation rates, 6 year graduation rates, First-Year retention for junior transfer students,  % of students with High Financial Need.
• Views can be either university, primary college, and primary major
• Student demographic areas: Legal Sex, Students of Color, Pell-eligible, Residency, First Generation, Veteran Status, and students with High Financial Need
• The IAR Data Dictionary has all the definitions of these categories. 
• . Additionally, users are able to navigate the metrics through a variety of views including visualizing the data as a graph or heat map and also seeing the results in a tabular format. A tabular view of the metrics is available down to the major level for most metrics.
• Who can access? OSU employees with CORE access, this is for internal use not to be printed, presented globally and shared.
• there are NO individual students = aggregated data only
• want to learn more or how people are using this? Come to their open data Lab in Kerr 094 on Fridays 12-2pm 

OSU’s Peer Mentoring Programs and Student Success MU Main Lounge
Chris Ervin, Writing Center | Beth Filar-Williams & Jane Nichols, Valley Library

We hosted a peer mentoring round table, and though it was a strange location in the MU Main Lounge filled with students studying and fires going on, we had a few stragglers find us. We connected with Housing & Dining’s Charlie Beckers running the academic learning assistant program and with an instructor in IB who has both LA (lab assistants) and TI (UG who help TAs, not sure what the I is for?) . Also there was Alex Giltelman  – VP for UG education, part of the faculty mentoring program. Small group and range of peer mentoring but we had a lot in common: struggles with funding, solid assessment for these softer skills and how much time training takes to do it well.  overall we learned, there are some excellent peer mentoring opportunities on campus. AND. we all invest a fair amount of time training not just for the job but academic success and beyond OSU so called hard or soft skills. Check out Iowa Growth Model.

AND BRYANS NOTES ARE HERE:  https://wiki.library.oregonstate.edu/confluence/display/LEAD/2019/03/19/2019+Undergraduate+Student+Success+Summit+-+March+7+-+Bryan