Maybe it's us? An organizational and systems level approach to reducing barriers to student success.
Start Date
13-2-2025 1:30 PM
End Date
13-2-2025 2:30 PM
Document Type
Presentation
Description
The author will be presenting a deep dive on the project and subsequent publication "Systemic Solutions Driving Retention and Graduation Efforts at a Large, Selective Private Institution: A Scalable Project for Student Success" by Ricky Urgo and Sonja Ardoin. Through the lens of an organizational analysis, the author will provide tangible takeaways for practitioners and faculty to bring back to their campuses and replicate. This is an important and necessary venture, as institutions increase their attention and resources on the recruitment and retention of first generation and working class students. Institutions were not constructed with these populations in mind, but we can make organizational, structural, and systemic changes to better serve these students, especially as our shortcomings as universities disproportionately impact this community (Flaherty, 2023; Urgo & Ardoin, 2024). Simultaneously, the author hopes to encourage exploration of the following:1) identifying new institutional barriers to student success, 2) improving understanding of how stakeholders navigate institutional infrastructure, 3) creating a culture where auditing internal practices and knowledge bases are commonplace, 4) uplifting student voice and experience, and 5) creating greater outcomes for all students.
Maybe it's us? An organizational and systems level approach to reducing barriers to student success.
The author will be presenting a deep dive on the project and subsequent publication "Systemic Solutions Driving Retention and Graduation Efforts at a Large, Selective Private Institution: A Scalable Project for Student Success" by Ricky Urgo and Sonja Ardoin. Through the lens of an organizational analysis, the author will provide tangible takeaways for practitioners and faculty to bring back to their campuses and replicate. This is an important and necessary venture, as institutions increase their attention and resources on the recruitment and retention of first generation and working class students. Institutions were not constructed with these populations in mind, but we can make organizational, structural, and systemic changes to better serve these students, especially as our shortcomings as universities disproportionately impact this community (Flaherty, 2023; Urgo & Ardoin, 2024). Simultaneously, the author hopes to encourage exploration of the following:1) identifying new institutional barriers to student success, 2) improving understanding of how stakeholders navigate institutional infrastructure, 3) creating a culture where auditing internal practices and knowledge bases are commonplace, 4) uplifting student voice and experience, and 5) creating greater outcomes for all students.
