Student Success Transformation Initiative
Overview
CU Denver has worked during the 2024-25 academic year with the National Institute for Student Success (NISS) to consider new strategies to strengthen our comprehensive approach to student well-being, academic success, and career readiness. NISS provided a comprehensive assessment with recommendations for maximizing efficiencies and excellence in CU Denver’s student support frameworks.
Our commitment to being an equity-serving institution is reflected in our goal of continually improving learner support systems and eliminating student success gaps. We aim to build upon our strengths and NISS recommendations to provide proactive, coordinated, and scalable support in critical areas of first-year experience, advising, data use, and student communications.
To that end, CU Denver in May 2025 launches the Student Success Transformation initiative. It launched with a May 22 Town Hall at which Chancellor Ken Christensen and Interim Provost Pam Jansma introduced the effort. It continues with four working groups that will meet through summer and fall 2025, with further progress and outcomes to be determined and continued thereafter.
Working Groups
- Standardization of Student Advising
- First-Year Experiences
- Early Action on Student Challenges
- DFWI Rates
Resources
- May 22 Town Hall recording (use password $1#X%*%k)
- May 22 Town Hall presentation
- NISS Diagnostic & Playbook: CU Denver
- Executive Summary of NISS Diagnostic & Playbook: CU Denver
Questions?
Contact the Project Operations Team