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The Student Success Strategy

The strategies ensuring student success and satisfaction supplement and reinforce our core desire to prepare UB students to become a new kind of leader for tomorrow’s challenge. This discussion begins with ideas about how we improve our admissions practices to enroll higher quality and more diverse students over time. We then discuss a more expanded program of co-curricular experiences that supplement and complement the new UB curriculum. It will be a goal for all aspects of this strategy to implement programs and services that will be accessible, effective and appropriate. In the end, these strategies should create a learning experience that will have students becoming our most outspoken advocates for the way UB has treated them, has made their college years enjoyable and has prepared them for success in their future endeavors.

What we share in this summary are the objectives framed as questions contained in the strategy. Later in February, these potential objectives will be framed as questions will be written as statements of action the university will pursue as a community together.

Student Success Questions

  1. How will UB implement an informed admissions plan that attracts diverse and increasingly selective student cohorts at all levels? (Goal II)
  2. How will UB implement distinctive theme-based co-curricular experiences that improve the UB learning and student life environment? (Goal II)
  3. How will UB best complete Finish- in-Four implementation? (Goals II and IV)
  4. Should UB implement a need-based aid program and other measures that reduce Pell-eligible undergraduate student indebtedness by 20% by 2015/2016? (Goal II)
  5. How will UB best improve the services and support systems for graduate students across the university? (Goals I and II)
  6. Should UB implement the Heart of the Campus initiate as the highest priority capital project? (Goals II and IV)
  7. Should UB upgrade the Athletics Program to a peer public AAU competitive level?
    (Goals II, III and IV)
  8. How can UB expand recreation facilities to levels comparable with peer AAU schools?
    (Goals II and IV)