Goals

• Achieve 2030 graduation rate goals

  INITIATIVES	PROGRESS
  Strategic deployment of ARC programming offerings to boost graduation rates	Over the last 7 years, HESA participants that earned the program scholarship have had higher 1st to 2nd year retention rates (avg 92.7%) compared to first-year students that did not participate in HESA (avg 88.5%).   2024-2025 ARC Annual Report
  Black Student Success Initiative (BSSI)/Kessler/Pipeline programming; PPAC	Secured a $1.1 million renewal grant to continue providing "wrap-around" support for first-generation, limited-income students
  Set strategic, bold, data-informed goals
  Enhance UWP outcomes and boost first-year writing access and success	Restructuring of developmental writing courses appears to have had a significant impact on reducing DFW rates in those courses, potentially by as much as 20%
  Increase credit hours & campus-wide seminars; online course conversions; High DFW course redesigns	XCITE led R'MSI Inclusive Teaching Program with 20 faculty members. This is a two year program, and they are half-way towards redesigning their courses and addressing their faculty development needs.
  Strategic partnerships with campus units
  Build ecologies of student support	Launched Retention Action Committees (RACs)
  UIA projects through data-informed, intentional student support & faculty collaboration	UIA Academic Recovery Initiative

• Eliminate equity gaps by 2030

  INITIATIVES	PROGRESS
  Set strategic, bold, data-informed goals	Each DUE subunit produces data in alignment with each of the five strategic goals
  Expand inclusive pedagogy	R'MSI Initiative Digital Accessibility Course Support
  Develop equity-focused teaching/data-informed continuous improvement/ADT engagement	Academy of Distinguished Teachers (ADT) hosted a visiting scholar, Dr. Martha Alibali, on the impact of embodied learning tools (gesture, drawing) on student's learning outcomes. 50 attendees from across departments learned about best practices in using these strategies for teaching students of different knowledge levels.
  DFW course redesigns through RIDLE; reduce DFW rates in general & by subgroup in UWP & campus	86% (31/36) of participants in the Accelerator Program passed a high DFW course on their second-attempt.
  Strategic Advising Support/Redesign	Expanded Peer Academic Advising
  BSSI/Kessler programming/Pre-Professional Advising Center (PPAC) /Writing And Foster Youth Alliance (WAFYA)/Pipeline programs
  Strategic deployment of ARC programming offerings to reduce equity gaps
  Expand university-wide writing support	Buscadores program continues to grow
  UIA projects through data-informed, intentional student support & faculty collaboration/promote grants for cross-institutional innovation	Academic Recovery Initiative
  Provide expanded opportunities to increase the numbers of students participating in:  Honors Research  Internships Learning Communities Community Engaged Learning	The Tilga Scholarship is enabling students who have unpaid summer internships funding to support this experience. Global Accelerator is opening up opportunties for students to engage in internship opportunities with major corporations virtually. Students earn academic credit and do not have internship related expenses.

• Boost student participation in High Impact Practices

  INITIATIVES	PROGRESS
  Elevate community engaged learning opportunities in partnership with Schools/Colleges/Units
  Expand capacity of students served	The Global Career Accelerator (GCA) scales work-based learning curricular experiences for UCR students from all majors and levels.  Students earn badges and acquire significant workforce ready skills.
  Strategic partnerships between UE & existing campus structures (i.e., E&G programs, learning communities, etc.)
  Systematically collect data on high impact practices & other academic engagement opportunities	Summary reports on PPAC, Undergraduate Research Symposium, and R'Courses
  Marketing/recruiting
  Set strategic, bold, data-informed goals

• Improve sense of inclusion, belonging, servingness, and respect, across demographics

  INITIATIVES	PROGRESS
  Expand inclusive pedagogy	A-Team accessibility remediation support, consisting of 12 undergraduate students,  has remediated over 5,100 documents in support of equity and inclusive efforts.
  BSSI/Kessler programming/WAFYA/Pipeline programs	BSS impact report
  UIA projects through data-informed, intentional student support & faculty collaboration/promote grants for cross-institutional innovation
  Realize the various institutional identities as an R1, HSI, HSRU, AANAPISI, Seal-certified, Pell, First-Generation student serving university	The first generation initiative aims to create community, and support social and professional development. The committee hosts quarterly activities, workshops and events in collaboration with other campus departments, focused on retention of first gen students here at UCR.
  Scale validating practices and policies; elevate a culture of servingness across campus
  UWP DEI workgroup ABIDE
  Set strategic, bold, data-informed goals

• Improve perceived ROI and willingness to choose UCR again, across demographics

  INITIATIVES	PROGRESS
  Expand faculty use of learning outcomes	XCITE has been training the faculty in RMSI on the design and use of learning outcomes in Canvas
  Elevate Honors program impact and reach/ARC & PPAC programming
  Lead a robust storytelling campaign about student success	Highlighted Marshall and Goldwater scholars
  Promote community/workforce readiness & pipeline programs across UE structures	Launched Career Readiness Workgroup in collaboration with the Division of Undergraduate Education, XCITE, Career Center, Student Affairs, UCR faculty, and more.