• Advising
  • Advising workshops with faculty and staff.
  • Academic maps
  •  Highly organized advising structure and transition from freshmen advisor to professional advisor to faculty advisor.  
  • Faculty participation in early academic alert system.
• Building Community
  • Student mentoring programs (peer, faculty, alumni, community, industry, etc...).
  • Social activities via clubs and honor societies.  
  • Highlight and publicize student and faculty success.
• Pedagogy
  • Experiential learning opportunities.
  • Tutoring services.
  • Course redesign and new academic programs.
  • Additional teaching feedback for faculty.
  • Honors courses.
• Removing Bureaucratic Barriers to Success
  • Address curricular bottle-necks by providing additional academic support services for high fail-rate courses and adjust course schedule to offer more sections of high demand courses.
  • Ease the transition for transfer students.
  • Create early intervention programs for at-risk students.  
  • Remove bureaucracy and student "run-around" (i.e. make it easy to register, understand financial aid, pay bills, be advised, etc. and challenging to learn, not the other way around).