Moon Shot for Equity Fall 2024 Status Update
Navigate Website Update
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Over 200 Academic Programs were built into the Academic Planning Module of Navigate360 with the planning module being turned on in May 2024. During the months of June and July, data validation occurred for the Scheduling and Registration functions respectively for a tentative go live of Fall 2024. The introduction of the Academic Planning module will allow students to plan, schedule and register for courses all through the Navigate360 application.
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In alignment with Kean's migration to Microsoft, a new Navigate 360 Support Site has been built in Canvas and introduced to the Kean community.
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Kean has been regarded as a leading institution for its use of the Reporting functionality, many Reports of which are resulting in an automated intervention or student outreach.
17,623
Since November of 2023, 17,623 appointments were reported in Navigate.
6,744
6,744 individual students received support.
Over 800
Over 800 message, appointment and survey campaigns have been developed.
Transformational Learning Update (Kean Online)
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The Degree Completion initiative launched in Spring 2024, bringing in adult students with some college and no degree to complete their educational journey here at Kean. The first cohort had a successful experience in their first semester, with over 30 students returning to college at Kean and one graduate in May of 2024.
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Transformational Learning has partnered with Supera to offer the first Supera Spanish Language Program course fully online to begin expanding the impact of the program and serve new students. This new course modality launched in Fall 2023, with plans to add more courses to their online offerings.
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We are building the Certificate in Workforce Readiness to be offered to families of incoming Kean students and others in Entrepreneurial Education Initiatives (EEI) programs through the Generation2Generation grant.
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We have launched Territorium, a tool for students to track microcredentials and other learning experiences aligned to learning outcomes, skills, and job opportunities to serve as a verifiable record of learning beyond their transcript. We worked with Student Affairs on their Cougar Climb first year program as the first to use the platform, with more to come.
Hold Reform Status Update
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We successfully reduced registration restriction hold type by 67%, decreasing from 103 hold types to just 34. Many of the holds eliminated were financial in nature; a nearly unprecedented move. This significant reduction demonstrates our commitment to simplifying administrative processes and enhancing students' access to necessary courses. Notably, in Spring 2023, 53% of students with a financial balance over $1,500 persisted one year later, compared to only 39% in the baseline year before financial holds were eliminated.
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The disparity in average registration hold resolution time between Pell eligible and non-Pell eligible students was reduced by 79.64% from Fall 2022 to Spring 2024. Additionally, the average resolution time disparity by race and ethnicity decreased by 84.04% during the same period. These improvements highlight our ensuring all students receive timely support.
35% growth
From Fall 2022 to Fall 2024, we achieved a 35.56% growth in early course registration.
Teaching and Learning Status Update Information
As Moon Shot for Kean continues to drive reform that leads to student success, this spring the Teaching and Learning practice team came together to focus on how courses can be better designed to foster student belonging and success practices. The focus area for these efforts is centered on the reimagining of the General Education (GE) program at Kean, an effort that has been in development for 2 years and is now being fully piloted this Fall 2024.
Updates from the Team:
The 2024 - 2025 GE Fellows and Pilot Faculty initiative aims to support innovative teaching within a new GE curriculum by utilizing a learning communities approach. By working collaboratively with the GE Task Force, these two fellowships are designed to build a culture of innovative and collaborative teaching and learning in the General Education Program. Theme-based Learning Communities are central to this project, utilizing three themes relevant to our campus community, of interest to our first-year students, and aligned with the GE Program’s Student Learning Outcomes. The pilot will be offered to first-year students and include courses offered in our current General Education curriculum, both GE Foundation and GE Distribution courses.
Advising Update Information
During the 2023-24 academic year, the first recommendation from the report generated by the President's Task Force on Advising was implemented. For the first time, all incoming first year students met 1:1 with a professional advisor before registering for classes. As outlined in the report and associated recommendations, the Center for Advising, Persistence, and Success, or CAPS, led this effort. Specialized programs including Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF), Supera, Bridge to Success, and the Center for Veteran Student Success, advised their incoming students and supported CAPS' efforts as well. All staff providing professional advising received common training.
Next Steps from the Team:
The next step toward implementation of the Task Force's recommendations is to work with Academic Affairs to (1) clearly define the role and responsibilities for faculty advisors in light of the changes to professional advising and Kean's evolution to a research university, and (2) to create synergistic systems to provide coordinated advising from both faculty and professional advisors for a seamless student experience.