Quality Initiative / Student Success Academy
As part of the Higher Learning Commission’s required Quality Initiative, NNMC is participating in the Student Success Academy.
The Academy is a structured, mentor-facilitated multi-year program aimed at evaluating and improving institutional factors that affect student success.
The Student Success Academy is built around the investigation of four key factors to help institutions identify their current realities and discover areas of opportunity for improving student success:
- Data: Who are NNMC’s students? And, what do we know about them?
- Initiatives: What are we doing to support student success?
- Infrastructure: How do our processes, policies, and procedures affect student success?
- Engagement: Who is engaged in student success efforts? How is student success promoted and recognized?
Year 1 Environmental Scan
Data Inventory
This step includes an inventory of available data on the institution’s student populations
and an assessment of its capacity for managing those data, together with a survey
on perceptions at the institution of what student success means.
Find more information:
- Recent Data Inventory
- Faculty/Staff Perceptions on Student Success
- Data Inventory Report to HLC
- Other data may be available upon request.
Initiatives Inventory
This step requires an examination of current initiatives at the institution that are
designed to support student success, the resources they require, and their documented
impact (if available).
Find more information:
- Initiatives Inventory report to HLC
- Dropped Student Analysis
- Other data may be available upon request.
Infrastructure Inventory
This step requires an examination of infrastructure and inhibitors at the institution
that are designed to support or unintentionally hinder student success (if available).
Find more information:
Infrastructure Inventory Update to the HLC
High DFW Courses Project
- Other data may be available upon request
Year 2 Analysis & Planning
Engagement Inventory
The team conducts an inventory of personnel engaged in student success efforts, means
of promoting and recognizing student success at the institution, and resources allocated
to supporting engagement.
A total of 9 focus groups were held with staff, faculty, students, and administration. A brief summary of those results was provided Spring 2023. Find more information at: Spring 2023 Convocation Focus Group Presentation
A summary of the Student Success Academy next steps to create a plan was provided during the Fall 2023 Convocation. Find more information at: Fall 2023 Convocation Update
Student Success Plan
The team created a draft plan to address gaps in the institution’s data, initiatives, infrastructure and engagement that will guide the institution in systematically improving student success.