2025 Student Success Summit

Text on graphic reads Student Success Summit 2024, May 7, 9am - 4pm, Business College Complex and May 8, 1pm to 4pm, virtual session via Zoom Join educators, staff, and students at the 2025 Student Success Summit, a culmination of all the student success work that was advanced at MSU throughout the academic year. This year’s Summit will explore how MSU’s faculty and staff continue to reform MSU using the Five Opportunity Areas of Student Success, celebrating impactful contributions across campus.

New for 2025, the Summit will take place over the course of two days: day one will be in-person, and day two will be virtual.

Learn a little more about what’s planned for this year’s Summit and secure your registrations below! Register by Monday, April 28! Full schedule and session details will be shared as the event approaches.

Please reach out to chair Maria O’Connell at jacomema@msu.edu should you have any questions or concerns related to the 2025 Summit.

May 7: In-person

Wednesday, May 7
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Business College Complex
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In partnership with the MSU Spring TALKS Conference, the opening morning of the Summit will feature Dr. Nick Sanders, professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Oakland University, as keynote speaker, in addition to recognition and broad highlights of MSU Student Success efforts this year. Please note, the Summit Planning Committee is working to highlight and encourage attendance at afternoon sessions offered by the MSU Spring TALKS Conference and the MSU AI Summit that align with student success efforts. These sessions will complement a set of afternoon workshops and sessions offered by the Student Success Summit specifically.

The tentative agenda includes:

8:15 - 9 a.m. - Breakfast and registration
9 - 9:15 a.m. - Welcome and event kickoff
9:15 a.m. - noon - Morning sessions (details to come)
Noon - 1 p.m. - Lunch (provided)
1 - 3:30 p.m. - Afternoon breakout sessions: applying the Five Areas in our work
3:30 - 4 p.m. - Closing

May 8: Virtual

Thursday, May 8
1 – 4 p.m.
Zoom
Register via Zoom

The virtual day of the Summit is ideal for attendees who work fully remote or will not be able to attend the in-person sessions on May 7.

The virtual sessions will provide opportunities to interact and engage with other virtual participants across the five opportunity areas of success. Recordings of the May 7 keynote session and some discussions will be available to virtual attendees the morning of May 8.

Student Success Launch and Summit

The fall Student Success Launch and spring Student Success Summit are opportunities for the campus community to come together and discuss student success with an eye toward where we want to go and what we want to accomplish.

The Student Success Launch is a chance to showcase the multiple places on campus where student success work happens and network with others who are doing similar work. The event regularly draws over 200 participants and is held at the start of every academic year in the fall.

The Student Success Summit is an opportunity for the faculty, advisors and staff to connect at the end of the academic year on topics to support their student success work over the summer and into the academic year.

2024

Student Success Summit: Transforming Student Success Together - May 8

The 2024 Student Success Summit was held on Wednesday, May 8 from 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. in the Minskoff Business Pavilion. Featuring opening remarks by President Guskiewicz, Interim Provost Jeitschko, and Vice Provost Mark Largent, with Dr. Kristen Renn as keynote speaker, this year's event focused on deep learning around the five opportunity areas of undergraduate student success, critical thinking around meeting 2030 goals, and a celebration of outstanding fellow Spartans.

For continued learning and those who were unable to attend, find materials from the day of the Summit linked below:

· Student Success Summit Presentation (PPT)

· Opening Remarks and Presidential Address (video)

· Dr. Renn’s Keynote Presentation (video)

· Student Interviews (video)

Student Success Launch: Mapping Student Success at MSU - Sept. 17

The 2024 Student Success Launch took place on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2024, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the MSUFCU Club in Spartan Stadium. This event invited campus partners to participate in workshopping and discussion around the projects, policies, processes and practices that can remove student barriers and support the five opportunity areas of the Spartan Undergraduate Experience Strategy:

Self-discovery of purpose
Educational success
Developing a sense of belonging
Contributing to an empowered community
Developing wellbeing

Materials from the day of the Launch

Spartan Undergraduate Experience Strategy Database

Please consider contributing to the Spartan Undergraduate Experience Strategy Database form. The purpose of this survey is to build a database of campus efforts that specifically align with and help us enact researched and documented MSU strategies for closing our opportunity gaps.

Five Areas of Success Learning Community 2024

Please consider joining members of a campus-wide community that will contribute to new discoveries and refine the institutional commitments and metrics for five opportunity areas of undergraduate success outlined in the Spartan Undergraduate Experience Strategy Guide. This guide supports our 2030 Strategic goals of increasing retention and graduation rates by closing opportunity gaps in undergraduate student success. This group will meet monthly in different formats (workshops, lunch and learns, design labs) depending on the topic and participant interest.

2023

Student Success Summit: Building Bridges and Cultivating Compassion – May 15

The 2023 Student Success Summit, Building Bridges and Cultivating Compassion, was held at the Business College Complex (BCC) on Monday, May 15, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Dr. Alexis Travis, Assistant Provost and Assistant Vice President of Health and Wellbeing, opened the summit. Dr Travis is a passionate leader with 10+ years of expertise in developing strategic collaborations, building coalitions, and creating innovative programs for vulnerable populations.

Dr. Travis was followed by Keynote Speaker, Dr. Soumya Palreddy, co-founder of the Palreddy-Lowe Learning Lab. Dr. Palreddy is an anti-bias/anti-racism educator in progress, a licensed psychologist, and trainer.

Breakout sessions were led by campus partners and highlighted an overview of strategies, activities, and ideas they have implemented and/or plan to implement in alignment with the summit theme.
Through collective wisdom and engagement between the presenters and attendees, the summit worked to build community, foster dialogue, and promote collaboration for the continued advancement of Student Success at MSU.

2023 Student Success Summit Planning Team

Kimberly Blair-Chambers
Chastity D. Gaither
Helena Gardner
Taylor Marino
Sadiq Mohammed
Jessica Oyoque-Barron
Kanchan Pavangadkar
Kristi Porrell
Jieron Robinson
Lance Sharp
Justin St. Charles
Kari Stone-Sewalish

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Student Success Launch: MSU Rising: Commitment, Community, Collaboration - Sept. 6

The 2023 Student Success Launch was held on Wednesday, Sept. 6, from 9 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. in the Kellogg Big Ten A&B room. This event centered around reaffirming commitments to student success, building community across campus student success work, and collaborating on moving key initiatives forward.

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2022

Student Success Launch – Sept. 27

The 2022 Student Success Launch was held Tuesday, Sept. 27, 1-4 p.m. in the MSU Union Ballroom and via Zoom.

The event highlighted the work that is going on across campus to close opportunity gaps while increasing student learning, persistence, and success.

Watch recordings from the Launch:

Learn more