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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.
On May 7, 265 faculty, staff, educators, advisors, students, and campus partners from across the university gathered in person at the Business College Complex to explore how MSU advances student success through collaboration, intentional design, and evidence-based practice.
The 2026 theme, Collective Impact: Empowering Student Success Across One MSU, centered our shared commitment to supporting students through the Five Opportunity Areas of Student Success and highlighted the incredible contributions to this work happening across campus.
On Feb. 27, we came together for the inaugural Student Success Forum! With strong participation and enthusiastic conversations, the event showcased our community’s shared commitment to advancing student success at MSU. Thank you to everyone who contributed ideas, asked thoughtful questions, and helped shape the next phase of our work with the Five Opportunity Areas of Student Success.
The 2025 Student Success Launch took place on Monday Sept. 15 from 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. in the Kellogg Center. After opening remarks from President Guskiewicz and Vice Provost Largent, participants learned about the Student Success Ecosystem and how it supports every phase of the Spartan journey. The rest of the event was divided into two interactive sessions about developing future strategies such as the first-generation student success center, modernization of general education, university learning goals revision, transfer student success initiatives, course scheduling, our student digital strategy, retention grant project, and academic standing initiative.
During the Student Success Launch event, a Back-to-Campus Donation Drive was held for attendees to drop off donations, helping to provide students with essential supplies that support their personal and academic success. The MSU Food Bank and Basic Needs Program acts as a distribution hub to collect, sort, and deliver donations to satellite pantries around campus.
The 2025 Student Success Launch took place on Monday Sept. 15 from 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. in the Kellogg Center. After opening remarks from President Guskiewicz and Vice Provost Largent, participants learned about the Student Success Ecosystem and how it supports every phase of the Spartan journey. The rest of the event was divided into two interactive sessions about developing future strategies such as the first-generation student success center, modernization of general education, university learning goals revision, transfer student success initiatives, course scheduling, our student digital strategy, retention grant project, and academic standing initiative.
During the Student Success Launch event, a Back-to-Campus Donation Drive was held for attendees to drop off donations, helping to provide students with essential supplies that support their personal and academic success. The MSU Food Bank and Basic Needs Program acts as a distribution hub to collect, sort, and deliver donations to satellite pantries around campus.
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)
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:
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.
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.
Sign up to join the community! Attendance is welcome at any and all of the scheduled meetings.
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
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.
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:
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