The Action Network for Equitable Wellbeing (ANEW) Action Lab is a cohort-based opportunity for institutions to identify and address gaps in wellbeing and flourishing among historically marginalized student groups. Alvin Community College is the first community college to participate in this exciting work facilitated by New York University, which is focused on addressing inequities to improve student retention and success.

The Action Lab focuses on laying the founding by equipping colleges and universities with tools to:
• Build an understanding of the norms, processes, and structures that perpetuate inequities in wellbeing for a specific group of students
• Establish and/or deepen collaboration across campus and with students with lived experience
• Develop an initial theory of change
• Pilot 1-3 specific concrete actions and generate learnings to inform scale and spread
• Develop capacity to use data and assessment to inspire and drive improvement
• Create a path forward to continue the work upon the conclusion of the Action Lab

DELIVERY FORMAT: The program is in-person only.

PROGRAM SCALE: Small-scale (reaches fewer than 10 percent of its target population)]

DEPARTMENT(S) OVERSEEING PROGRAM: Pathways Advising

CONTACT FOR MORE INFO: Holly Williams at hwilliams@alvincollege.edu

The multi-lesson "Best Class/Worst Class" project provides a way for students and professor to set expectations for course performance collaboratively, while simultaneously modeling productive online interaction strategies. Students become more aware of their own learning process and the processes of those with whom they will be working, creating necessary bridges to successful collaboration. In addition, students are able to develop practical skills in navigating the online environment before being tasked with heavily-weighted course components.This project is designed to be implemented alongside discipline-specific course content. 

This guide explores the value of student workers in higher education institutions and provides strategies for effectively managing and integrating them into departments. It emphasizes the importance of onboarding, fostering an inclusive environment, professional development, open communication, focused skill development, strategic offboarding, and talent retention. By implementing these strategies, departments can enhance their performance, diversity, and alignment with institutional goals while providing valuable opportunities for student workers' growth and development.

Click on 'View Resource' and then download the attached file for step-by-step instructions for submitting your program to the Texas Student Success Program Inventory.

Click on 'View Resource' and then download the guide to find step by step instructions on how to add a new program to the Student Success Program Inventory. If you have any questions or concerns please reach out to sspi@highered.texas.gov. 

Click on 'View Resource' and then download the attached file for step-by-step instructions for updating your program in the Texas Student Success Program Inventory.

The Midland College Honors Program provides an enhanced creative and supportive learning environment and special recognition for talented students.

Currently the Honors Program has over 100 students, each of whom are working under the guidance of MC faculty toward project completion.

Delivery Format: The program is in-person only.

Program Scale: Medium-Scale (reaches between 10 and 25 percent of its target population)

Department(s) Overseeing Program: Honors Program

Contact for More Info: Terri Gilmour, Ph.D. at tgilmour@midland.edu, (432) 685-6816

The aims of this project are to implement a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system that will provide the School of Health Professions (SHP) at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center with the capacity to reach underserved populations statewide. Currently, the school relies on a “boots on the ground” approach with one recruiter and limited technology. Advising for underserved students is currently too lightly resourced on both the sides of the enrollment funnel, which is an obstacle that the technical solution of a CRM can help to overcome. Streamlining efficient communications and recruiting processes will enhance the school’s ability to reach underserved populations and help to prepare these students for entry into high-demand and high-paying jobs in the health care industry. The CRM implementation will be heavily focused on establishing communications and recruitment strategies that enable the student success division of the SHP to target recruiting to Early College High School (ECHS) campuses in Houston and Greater Houston and establishing seamless articulations with community colleges across Houston and Greater Houston to include Harris, Fort Bend, Brazoria counties.

PROGRAM SCALE: Medium-scale (reaches between 10 and 25 percent of its target population)

DEPARTMENT(S) OVERSEEING PROGRAM: School of Health Professions

CONTACT FOR MORE INFO: Kimberly Hoggatt Krumwiede, PhD, at kahoggatt@mdanderson.org or (713) 745-8168

OER Fellows are invited to remix this OER Storytelling Template to share their stories of impact with Open Educational Resources (OER).

OER Fellows are invited to remix this OER Storytelling Template to share their stories of impact with Open Educational Resources (OER).

OVERVIEW: [Use this space to provide a short summary of the program, noting what the program is and who it is intended to serve. We recommend that the summary does not exceed 150 words, and please keep in mind that student success professionals at Texas institutions are the primary audience for this information.]

DELIVERY FORMAT: [Choose one from the following options:
The program is in-person only.
The program is online only.
The program has a hybrid format or has both online and in-person components.]

PROGRAM SCALE: [Choose one from the following options:
Large-scale (reaches more than 25 percent of its intended target population)
Medium-scale (reaches between 10 and 25 percent of its target population)
Small-scale (reaches fewer than 10 percent of its target population)]

PROGRAM OUTCOMES: Please share 2-3 sentences describing evidence of the program’s outcomes and effectiveness, if possible. If you do not have anything to share in this field, you may delete it from the template.

DEPARTMENT(S) OVERSEEING PROGRAM:

CONTACT FOR MORE INFO: [Name] at [Email Address] or [Phone Number]

A compilation of frequently asked questions about the Texas Student Success Program Inventory.

The following list provides hyperlinks and short descriptions for each of the keyword tags affiliated with programs in the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's Student Success Program Inventory (SSPI). You can use the keywords in two ways: Click on the hyperlinked term to take you to a list of programs that are affiliated with that specific keyword tag. This list may be a collection that is featured on the homepage of the inventory.When searching for programs using the search feature, you can include these keywords in the language you enter in the search bar to help narrow your results.

To help our partners share the TX SSPI website with their networks, we’ve put together the following sample social media posts that can be used directly or adapted for Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. We encourage you to also use the included graphics with your posts. Your promotion of the inventory, report, and webinar will be incredibly valuable in reaching our desired audience of student success professionals located in Texas. We will start sharing from the Ithaka S+R channels on March 9, 2023, and welcome you to start posting from your own accounts after that date.