Objectives

  • From the inception of the matriculation process, educate students and parents in an effort to provide them with a working knowledge of financial, academic, time and ethical requirements for college success.
  • Foster a more open academic community that supports students in their pursuit of knowledge.
  • Work across organizational boundaries to build a challenging, yet supportive, caring, cohesive and inclusive learning environment conducive to the cultivation of students engagement and committed service within the University and in the world beyond Northern Kentucky University.
  • Assist academic support units in the creation and sustaining of dynamic learning strategies to enhance academic success.
  • Create and maintain proactive support systems that facilitate the student’s management of their academic, social and personal life while in college.
  • Initiate and promote the development of innovative programs and services for students by the offices and departments that conduct student success programs and with other academic and administrative units within the University community.
  • Work with Admissions to support their efforts to recruit diverse students.
  • Collaborate with deans, department heads and faculty to recruit women and faculty of color. Develop and maintain innovative programs and services to recruit and retain students, faculty and staff of color.
  • Promote an environment to ensure that students are properly served within the University and that systems are readily available to manage student concerns and resolve grievances.
  • Promote the coordination of all University-wide administrative systems and ensure that information common to all units involved in the success of students is published and made available to the appropriate constituencies of the University.
  • Work with entities within the University to raise private funds to support programs and services for which State funds are not available.
  • Provide communications that feature “best recruitment and retention” practices and statistical information on our progress related to student, faculty, and staff recruitment and retention.