Access to Success

Encouraging Updates on Student Access, Achievements, Retention and Satisfaction (November 2009)

Brief Introduction to ACCESS to Success

ACCESS to Success is our campus blueprint to enhance access to UWM while, at the same time, promoting greater student success. It’s a blueprint that combines the recommendations of the Enrollment Management Steering Committee with those of the Milwaukee Commitment. Together, the initial goals of ACCESS to Success are to:

• Build a pool of diverse, high-achieving applicants, admits, and enrolled students.


• Increase first-year retention and performance of all freshmen.


• Decrease the gap in first-year retention and performance between students of color and majority students.


• Decrease the gap in first-year retention and performance between students placing in remedial courses and those who don’t require remedial work.

For ACCESS to Success to be a success, the entire UWM community must embrace its goals and actions. A comprehensive blueprint that addresses enrollment management, achievement, retention, and diversity through a continuum starting with recruitment and culminating in graduation has been developed.

Matrix on ACCESS to Success/Milwaukee Commitment Initiatives: January 2007 Update on Activities

• Student Recruitment
• Admissions and Placement
• Retention
• Graduate Student Enrollment
• Faculty and Staff
• Assessment and Accountability

Assessment of ACCESS to Success Initiatives

• Access to Success Three Year Update: Campus Conference, January 2009
• Access to Success Presentation to Faculty Senate, February, 2008
• Access to Success Two Year Update: Campus Workshop, January 2008
• 2006 New Freshman Cohort and A2S after One Semester: Preliminary Data for May 18, 2007 Campus Conversation
• Access to Success: A Comprehensive First Year Program: One Year Review
• 2005 New Freshman Cohort and A2S after One Year (Presented at the Access to Success Retreat, JAN 2007)
• Enrollment Planning - Provost's Enrollment Management Committee (DEC 2006)
• Access to Success: A Presentation to the 19th International Conference on the First Year Experience in Toronto (JUL 2006)
• Board of Regents Presentation - Access to Success: Pathways to Regional Competitiveness (JUN 2006)
• 2005 New Freshman Cohort and A2S after One Semester (Presented at Access to Success Day, FEB 2006)

Read about ACCESS to Success

A series of UWM Report Articles and a copy of the presentations made on the Access to Success Day trace the history and success of A2S initiatives. (more)

FOR FACULTY AND STAFF:

Become a Mentor

The UWM Freshman Mentoring Network is a collaborative, university-wide program that introduces each participating new freshman to an existing UWM student, faculty, or staff member. (more)

UWM's Center for Instructional and Professional Development (CIPD) holds an annual retreat for faculty and academic staff who teach Freshman Seminar or other First Year Transition courses. (more)

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