In the College of Arts and Sciences, we believe in a “Culture of Care.” We care for our students, and we care for the faculty and staff who support students. Through our dedication to students, we form a strong community. We are the COAS Student Success Network, and we operate from a shared vision of holistic support of each other and of our students.
Faculty-Led Innovation Projects
Through the COAS Innovation Grant process, three faculty leaders were selected to develop and implement projects that advance the COAS student success mission and vision. The three projects focus on important aspects of our First-Year Focus work.
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Julia Broderick
Julia is designing “Healthy Attachments for Student Success (HASS)” materials and community for faculty who teach first-year courses. A key goal of HASS is to help instructors develop strategies that can reduce the risk of burnout.
Want to learn more about Julia’s work? juliabroderick@boisestate.eduÂ
Julia is designing “Healthy Attachments for Student Success (HASS)” materials and community for faculty who teach first-year courses. A key goal of HASS is to help instructors develop strategies that can reduce the risk of burnout.
Want to learn more about Julia’s work? juliabroderick@boisestate.eduÂ
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Sarah Dalrymple
Sarah has created processes for identifying courses with high DFW rates and performance gaps. She runs Faculty Learning Communities and works directly with COAS departments to gather and analyze course-level data and explore high impact practices that have been found to positively impact student retention.
Want to learn more about Sarah’s work? sarahdalrymple@boisestate.eduÂ
Sarah has created processes for identifying courses with high DFW rates and performance gaps. She runs Faculty Learning Communities and works directly with COAS departments to gather and analyze course-level data and explore high impact practices that have been found to positively impact student retention.
Want to learn more about Sarah’s work? sarahdalrymple@boisestate.eduÂ
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Gail Shuck
Gail is working with the First-Year Writing program to develop and pilot a new first-year writing directed self-placement process that will provide better support to our multilingual students. Through this process she is also helping to build a sustainable data management system for tracking multilingual student success.
Want to learn more about Gail’s work? gshuck@boisestate.eduÂ
Gail is working with the First-Year Writing program to develop and pilot a new first-year writing directed self-placement process that will provide better support to our multilingual students. Through this process she is also helping to build a sustainable data management system for tracking multilingual student success.
Want to learn more about Gail’s work? gshuck@boisestate.eduÂ
Strategic Retention Initiative (SRI)
With our student success goals and infrastructure in place, we are ready to extend and support the work at the department level through our Strategic Retention Initiative (SRI) program.
COAS SRI grants provide college-level funding and training, delivered over a 2-year period, in order to develop targeted retention strategies within departments.
COAS Strategic Enrollment and Retention Plan (SERP)
COAS SERP Mission
Reduce gaps in access, retention and completion through targeted student support.
COAS SERP Vision
Build a Student Success Network in the College of Arts and Sciences, where COAS units are aligned towards shared goals
Storyboard
In COAS Student Success, we believe that students experience their education with a stronger sense of purpose and ownership if they are actively building their story throughout their time at Boise State.
The Storyboard initiative brought together a community of leaders to develop reflection and storytelling projects across campus. Learn more about the important work we did and the commitments we maintain.