1. Graduation Initiative 2025

2. Cal State Fullerton Goals
Graduation rates
2025
Prelim.
(as of fall 2017)
Current
(as of fall 2016)
2012
Freshman 6 Year
75%
66.6%
62.3%
51.1%
Freshman 4 Year
44%
22.5%
22%
14%
Transfer 2 Year
37.7%
36.4%
28.9%
Transfer 4 Year
85%
75.1%
74.4%
67.7%
Gap URM (% points)
6.6
11.5
Gap Pell grant recipient (% points)
TBD
6.8 5
We’re doubling our current four-year graduate rate and increasing two-year transfer student graduation rates to 44% by 2025.
We are already excelling and achieving our goals. Since 2012:
Nine percentage point gain and 65% improvement in four-year graduation rates.
We’ve cut our opportunity gap for first-time freshmen in half and eliminated it for transfer students.
Our six-year graduation rate has improved by 30%.

3. College-Level Goals 15.6% 20.8% 36% 4.7% 28% 31.2% 5% 22% 33.2% 43.1%
ARTS
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
COMM.
ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCE
HEALTH & HUMAN DEVT.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE
NATURAL SCIENCES & MATH
CSUF
Freshman
4-year
2016
15.6%
20.8%
36%
4.7%
28%
31.2% 5%
22%
2025
33.2%
43.1%
69%
10.5%
55.9%
61.3%
11.2%
44%
6-year
52.5%
67.4%
75.2%
49.8%
76.4%
61.6%
48.9%
62.3%
71%
80.7%
84%
68.8%
84.4%
77.5%
68%
75%
Transfer
2-year
7.6%
31.6%
49.5%
2.4%
50.8%
44.5%
6.9%
36.4%
12%
41.9%
56.3%
3.9%
57.1%
52.9%
10.9%
71.8%
82.6%
54.2%
80.4%
77.9%
54.1%
74.4%
79.3%
84.6%
88.3%
73.5%
87.7%
87%
73.4%
85%
Graduation rates have also been established for individual colleges and departments.
Programs with higher-than-average graduation rates were given smaller growth targets.
Programs with lower-than-average graduation rates, including high-unit majors in the arts and STEM fields, have more aggressive targets.

4. Seamless Experience Graduation Choosing a Major Retention
First Year Experience
Admission & Enrollment
Outreach & Recruitment
Our goal is to provide a seamless experience, from recruitment to career and life success.
Our First Year Experience program is key in giving students a sense of belonging and community.
Second-year focus is career advisement and helping students select a major.
Individual colleges take over in the third and fourth year to support students in completing their major.
The ultimate mission is career success, with students becoming contributing members of our diverse society.

5. Key Strategies First Year Experience Smart Advisement
Strategic Enrollment
Academic Preparation
High DFW Courses
High Impact Practices
Data-Driven Decisions
FYE focuses on sense of belonging, career preparation and multicultural competencies. Includes UNIV 100 courses, summer bridge programs, mentors, new student orientations and more.
Smart Advisement includes Student Success Teams in each college with retention, graduation and career specialists; mandatory advisement workshops; drive-through advisement and a new Student Success Dashboard.
Strategic Enrollment Management ties outreach, admissions and financial aid. A new Enrollment Management Dashboard drives decisions on adding course sections, classroom capacity and addressing bottlenecks.
Academic Preparation includes partnering with the Orange County Business Council, local K-12 schools and community colleges, and improving our Early Start Math and English programs to make sure all students are college-ready.
Each college is addressing high drop-fail-withdrawal courses. A new Bottleneck Dashboard supports class scheduling, course redesign, supplemental instruction and tutoring. TITANium now includes an “Early Warning System.”
Students who participate in High Impact Practices are more likely to graduate on time. Goal is to ensure 75% of students participate in at least two HIPs. Faculty are being trained, and HIPs will be designated in our course catalog and transcripts.
Office of Institutional Research and Analytical Studies and Information Technology department have deployed technological tools and dashboards for students, faculty, advisors and leadership to support data-driven decisions.

6. Collaboration Campus-Wide Student Success Every Division Participates
Early Start Math & English
UNIV 100
Student Success
Academic Affairs
Student Affairs
Information Technology
Admin. & Finance
University Advance.
Human Resources, Diversity & Inclusion
First Year Experience
Student Employment & Internships
Enrollment Management
High Impact Practices
Campus-Wide
Collaboration
Every Division Participates
Broad Leadership and Input
Shared Vision
Student Success Centers
New Student Orientations
Summer
Bridge
Health &
Wellness
Themed Housing
Faculty
Development
Completion
Grants
Innovation
Grants
At Cal State Fullerton every division is fully involved to ensure student success.
This chart shows just a few of the academic, social and advisement programs that are supporting retention and graduation.
Every Division Participates:
GI2025 involves Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Information Technology, Administration and Finance, University Advancement and Human Resources, Diversity and Inclusion.
Our goal is to break down silos and work across divisions to encourage innovation.
Broad Leadership and Input:
Efforts are guided by a cross-campus Advisory Group and working groups – each charged with eliminating a specific barrier to graduation.
Shared Vision:
The result is an intentional, well-articulated, comprehensive, campus-wide plan that is fully integrated and sustainable – and all of us can feel proud that we contributed to student success.
“Drive-Thru”
Advisement
Supplemental
Instruction
Philanthropic
Support
Tech Dashboards
Mandatory Advisement Workshops
Meal Assistance
Financial Aid
Diversity Initiatives Resource Centers
Textbook Rentals

7. Slide Title
Q & A

9. Changing Expectations About Time-to-Degree

10. Native Freshman: Percent Taking/Passing 30+ Units During First Year, Including Summer
Units Taken
Units Passed

11. Average 1st Semester Unit Load for Entering Students; Remedial, Non-Remedial, and Transfer Units

12. Average 1st Semester Unit Load for Entering Students; Remedial, Non-Remedial, and Transfer Units