CSU Consortium on Artificial Intelligence Chatbots for Student Success and Engagement

Recent research has proven that artificial intelligence helps mitigate summer melt at a large state university with a high proportion of traditionally underserved and first generation students (cite). Current research (at the lead campus in this proposal, funded by the Kresge Foundation) is further examining whether A.I. helps with additional student success outcomes, including retention, engagement, GPA, and...

Scaling Student Support with Conversational Artificial Intelligence

Of the students who enroll in higher education, 48 percent will not earn a degree within six years (Kena et al, 2015). College enrollees who fail to complete disproportionately come from underserved communities that may lack the resources to help students navigate challenging financial, academic, and social situations. The impacts of leakage from the college-going pipeline reverberate across multiple aspects of society. For examp...

Los Angeles Reverse Transfer Pilot

California systems of higher education have placed emphasis on degree completion and the importance of streamlined transfer pathways. While the state has placed a great emphasis on students completing an associate degree prior to transfer, many students do not. When these students stop out at the university level, they enter the workforce with no degree, which dramatically impacts ability to attain gainful employment as well as median incomes. Through a reg...

Committing to Equity and Inclusive Excellence: Campus-Based Strategies for Student Success

In this project, CSUN will use the resources available from the Association of American Colleges and Universities to support our student success initiatives, particularly those aimed at closing gaps in outcomes between students from traditionally underserved backgrounds and those from better served backgrounds. AACU funding will be used to implement the Inclusive Innovations Series, which is a program deve...

Accelerating Academic Success through the Pedagogy of Confidence

In this project CSUN intends to partner with the National Urban Alliance (NUA) to encourage and challenge the talents of underperforming student populations with an engaging, tailored education. The intention is to infuse the NUA?s Pedagogy of Confidence model into the first- and second-year experiences of incoming students athletes. The Pedagogy of Confidence is a mentoring model in which all students are provided with the tools an...