Student Success Technology

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Connecting, Finding Your Path, and Staying on Your Path

Starfish is our student success technology available to all students and staff for communications, appointment booking, accessing resources, and creating and monitoring academic plans.  

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Our primary goals are based on Guided Pathways.  The first goal is to connect students with “their people,” make it so that they only need to tell their story once and provide a primary communication hub.  The next goal is to help students explore different academic plans and work with their advisors to monitor their progress on the plans they choose. 

Starfish and Degree Planner are also directly connected to our Strategic Plan and these objectives: strategic planning graphic

  • Priority One:  Belonging
    • GOAL 1.1: Establish structures and practices that promote students’ development of social and academic belonging.
      • 1.1.1 Assess and revise pathways and program maps and degree plans! to ensure historically underserved students’ goals, values, and experiences are represented.
      • 1.1.2 Create and sustain opportunities for Native/Indigenous; African/Black; Hispanic/Latino; Undocumented; Pacific Islander; LGBTQ+ students to form student-based organizations to support each other and to access trained mentors. In Starfish, we will use roles, organizations, networks, and tracking items to connect students with their mentors, as well as providing a communication hub.
      • 1.1.3 Expand professional development opportunities for faculty that lead to historically underserved students’ participation in high impact practices regardless of a chosen program or pathway. We provide training and support for use of Starfish as a communication hub and help to leverage use of success-based features.
    • GOAL 1.2: Develops and nurtures an inclusive and equitable campus culture.
      • 1.2.2: Design spaces and services that provide outreach and welcome historically underrepresented students. Starfish has tools and technology resources to identify, connect with, and continuously interact with these students.      
      • Priority Two:  Student Ready
    • GOAL 2.1: Build an intentional and supportive environment for students that reinforces that every student is known, respected, and valued.
      • 2.1.1 Reexamine policies, practices, and processes to alleviate barriers to student engagement and success. As part of ongoing advising redesign and development of new support options, the Starfish team is an active part of this reexamination.
      • 2.1.2 Scale equity-minded support services that center the experiences of students disproportionately impacted by college delivery systems. Starfish at scale is a multifaceted resource in this work.
    • GOAL 2.2: Establish balanced modes of delivery to meet varying and diverse student needs.
      • 2.2.1: Implement an advising model that leads to student access, persistence, success, completion, and successful transfer and/or placement. Use of Starfish is embedded in this work, both in planning and in use.
      • 2.2.3: Expand and implement early intervention strategies to reduce the number of students who stop/drop out. Starfish provides an Early Alert mechanism, as well as other ways to identify and connect with these students.