Student Success Progress

Primary Metrics

Key Initiatives

Focus on first-gen

Expanding on the success of the inaugural First-Generation Appreciation Week, MSU now offers First-Gen Fridays, a monthly discussion series designed to increase sense of belonging for first-generation students, faculty and staff. A new First-Gen Coordinating Council will make recommendations to enhance university polices and processes related to these students. In addition, the First-Generation Leadership and Innovation Vanderploeg Scholars program expanded its offerings to include a summer transition experience, peer mentor program and first-year seminar course.

Spartan One-Stop

The goal of Spartan One-Stop is to support student success by reducing the administrative barriers students face while navigating their enrollment, financial aid, and tuition and billing needs. When it opens on the first floor of the Hannah Administration Building, Spartan One-Stop will bring together staff with expertise in these areas from the Office of the Registrar and the Office of Financial Aid and Student Accounts. These centrally located resources will be able to resolve most enrollment or billing account inquiries that arise for students and families.

Care and Intervention Team

Consisting of university personnel from a variety of units with expertise in student affairs, mental and physical health, student conduct, human resources and law enforcement and campus safety, the Care and Intervention Team helps ensure a safe, supportive physical and emotional environment at the university. The recently established team uses a collaborative and proactive approach to identify, assess, intervene in and prevent threats to the safety and well-being of the MSU community. The process of coordinating responses and, most important, intervention aims to produce timely and effective ways to support the community.

Financial aid for in-state students

The Spartan Tuition Advantage program is expanding college access and affordability for Michigan residents. Beginning with the fall 2024 incoming class, it promises to aid qualifying in-state students, covering full tuition through a combination of federal, state and institutional gift aid for up to eight semesters. Qualifying students are Pell-eligible with household incomes of $65,000 or less.

Exceptional undergraduate experiences

MSU prioritizes and invests in enhancing the full student experience, including significant experiential and cocurricular learning opportunities that elevate students’ success during their studies and after graduation. Peer institutions have taken note: In an annual reputation-based U.S. News & World Report ranking, MSU consistently ranks as one of the top public institutions in the nation for service learning, education abroad and learning communities.

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