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Strategic Plan
 

GOAL 2

Achieving our Vision through Student Success

We work together to create a proactive, seamless, student-ready learning environment that meets students where they are and prepares them to be the socially just leaders and change makers of tomorrow.

2.1 Support students equitably through a seamless student life-cycle experience, from first point of contact through graduation and beyond.  

2.2 Remove institutional barriers to student success and assure equitable opportunities and successful outcomes.

2.3 Leverage comprehensive data and predictive analytics models to align resources and programs that are tailored to support students where they are.  

2.4 Ensure that every student has the opportunity to participate in hands-on, engaged learning and high-impact, career-activating practices , including those based in and supportive of the community.

2.5 Connect with family ecosystems and support the intergenerational impact of higher education.

2.6 Create a coordinated and technologically integrated communication plan to meet students where they are .

2.7 Provide a comprehensive and proactive support system for students to meet their academic and lifelong goals.

2.8 Expand proactive, comprehensive and inclusive mental health support services and access to basic needs.

53%

of first-time students graduate within six years (2025).

71%

of transfer students earn their degree in four years (2025).

72%

of employed graduates indicate their postgraduate employment is in a field related to their career goals (2024-25).

78%

first-time undergraduate student one-year retention rate (2025).

86%

transfer undergraduate student one-year retention rate (2025).

Plan in Action

The following links are some examples of our strategic plan in action for Goal 2: Achieving our Vision through Student Success. While not intended to be a comprehensive inventory of all efforts advancing Goal 2, these examples are drawn from CSUSM’s NewsCenter features, stories and press advisories to illustrate this work in practice.

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