T URNING D ATA INTO A CTION : S TRATEGY P ROFILE
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ESCRIPTION OF THE
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TRATEGY
This strategy will:
■ Target Metric:________________________
What specific initiatives are included in this strategy (choose up to three)?
Which students will be served by the initiative?
S CALE AND E FFICACY
■ What is the scale of change – how many will be targeted by the strategy by Spring 2015?
■ What is the anticipated efficacy of the strategy – for every student targeted by the strategy, what percent will contribute to your target metric?
■ What is the resulting estimated impact and when will it occur?
How will we know that this initiative is successful in 2015?
Which institutional factors does the initiative address?
M ILESTONES AND R ISKS
■ Milestones: When will the strategy begin and when will it end, or become “business as usual?” What major actions and activities will need to take place for this strategy to be successful?
■ Risks: What are the potential risks associated with this objective?
How will you mitigate them?
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L EADING INDICATORS / FEEDBACK LOOPS
Important leading indicator/feedback loop
Example: Biology 101 DFW rate for underprepared students
How will we know if we need to take action?
If the DFW rate for underprepared students in any section during any semester falls below 15%
What action will we take?
Work with the professor to understand how we can better support those students
How frequently are these data available?
Three times per semester
What do we need to do to make these available to us?
Ask the Biology department to include us in their enrollment updates
D ETERMINING W HO AND H OW
■ Who from our team will lead this work?
■ Who else needs to be involved? What is their role?
■ When and how often will we meet to review the progress of this strategy to improve our key outcome (new meetings, existing meetings we leverage)?
■ What are our next steps? Who will do these things?