The IUB 2030 student success initiatives are designed to ensure the long-term success of all students—undergraduates, graduates, professional, and online, as well as lifelong learners. We will reenvision the first-year experience, define academic and cocurricular milestones, and embed career-relevant experiences into degree programs. Graduate and professional students will benefit from excellence and innovation in academic training, professional and career development, and receive the comprehensive support they seek. All students will experience a supportive and empowering environment and will be prepared for life after graduation.

Increase student involvement and feelings of inclusion and belonging.

Status: A new working group has begun to work on creating a new model for student involvement/belonging at IU Bloomington.

Facilitators: Lamar Hylton, Vicka Bell-Robinson, academic deans

Improve academic and career advising and interventions along more fully defined career pathways.

Status: A working group focused on academic advising conducted a comprehensive assessment of advising at IUB and developed a plan to transform the current academic advising structure. Implementation of the new plan, which includes requiring academic advising of all undergraduate students each semester, began in fall 2024.

Facilitators: David Daleke, Vasti Torres, academic deans 

Expand resources for career development (includes curricular innovation, career-based support, and workforce opportunities).

Status: The IU Graduate School Bloomington continues to grow its one-to-one coaching program to enhance support for graduate students. It also completed an initial assessment of graduate student career services across campus. Consulting and coaching appointments are underway for the fall semester. 

Work continues across schools to identify any areas where more robust graduate and professional development services are needed and address them.

Facilitators: David Daleke, Vasti Torres, academic deans

Create innovative new academic programs that leverage the existing strengths of the campus and address student, community, and industry demand.

Status: The IU Bloomington Graduate School continues to focus on developing new degree programs, including new accelerated master's programs as part of AMP IU, in response to industry demand.

Facilitators: David Daleke, David Johnson, Vasti Torres, academic deans

Increase the use of evidence-based pedagogy and inclusive teaching practices.

Status: A webinar for faculty on strategies for teaching first-year students took place in August. Nearly 90 faculty attended and reported positive feedback.

Facilitators: Vasti Torres, academic deans

Ensure student-friendly campus policies.

Status: Work is underway with two units—the Office of Student Life and Undergraduate Education—to evaluate whether current policies serve student needs. 

Facilitators: David Daleke, Lamar Hylton, David Johnson, Vasti Torres

Ensure efficacy and integration of academic and co-curricular technology systems.

Status:  A partnership with Stellic —a comprehensive online student success platform—continues and various working groups are strategizing on how to leverage that partnership to integrate existing academic and technology systems.

Facilitators: David Daleke, Vasti Torres

Project Inspire: Optimize curricular learning spaces.

Status: Through Project Inspire, IUB dedicated up to $5 million per year to enhance campus learning spaces, including biology and chemistry teaching laboratories and related supported areas that serve over 2,400 undergraduate students each semester. Renovations are now underway in biology teaching labs.

Upgrades of more than 31,000 square feet of IUB instructional spaces were approved at the Board of Trustees meeting in June.

Facilitators: Aimee Heeter

Reimagine the undergraduate first-year experience (with the aim of increasing retention, lowering DFW in gateway classes, and getting students to better familiarize and adapt to IU's core academic goals/mission).

Status: Three sub-groups continue to meet on first-year experience initiatives.

The pilot first-year seminar is underway for fall 2024.

The transfer student transition experience sub-group has outlined four areas of focus for their work and has submitted a report with their proposed recommendations for consideration.

The first-year transition sub-group has submitted a report with their proposed recommendations for consideration.

Facilitators: Lamar Hylton, David Johnson, Vasti Torres, academic deans

Ensure an annual experiential learning opportunity for every undergraduate student.

Status: Paige Andersson, the new senior assistant vice provost for experiential learning, was recently hired within the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.

Facilitators: Vasti Torres, Lamar Hylton, academic deans