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Title III – Strengthening Institutions Program (SIP) Grant <\/h1>\n\n\n\n

EWU\u2019s goal is to provide proactive, holistic, wrap around support services to every student based on individual need,  all with the ultimate goal of ensuring that students persist and graduate.<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n

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Program Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The program helps eligible Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) to become self-sufficient and expand their capacity to serve low-income students by providing funds to improve and strengthen the academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of eligible institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Types of Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Funds may be used for planning, faculty development, and establishing endowment funds. Administrative management, and the development and improvement of academic programs also are supported. Other projects include joint use of instructional facilities, construction and maintenance, and student service programs designed to improve academic success, including innovative, customized, instruction courses designed to help retain students and move the students rapidly into core courses and through program completion, which may include remedial education and English language instruction .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Retrieved from the US Department of Education<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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EWU’s Title III Project<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

EWU was awarded funding for a Title III Project in October 2020. The Project is housed with the Degree Completion Team as part of the Center for Academic Advising and Retention or CAAR. At EWU, the Project helps to shape the Student Success Collaborative<\/strong> (SSC) which will connect university student resources in order to identify barriers to student success and coordinate cross-campus support to help students navigate successfully past them. This is a deeply collaborative project including stakeholders from across the Eastern campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is this Collaborative? At Eastern, the Student Success Collaborative is made up of interconnected and mutually supportive networks of human talent and consistent and clear processes connected and supported by a robust platform of leading-edge technologies.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, the human talent network includes faculty advisors, professional advisors, and all professional staff from  across campus including but not limited to financial services, the career center, housing, tutoring and writing services, and physical and mental health services.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These units utilize consistent processes and proactive approaches and are in alignment with best practices in student  support and embody a \u201cstudent first\u201d approach.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technology is in the form of a multi-platform student success management system (SSMS), the staff- and student facing platform – Navigate. The synergy created by the technologically-boosted collaboration of the faculty and staff at EWU in the is the embodiment of the axiom that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

EWU\u2019s goal is to provide proactive, holistic, wrap around support services to every student based on individual need,  all with the ultimate goal of ensuring that students persist and graduate.<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SSC will bring together all divisions of the university to help students complete their degree in a timely manner and feel fully supported in every aspect of their experience at EWU. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Primary project components include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n