Student Success and Student Experience
Goal Statement (Draft): We will reshape our institutional practices to promote student success and close structural equity gaps through (1) a decolonial, people-centered an approach that prioritizes student well-being in multiple dimensions, (2) a supportive environment for students’ self-exploration towards self-understanding of their values, identities, cultural heritages, and career paths, and (3) equitable and culturally relevant/sustainable learning experiences and student engagement.
Desired Outcomes (Draft):
- With adequate funding, personnel, and resources, we aspire to increase our overall FTIC first to second-year retention rate from 66.7% to the pre-pandemic level of 70% and increase our 6-year graduation rate from 47.1% to 50% in five years, which approximates 0.5-1% increase each year.
- With targeted investment in resources and personnel to close racial equity gaps, we aspire to increase our first to second-year retention rate for as laid out in the table below.
Promote student retention and close structural equity gaps
| Sub-Populations | Baseline | Annual Percentage Point Goal |
| Overall | 67.1% | +1.00 |
| American Indian Alaskan Native | 44.2% | +3.00 |
| Asian | 73.7% | +1.50 |
| Black or African American | 55.3% | +1.50 |
| Hispanic / Latino | 61.0% | +1.50 |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 31.0% | +3.00 |
| First Generation | 61.6% | +1.50 |
| Pell | 62.8% | +1.50 |
Percentages represent the proportion of students identifying as each race/ethnicity that returned for their second academic year. Data are not mutually exclusive as students may identify as multiple races/ethnicities.
- Increasing graduation rates and close structural equity gaps
| Sub-Populations | Baseline | Annual Percentage Point Goal |
| Overall | 47.1% | +0.50 |
| American Indian Alaskan Native | 41.1% | +1.00 |
| Asian | 49.6% | +1.00 |
| Black or African American | 32.0% | +1.00 |
| Hispanic / Latino | 41.8% | +1.00 |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 42.9% | +1.00 |
| First Generation | 41.4% | +1.00 |
| Pell | 40.8% | +1.00 |
races/ethnicities.
- Transfer student graduation rates will improve from 70.8% to 75% by the end of the academic year 2029.
- With adequate funding, personnel and resources overall as well as targeted investment in historically marginalized student populations, we will develop a multi-dimensional, collaborative, and decolonial model of well-being in the practices of Student Affairs, Academic Affairs and other areas of the university (e.g. courses/curriculum, advising, housing, student leadership development, clubs and organizations etc.) and provide sufficient resources and personnel to implement it.
- With adequate funding, personnel and resources overall as well as targeted investment in historically marginalized student populations, we will create and implement a EWU student experience programming plan/academic and cocurricular curriculum from pre-college to graduation to support students’ self-exploration and self-understanding of their values, identities, cultural heritages and career paths.
- With adequate funding, personnel and resources overall as well as targeted investment in historically marginalized student populations, we will Increase student participation in applied learning opportunities (including practicum, internships, research projects, community engagement) in ways that include culturally relevant and financially sustainable options.
- With adequate funding, personnel, and resources overall and targeted investment in the Hispanic student population, we aspire to a growth rate of 2% to 2.5% across all student demographics over the next five years (roughly 0.5% per year), with a particular focus on increasing the Hispanic student population by 12% (roughly 2.0% per year).
- Grow new student enrollment
| Sub-Populations | Baseline | Annual Percentage Point Goal |
| Overall | 1,985 | +0.50 |
| American Indian Alaskan Native | 112 | +1.00 |
| Asian | 113 | +1.00 |
| Black or African American | 181 | +1.00 |
| Hispanic / Latino | 393 | +2.00 |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 32 | +1.00 |
| First Generation | 895 | +1.00 |
| Pell | 875 | +1.00 |
