Student-Ready Impact
Student-Ready Impact
Measurable Change
Over the last seven years, we’ve designed our work to help support institutions and partners as they move from big ideas to bold action and measurable change. To do this, we’ve defined four areas of SRS impact. These four areas represent how we approach institutional transformation and drive meaningful change for institutions, systems, and states across the country.
4 areas of SRS impact
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Building institutional capacity to enact student-ready change
We work alongside institutional teams to build the capacity needed to identify barriers to student success and implement structural solutions. Building from the foundation of our Capacity Framework and Theory of Change, we support institutions with custom combinations of hands-on workshops, coaching, analysis, deliverable creation, and our first-of-its-kind virtual technical assistance platform called Constellation. SRS takes on much of the planning, coordination, and follow-through required to turn insight into action. Institutions that work with SRS shift their mindset, build their capacity, and implement proven student success strategies – all while managing their normal to-do lists.
- XX institutions directly engaged in our work, impacting XX undergraduate students each year
- XX success strategies enacted
- XX higher educational professionals who attended an SRS workshop
- XX higher education professionals using Constellation
- XX higher education professionals receiving coaching
- XX tools, resources, and deliverables created
- Quotes about how we remove the burden/make it possible to actually move work forward (Meredith from WESD could be a good source because when she introduced me to her board, she mentioned how valuable SRS was during the BAB project in doing the work)
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Reforming the policies that shape student success
From admissions to graduation requirements, institutional policies shape students’ experiences in higher education, but are often an overlooked lever for improving student outcomes. We work with institutions to examine their policy environments, identify specific policies that create barriers, and make the policy changes necessary to better support student success, rooted in our SRS Institutional Policy Framework. Higher education professionals build their knowledge, develop policy skills, and utilize SRS-created resources to advance policy reform on campus.
- XX institutions advancing policy reforms
- XX+ policies reviewed, redesigned, or implemented
- XX policy workshops conducted
- Quotes from our policy workshop evaluations
- SJSU quote?
- Commonwealth quote?
- Check out our full suite of policy-related support
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Transforming isolated innovation into scaled impact
There is no shortage of innovative best practices in higher education, but too often they remain limited to individual programs, departments, or institutions. We help states, systems, and intermediary organizations create scaled change through policy, strategic planning, and implementation support for cohorts of institutions. We also directly contribute to the evidence base and thought leadership necessary to fuel future innovation and keep the field moving forward in support of a more student-ready system of higher education.
- XX states or systems supported, impacting up to XX institutions and XX students
- XX institutions engaged in multi-institution initiatives
- XX new state or system policies or programs created
- Example: WV Open Learning
- XX research-informed recommendations made to states, systems, and intermediaries
- Example: Oregon Transfer Report?
- XX studies and XX blogs published to mobilize new research and perspective
- Example: MLE Report, Institutional Policy Report
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Centering student voices in postsecondary decision-making
Institutional decisions are most effective when they reflect how students actually experience institutional structures and supports. Too often, that perspective is missing from the discourse as institutions establish their priorities and measure their success. We’ve intentionally incorporated student voice into the projects we support, ensuring that lived experiences inform institutional efforts to be student-ready. This leads to decisions that are not only more responsive but more likely to improve outcomes.
- XX students directly engaged in SRS-supported projects
- Quote from AASCU evals from student attendees
- XX of projects incorporating student perspectives into design and decision-making
- Examples of student-informed changes to policy or practice
- Case study: BAB
- Abbey’s blog with student
- Photos of students from the events