Across the past 18 years at Ohio State’s Newark campus, Jamie White has supported and promoted student success, first as an assistant and now as Associate Faculty member and Director of Retention and Student Success Initiatives in Newark’s Center for Student Success. Ms. White and her team not only provide proactive and holistic support to individual students, but also work to address larger systemic barriers to student success.
This year, Chila Thomas, Ed.D., Executive Director of the Young Scholars Program (YSP), is excited to celebrate the 35th anniversary of YSP as well as her fifth year as Executive Director.
Katie Stanutz, Ph.D., has been a student advocate and supporter throughout her five years at Ohio State, first as the Undergraduate Studies Program Manager in the Department of English, and now as the STEM Student Success Program Manager.
SSRL is launching an exciting series profiling Student Success Champions at Ohio State.
The Student Success Research Lab has published an article in the Journal of College Student Retention examining GPA drop for transfer and campus change students.
The Student Academic Success Research (SASR) Grants program is pleased to announce its 2023 round of grantees. This year, the SASR Grants program was expanded to include creative arts projects in recognition of the impact arts can have on student success.
In May and June 2023, Dr. Jaggars was featured on two episodes of the podcast Office Hours with Dr. DeVeau, based on her work with the national Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB).
Ohio State was selected to receive a $2.5 million Driving Change grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. SSRL led a self-study that formed the foundation of the HHMI-DC proposal.
The Student Academic Success Research (SASR) Grants Program is pleased to announce its 2022 round of grantees. Each SASR-funded research project has clear practical implications for the design, implementation, or scale-up of practices to improve Ohio State student success. This year’s set of projects are focused on strengthening science identify and self-efficacy for underrepresented students in STEM as well as assessing the use of ePortfolios as Ohio State implements its new General Education curriculum in 2022–2023.
Researchers at the Student Success Research Lab published a research brief and peer-reviewed research paper sharing the experiences of transfer students. The research brief shares insights on the challenges transfer students experienced amidst a global pandemic and offers practical implications for institutions. The peer-reviewed research paper describes the ways in which Transfer Student Capital (TSC), self-efficacy, and social support work in tandem to support the transfer student experience. This research was supported by a research grant from The Joyce Foundation.