SSRL Director appears on Higher Education Podcasts
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).
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.
The Dennis Learning Center and the Center for Life Sciences Education team have published research that was supported by the Student Academic Success Research grant and a Research and Implementation grant from the Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning in CBE - Life Sciences Education online. This research paper examines cocurricular workshops for laboratory sections of an undergraduate biology course.
The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program, HCM Strategists, and Sova are leading the national Tackling Transfer partnership, supporting transfer policy, practice, research, and strategic communications. A recent publication, authored by Dr. Shanna S. Jaggars and Dr. Marcos D. Rivera from the OSAS Student Success Research Lab, outlines strategies institutions can use to engage their own faculty in an expanded or strengthened transfer mission.
The Office of Student Academic Success, in partnership with Digital Flagship and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, recently awarded $200,000 in Student Academic Success Research Grants Program funds to Ohio State researchers focused on student academic success. The funded projects focus on improving course success, retention or graduation, with an emphasis on historically underrepresented students and other underserved student groups.
OSAS Assistant Vice-Provost Shanna Jaggars, along with colleagues on the national Tackling Transfer Policy Advisory Board, is pleased to announce the release of the Board’s report, The Transfer Reset: Rethinking Equitable Policy for Today’s Learners. The Board includes leaders in education policy from four-year institutions, community colleges, and state departments of education, and their report sets forth state and federal policy recommendations designed to dismantle inequitable transfer systems and build a new approach to allow students to more easily achieve their educational goals.
In 2016, Ohio State was a founding member of the American Talent Initiative, a collaborative effort to enroll and graduate an additional 50,000 highly talented, limited-income students at top colleges and universities across the United States by 2025. Ohio State’s membership in the initiative has helped increase the graduation rates of the university’s Pell-eligible students by focusing attention and strategic planning around the success of this population, including the rollouts of the President’s Affordability Grant and Buckeye Opportunity Program. In 2021, President Kristina M. Johnson, who joined Ohio State in September 2020, recommitted to ATI’s goal of enrolling and graduating more low- and moderate-income students.
A new report by Ohio State researchers examines Ohio's statewide multi-institutional project to develop free course materials for popular college courses and provides key recommendations for Ohio policymakers and college leaders. The report, co-led by the Office of Student Academic Success and the University Libraries, focuses on the Ohio Open Ed Collaborative, a statewide initiative that recruited and supported inter-institutional teams of faculty to develop open and affordable college course materials.