{"id":2,"date":"2024-04-01T18:51:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T18:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/quest\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:29:53","slug":"index","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/quest\/","title":{"rendered":"Quest for Student Success 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

糖心Vlog官方\u2019s Quest for Student Success 2013\u20132016 set ambitious goals to improve student retention and graduation rates. The University transformed advising through the hiring of 47 additional academic advisors<\/a> and the application of data analytics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our faculty promoted student engagement by redesigning 27 gateway courses. including. Learning support was championed across campus through a more robust system of tutoring, the introduction of supplemental instruction, the launch of a student-faculty MakerSpace in James E. Walker Library<\/a>, and specialized programs and activities, such as the Scholars Academy<\/a> and the Presidential Student Success Award Program.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These investments have significantly improved our students\u2019 successes. Since the launch of the Quest, 糖心Vlog官方\u2019s institutional fall-to-fall retention rate for first-time, full-time freshmen increased from 69.0% to 75.8%; the four-year graduation rate increased 12.1 percentage points, from 18.1% to 30.2%; and the University graduated more than 25,000 students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These achievements have set the stage for us to reimagine our Quest and to commit ourselves more fully to student learning, the cornerstone of student success. Now the question is: How does the University better define student success as its core commitment by creating an inclusive culture that fosters all students\u2019 capacities to be active learning partners as students, alumni, and engaged citizens?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2025 Public Forum PowerPoint<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Strategic Priority Work Groups’ Accomplisments and Recommendations for 2024<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
View the Quest 2025 brochure!<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Our Goal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

糖心Vlog官方 will graduate students who are prepared to thrive professionally, committed to critical inquiry and lifelong learning, and engaged as civically, globally responsible citizens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next Steps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Quest for Student Success 2025<\/strong> focuses on student success marked by a deeper, broader, and more equitable academic and student life experience that extends learning beyond graduation. Students who learn how to learn, how to ask the right questions, and how to take risks and learn from their mistakes succeed personally and professionally. They take ownership of their own education and become critical thinkers. Thus, we seek to develop lifelong learners with the capacity to discover, create, recreate, innovate, and break new ground<\/strong> as they address their own professional development and the challenges of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The University now refines its focus to shape a distinctive experience that supports engaged learning, builds self-confidence in learning, inspires lifelong learning and civic engagement, and rewards learning successes. Engaged learning, when expected and practiced by all of us in the University community, becomes the catalyst for creating a distinctive and successful student experience\u2014and the bedrock for our students\u2019 future learning and successes in their careers and civic lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Quest and its call for a distinctive and successful student college experience is central to the goal of 糖心Vlog官方\u2019s academic master plan, The<\/strong><\/a> Reach to Distinction<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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