Our Curriculum
Our equity-focused curriculum asks all participants to tackle and improve student success issues by understanding and embracing the diversity of today’s students, valuing their individual experiences and needs, and thinking through strategies that shift our institutions to being student-ready and student-focused - all efforts leading to closing equity gaps. Our curriculum is designed to provide the tools and environment necessary to critically examine issues that affect the success of historically underrepresented students by exposing participants to system and campus data, contextualized within national research studies on student success in higher education. The key components of our curriculum are: Active engagement with the Student Success Dashboard; participation in seven virtual sessions featuring innovative speakers and introducing concrete, replicable ideas on how to turn insight into action; and the requirement to embark on a Data Action Project. Dr. Hempel-Lamer and Dr. Alvarez facilitate the program, ensuring critical conversations within the learning community.
Program Structure
The Certificate Program in Student Success Analytics follows a carefully-crafted structure that focuses on equity and data-inspired decision-making and maximizes collaborative, solution-oriented engagement. Top leaders, administrators, faculty innovators, and forward-thinkers are invited to each of the sessions to share their expertise and practical, hands-on strategies that result in positive and effective change for historically marginalized students and aid in closing equity gaps.
We expect that teams view our webinars as a group and add a second hour of team time to discuss how the webinar content relates to their campus-specific data and applies to the student success landscape at their institution(s).
Our seven highly engaging virtual sessions are:
Session #1 - Student Success: A Story With Data
Session #2 - Who Gets to Graduate? Equity-Minded Data Literacy
session #3 - Becoming a Student-Ready Institution: Shifting the Paradigm
Session #4 - Transformative Assessment: Changing Culture by Measuring Impact
Session #5 - Navigating Transitions: The Journey Toward Timely Degree Completion
Session #6 - Overcoming Barriers: A Holistic Approach to Student Success
Session #7 - Celebrating the Learning Community: Turning Insights Into Action
Course Equity Portal Faculty Track - New participation option for CSU faculty
CSU instructional faculty, including all tenured/tenure-track faculty and lecturers interested in maximizing our program curriculum for classroom innovation are encouraged to consider our new Course Equity Portal (CEP) Track. As members of the CEP Track, faculty will experience our traditional program curriculum, and will also receive access to an additional data tool which will allow them to see their own data: the Course Equity Portal. Faculty will participate in this special track of the Analytics Certificate Program on teams with fellow faculty members, either from their own campus or across the CSU, and they will focus their efforts on equity-minded teaching and learning. Department Chairs are encouraged to recruit faculty teams to the CEP Track to advance equity and retention/graduation goals at the department level.
Student Success Dashboard
The CSU Student Success Dashboard, developed by the CSU Office of the Chancellor, is an easy-to-navigate, visually engaging set of data pages, and is the main source material for the Certificate Program in Student Success Analytics. The Dashboard, which has undergone extensive user testing and has innovative features, showcases data at the system and campus level. The data covers a wide range of information that intentionally spotlights equity gaps by subpopulation, including first generation, Pell-receiving status, ethnic/racial identification and gender, as well as by student entry point. This powerful tool allows cross-divisional teams to ask deep, critical questions about changes that can be made to transition their campus into being student-ready.
Past Presenters
José M. Aguilar-Hernández
Associate Professor, Ethnic & Women’s Studies
Associate Professor, Ethnic & Women’s Studies
Cal Poly Pomona
Lande Ajose
Managing Director and Chief of Staff
Managing Director and Chief of Staff
Waverly Street Foundation
Priscilla Bravo Arias
Assistant Professor, Microbiology
Assistant Professor, Microbiology
Long Beach City College
Reggie Blaylock
Presidential Associate, Community, Campus Partnerships and Student Experience
Presidential Associate, Community, Campus Partnerships and Student Experience
Cal Poly Pomona
Shannon Brady
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Wake Forest University
William Franklin
Vice President, Student Affairs
Vice President, Student Affairs
CSU Dominguez Hills
Bonnie Gasior
Professor, RGRLL
Professor, Romance, German, Russian Languages & Literatures
Cal State Long Beach
S. Terri Gomez
Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs
Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs
Cal Poly Pomona
Shonda Goward
Associate Vice President for Undergraduate Advising and Success
Associate Vice President for Undergraduate Advising and Success
San José State University
James Graham
Coordinator of Supplemental Instruction
Coordinator of Supplemental Instruction
Cal State San Bernardino
Frank Harris
Professor, Postsecondary Education
Professor of Postsecondary Education in the College of Education
San Diego State
Erin Jacobs
Director of Student Success Analytics
Associate Director for Student Success Analytics, Dept. of Institutional Research & Analytics
San Diego State University
Rashné Jehangir
Professor of Higher Education and Assistant Dean of Education Opportunity Program; Robert H. Beck Chair of Ideas
Professor of Higher Education and Assistant Dean of Education Opportunity Program; Robert H. Beck Chair of Ideas
University of Minnesota
Sukhwant Jhaj
Vice Provost for Academic Innovation & Student Achievement
Vice Provost for Academic Innovation & Student Achievement
Arizona State University
Michal Kurlaender
Chancellor’s Leadership Professor
Chancellor’s Leadership Professor
University of California, Davis
Beth Manke
Professor of Human Development & Long Beach Community Internship Program Director
Professor of Human Development & Long Beach Community Internship Program Director
Cal State Long Beach
Victor Rios
MacArthur Foundation Chair, Professor, Sociology
MacArthur Foundation Chair, Professor, Sociology
UC Santa Barbara
Michael Scott Robertson
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Long Beach City College
Matthew Smith
Associate Vice President of Student Life
Associate Vice President of Student Life
CSU Dominguez Hills
Elizabeth Zavala-Aceves
Associate Vice President, Student Affairs
Associate Vice President, Student Affairs
Cal State Fullerton
Guest Presenters
Reggie Blaylock
Interim Presidential Associate for Student Affairs
Interim Presidential Associate for Student Affairs Partnerships
Cal Poly Pomona
Shannon Brady
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Wake Forest University
José Luis Cruz
Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost
Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost
The City University of New York
William Franklin
Vice President, Student Affairs
Vice President, Student Affairs
CSU Dominguez Hills
Terri Gomez
Associate Provost for Student Success, Equity, and Innovation
Associate Provost for Student Success, Equity, and Innovation
Cal Poly Pomona
Shonda Goward
Associate Vice President for Undergraduate Advising and Success
Associate Vice President for Undergraduate Advising and Success
San José State University
Adrian Huerta
Assistant Professor of Education
Assistant Professor of Education
University of Southern California
Erin Jacobs
Director of Student Success Analytics
Director of Student Success Analytics
San Diego State University
Rashné Jehangir
Professor of Higher Education and Assistant Dean of Education Opportunity Program; Robert H. Beck Chair of Ideas
Professor of Higher Education and Assistant Dean of Education Opportunity Program; Robert H. Beck Chair of Ideas
University of Minnesota
Sukhwant Jhaj
Vice Provost for Academic Innovation & Student Achievement
Vice Provost
Arizona State University
Michal Kurlaender
Professor, Chair of the Graduate Group in Education, and Chancellor’s Fellow
Professor
University of California, Davis
Beth Manke
Professor of Human Development & Long Beach Community Internship Program Director
Professor of Human Development & Long Beach Community Internship Program Director
Cal State Long Beach
Victor Rios
MacArthur Foundation Chair, Professor, Sociology
MacArthur Foundation Chair, Professor, Sociology
UC Santa Barbara
Michael Scott Robertson
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Long Beach City College
Matthew Smith
Associate Vice President of Student Life
Associate Vice President of Student Life
CSU Dominguez Hills
Elizabeth Zavala-Aceves
Associate Vice President, Student Affairs
Associate Vice President
CSU Fullerton
The Data Action Project
Each campus team is guided through the development of a data action project in which they collaboratively develop college-, department-, or program-specific approaches aligned with their equity goals and strategic initiatives. We encourage projects that have the potential of reaching a significant number of students, with a particular focus on closing equity gaps for historically underserved students. Data Action Project plans are shared out during the closing session of the program. All participants commit to disseminating their data action project outcomes to their respective college, department, or program; the results will also be discussed, analyzed, and shared throughout the CSU system and beyond.
Click on the arrows below to scroll through a sample of past data action projects. For more information on transforming data into collective action, you may also want to check out our alumni stories. Learn More
Certificate of Completion/Digital Badge
Upon successful participation in the program, each program participant receives a Certificate of Completion/Digital Badge to acknowledge their commitment to achieving success for historically underrepresented students and closing equity gaps on their campus. In addition, team leads are recognized with a "Leadership" badge.
Interested in Learning More About Our Program?
Please consider joining one of our upcoming Info Sessions to learn more about the program and to meet the Analytics Certificate Program’s co-leads. For more specific questions, you can email us directly at AnalyticsCertificateProgram@calstate.edu