University Advising update:

March 2024

by Ebony Green, assistant dean for University Advising

Happy Spring! I cannot believe this academic year is coming to an end. Our students, faculty and staff have navigated another year of global change and community impact that would have stopped most, but we are Spartans! I’d like to share a few updates from University Advising and the Advising Initiative...

Read the full University Advising March 2024 update

Parsing the patterns in student success

Every once in a while, we find something in MSU’s data that leads us to a new initiative or instigates a major policy change. In 2017 we discovered interesting patterns related to the number of credits students enrolled in during their first semesters and overall student success. After significant analysis, we concluded that students who earned 30 or more credits in their first year at MSU persisted and graduated at higher rates than nearly identical students who “took it easy” their first year and completed less than 30 credits...

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