Student Success Action Group
Purpose
The Student Success Action Group (SSAG) is a cross-functional team dedicated to advancing a coordinated, institution-wide approach to student success at Brandeis University.
Student success encompasses persistence, achievement, belonging, engagement, and completion. SSAG ensures that efforts across the institution are integrated, proactive, and informed by timely, meaningful data.
Focus
The focus of SSAG is undergraduate matriculated students at Brandeis University. Its work is rooted in strengthening the student experience and the communities of students pursuing a degree.
Deliverables
SSAG focuses on institutional student success objectives and sets long-term strategic goals along with targeted annual priorities to enhance undergraduate persistence, achievement, belonging, engagement, and completion. These long-term goals will align with The Brandeis Plan to Reinvent the Liberal Arts and be reviewed annually on a rolling basis.
Each year, SSAG will publish an Annual Student Success Priority Statement outlining 2-3 key focus areas and their intended outcomes, which will be shared with executive leadership and the campus community. The group will provide informal updates as needed and a formal annual summary reporting progress toward institutional goals.
The SSAG will regularly review relevant institutional data drawn from multiple sources to identify trends, barriers, and opportunities. This includes both frozen census data, which enables reflection on historical patterns, and live data, which supports predictive insights and early alert strategies to inform timely action. Based on this review, the group will release data-informed recommendations and, when suitable, support or coordinate targeted pilot projects.