At Indiana University, our definition of student success transcends outcomes like retention and graduation rates. While useful, these measures don’t show the whole of a student’s experience or honor the different ways that success might look for each student.
To this end, we’ve developed an undergraduate framework that includes nine domains we know contribute to student thriving. Rooted in research, these domains are positively correlated to concrete student success outcomes.
Our goal for this framework is to ensure a consistent, high-quality experience for all students, irrespective of their campus or major. We strive for a balanced approach that maintains uniform standards of excellence across the university while allowing individual units to tailor experiences that resonate with their students’ identities, goals, and interests. This allows each campus, office, and school to leverage their strengths to support our students.
As we embrace this approach, our office is committing to comprehensively assessing each of these domains to effectively tailor our services and resources to bolster IU’s student success ecosystem. Our units and projects directly address these domains (e.g. basic needs, well-being, academic pathway), ensuring every student has access to the supports they need to be successful throughout their journey.
Indiana University
Office of the Vice President for Student Success
