Finding ways to improve student success is a hot topic these days. A quick internet search reveals more than 500,000 books, articles, reports, programs, and third-party products discussing how colleges and universities can improve student success at their institutions. Most of these discussions take the form of actions individual institutions can take, examples of best practices that have worked at other institutions, or studies of how far our country still needs to go to improve equitable student success.
The AGB Council for Student Success is a unique cross-functional advisory group of college and university board members, chief executives, select administrators and faculty from a diverse array of AGB member institutions, systems and foundations. Its members share a commitment to advancing student success: the overall objective that students entrusting the higher education sector with their educational goals and aspirations experience campuses that are ready and able to assist them in achieving their goals. These leaders will help shape the strategic thinking, priorities, and action of boards and their members to elevate student success outcomes.
Council Ambassador
Lisa Foss
AGB Senior Consultant
Members
Tracey Berkowitz
University of Miami
Paige Borden
University of Central Florida
Kelly Cameron
Bunker Hill Community College
Alex Cirillo
Minnesota State System
Catalina Garcia
Dallas Community College District
Sara Goldrick-Rab
Independent scholar
Catharine Bond Hill
Yale University
Paul Hollingsworth
Hollins University
Danette Howard
Howard University
Cynthia Jackson-Hammond
CHEA
Steven Kelts
Princeton University
Kirk Kolenbrander
Wheaton College Massachusetts
Kevin Kruger
NASPA
Jill Louters
North Dakota University System
Miriam Pride
Berea College
Timothy Renick
Georgia State University
Winslow Sargeant
Northeastern University
David Scobey
Elon University
Molly Seals
Youngstown State University
Rupesh K. Srivastava
Ferris State University
Baishakhi Taylor
New York University
Donna Vuchinich
Simon Fraser University
Andrá Ward
Northern Kentucky University
Michael Wiafe
University of California, Berkeley
Browse Council Insight Blogs
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The connection between a student’s ability to pay for college and successfully earn a degree is well established. Federal and state grant and loan programs and institutional need-based scholarships have been the central strategy to provide access, regardless of family income, to our country’s colleges and universities for many decades.