Board Responsibility for Equitable Student Success
Board Roles and Responsibilities
Ensuring the quality of education provided by the institution
- Boards must monitor and evaluate how effectively their institutions apply resources to support learning and student success.
- Boards must assure that curriculum and instructional programs are equity centered and culturally responsive.
Action Items
- Solicit data on student graduation outcomes, retention, time to degree, what happens after graduation, mobility, services students use on campus, climate, sense of belonging, and GPA.
Metrics and Assessment Tactics
- Audits
- Accreditation
- Rankings from US News and World Report, Princeton Review, and other sources
- Data by key demographic factors on measures of student success—how equitable is it?
- National and international subject matter tests
- Surveys
- Interviews
- Institutional data
- Disaggregated student satisfaction and employment in field surveys that demonstrate continued outcome equity
Questions to Pose
- What do we mean by quality of education? Quality for whom and for what?
- Which groups do not seem to be having quality-rich experiences on our campus?
- What does success look like for graduates?
- How does the board advocate for the institution and interact with political leaders and funding bodies?
What does success look like?
An Institutional Example:
Xavier University of Louisiana
Ranked #4 in social mobility and top preparer of students for successful medical school applications
