{"id":787,"date":"2018-09-21T11:21:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T17:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=787"},"modified":"2019-01-10T11:25:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T17:25:40","slug":"ssc-student-success-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/ssc-student-success-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"SSC Student Success Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seminole State College\u2019s graduation rate has surpassed every community college in the state, save one, largely due to its recent Student Success Initiative.<!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Students8-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"SSC Students after Graduation\" class=\"wp-image-788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Students8-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Students8-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Students8-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Students8-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Students8-50x36.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Students8-788x563.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Students8-500x357.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Students8-1000x714.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Students8-800x571.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Students8-1320x943.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In each of the three years of the Student Success Initiative, SSC accomplished its goal of increasing graduation rates by three percent per year over the previous three-year average. At the outset of the initiative, SSC\u2019s graduation rate averaged 23 percent for the preceding three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to data reported by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, SSC\u2019s graduation rate rose to 27 percent in year one, 35 percent in year two and 39 percent in year three of the initiative. The IPEDS data shows the most recent first-time, full-time cohort reported was nearly double those of the cohort reported five years earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Retention rates have also increased from 54 percent to 63 percent during the initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> \u201cThe faculty and staff are committed to maintaining the upward trajectory of our graduation and retention rates. With that in mind, we are striving toward continuing increases to retention and graduation rates by three percent a year toward our five-year goal of reaching 70 percent retention and 50 percent graduation rates,\u201d <\/p><cite> <br>Dr. Tom Mills, SSC Vice President of Academic Affairs <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The college officially branded and kicked off the initiative in the fall of 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The overarching goal of the Student Success Initiative was to build a campus culture that honors the standard of access to higher education and academic excellence, while providing a campus-wide focus on student engagement, completion and achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> \u201cThis initiative was successful due to the passion for student success demonstrated by the faculty and staff of SSC. Our professionals truly care about students and put their passion into action\u00a0every single day.&#8221;<\/p><cite> <br>Dr. Tom Mills <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seminole State College\u2019s graduation rate has surpassed every community college in the state, save one, largely due to its recent Student Success Initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-academics","tag-september-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}