Goal 1: Engage and Educate
Attract unique and exceptional students, faculty and staff to actively engage in a teaching, learning and research environment supporting their interests as creators, innovators, change agents and champions of the social good in a diverse and changing world.
If you have any questions, please contact the Goal 1 leads, Vincent Del Casino and Mari Fuentes-Martin.
Showcasing Our Progress
Spotlight Stories
Student Growth
Increase enrollment, retention and graduation of undergraduate and graduate students in alignment with CSU success initiatives and campus goals.
Metrics
- Strong enrollment rates tracked for graduate and undergraduate students by year (as a total of state and self-support enrollment).
- Improvement in retention rates of undergraduate and graduate students by year, demonstrating continuous improvement over time (state-supported students only).
- Improvement in graduation rates of undergraduate and graduate students by year, demonstrating continuous improvement over time (state supported students only).
Campus Life
Engage our students to thrive in campus life activities.
Metrics
- Increase in undergraduate and graduate students participation in student clubs and organizations, demonstrating continuous improvement over time.
- Growth in student participation in experiential learning, internships and work-based learning opportunities, indicating sustained improvement over time.
- Growth in student participation in SJSU-sponsored career fairs and employer engagement events, indicating sustained improvement over time.
- Increase in graduates securing a career-aligned outcome (employment, graduate school, military or service) within 6 months of graduation.
Student Well-being
Develop students’ sense of self-understanding and learned skills to monitor and manage their well-being and personal health.
Metrics
- Exceed peer institutions on measure of "collaborating with others in mastering difficult material and interacting with peers from different backgrounds prepares students to deal with complex, unscripted problems they will encounter during and after college" for both first year and senior students "compared to all CSUs”.
- Exceed peer institutions in measure of "students learn firsthand how experts think about and solve problems by interacting with faculty members inside and outside of instructional settings" for both first year and senior students "compared to all CSUs".
- Exceed peer institutions in measure of "students benefit and are more satisfied in supportive settings that cultivate positive relationships among students, faculty and staff" for both first year and senior students "compared to all CSUs".
