We are excited to share the news that with the broadened scope and addition of campus-wide services, University College has been renamed the Division of Student Success effective May 2018. This name change reflects our primary purpose as a service unit, providing support to the degree-granting colleges and the university as a whole.
University College, previously University Division, was created in 1998 to serve as a central service for academic support, first-year programs, and academic advising for intending majors. Although the goal of University College has always been to serve the students, faculty, and staff of the entire university, early in its inception the focus was on new, direct from high-school, first-year students and intending majors. Over time, services of the Academic Success Centers were not only serving new first-time students, but a growing number of transfer students and serving courses at the sophomore, junior, and senior levels. The move to the new Student Success Center, not only allowed these centers to serve more students, it also provided for additional programs in study coaching, expanded Supplemental Instruction, and significant curricular changes in developmental math (with the creation of the Math Studio) and developmental writing through co-requisite models that have increased student success.
The Division of Student Success remains in the Office of the Provost and supports the academic mission of the university through Academic Support & Foundation Studies, University Academic Advising, and the Student Success Planning Office. Through these units, the Division of Student Success will help establish an ecosystem of programs and services, working with students, faculty and staff, that focuses on educational planning, career development, course completion, persistence, retention, and degree attainment.
Undecided/exploratory and College Credit Plus students will continue to receive academic advising in the Division of Student Success. As a practical matter, within Banner and RAPS, their college designation will remain University College.
With the help of the Marketing web team, a new website has been launched at wright.edu/student-success. Access from wright.edu/university-college will redirect to the newly designed site. We've also worked with colleges and departments across campus to refine online references to University College. In the days and weeks to come, you will continue to see updates reflecting these exciting changes.
We appreciate the continued support of the campus community.
