In a new report published today, the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) outlines how four states – Louisiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Wyoming – are utilizing partnerships between their state chief academic officers (SAOs) and institutional chief academic officers (CAOs) to transform student success on college campuses.
In partnership with Sova, SHEEO launched the Pursuing Alignment for Student Success Across Higher Education Institutions & State Agencies (PASS) project in 2024. This project, generously funded by Ascendium, brought a new learning community together designed to address the critical need for better alignment between state higher education offices and institutions to support student success.
SHEEO’s new report, Shared Visions, Shared Outcomes: Transforming Student Success Through Partnership, provides an overview of the successes and strategies of collaborations among chief academic officers at the aforementioned four state agencies and the institutions participating in the PASS project and how they are centering student success as a priority.
As part of this project, each participating state did a policy scan (provided in the Appendix of the report) to reflect on their existing statewide student success policies. This exercise enabled state higher education agencies to evaluate current initiatives, identify gaps in implementation, and examine how state-level policies influence institutional practices.
“The policy scan served as a foundation for deeper discussions between SAOs and CAOs, fostering a shared understanding of opportunities and challenges in scaling student success,” said John Lane, SHEEO Vice President for Academic Affairs and Equity Initiatives. “From using data-driven approaches to build a resilient workforce in Kentucky, to aligning financial incentives to workforce needs in Wyoming, the lessons learned and initiatives implemented by the four participating states provide valuable best practices that can be scaled among other states.”
Read the full report to learn more: https://bit.ly/PASS_sharedoutcomes.
