Student Success Summit 2025: Connecting Peayple and Priorities
The 2025 Annual Student Success Summit is a one-day, learning and engagement experience designed to promote innovation and collaboration among APSU faculty and staff, to support the holistic success of students. The event brings faculty, staff, and administrators together to encourage a campus culture of student success through keynote speakers, concurrent workshops and roundtable discussions that focus on the retention, persistence, graduation, and career outcomes of APSU students.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. McNair, a partner at Sova and Senior Consultant at the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U), is a nationally recognized leader in student success and equity initiatives. She has co-authored From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education (2020) and Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success (2016). Her latest book, Strengthening Campus Communities Through the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Framework, was published by Routledge in June 2024.
Program Theme
Program Learning Goals
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Facilitate idea sharing and collaboration to foster a culture of shared responsibility for student persistence, retention, graduation and career outcomes.
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Expose faculty and staff to current and promising student success practices at APSU and beyond to advance their work in supporting students.
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Provide faculty and staff with competencies and knowledge to thrive in their roles while advancing the mission of APSU.
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Increase awareness of current student success practices and strategies at APSU.
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Promote innovation through the use of current and emerging campus technology (i.e., AP Navigate, Handshake, D2L).