Models for Comprehensive Student Success Initiatives Lessons from APLU MVP Awardees SD

APLU established the Most Visible Progress (MVP) Project Degree Completion Awards (or MVP Awards) to galvanize all colleges and universities to prioritize improving student retention and graduation outcomes, recognize universities that have made progress in effectively retaining and graduating students and to collect, and disseminate a cadre of effective campus-based degree completion initiatives and programs that can be used by other universities to increase student retention and graduation. Hear from representatives from the 2013 MVP awardees as they highlight their institution’s campus wide efforts to increase student retention and graduation rates across highly diverse student populations.