Persistence to Degree Committee (P2D)

The Persistence to Degree Committee was formed in 2023 to provide deliberate focus and university-wide collaboration on improving MSU’s persistence and graduation outcomes to attain Goal 1.1 of MSU’s strategic plan, Choosing Promise.

AY23-24 Membership

Charge

The committee is advisory to MSU’s executive team and charged with:

• Monitoring key metrics related to undergraduate student persistence, time to degree and degree completion.
• Coordinating efforts to encourage student persistence occurring across the university.
• Cultivating an informed Community of Practice focused on outcomes indicative of our public land grant mission through intentional faculty/staff professional development.
• Monitoring innovations and best practices from peer institutions, commissions and professional organizations to consider implementation at MSU.
• Generating and prototyping fresh ideas for programs that instill a sense of belonging, focus, and expectation from the earliest stages of the student journey.
• Evaluating ideas and making recommendations to university leadership.
• Assessing impacts.
• Reporting a summary of the committee’s work annually to the President’s Executive Council.

Co-Chairs

Vice Provost of Allen Yarnell Center for Student Success. Currently Carina Beck

Vice Provost. Currently Durward Sobek

Appointed By: Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

Length of Term: Term of office

Meetings

2-3 times per academic year semester.

Length of Term

One year, renewable.

Membership

Appointed by the Committee’s co-chairs

Reports Due

Annually, in May