Strategy: Through Momentum work, increased advising, enhanced supplemental instruction, and other activities, students will be supported and better informed of their status in classes and retained from first to second year at an increased rate.
Updates: This ASPIRE strategy is aligned with UWG’s NISS Priority Action II above and with institutional actions described in other sections of this report. First-time, full-time (FTFT) first-to-second year retention rates continue to increase to 77.8% in 2024. In addition, fall to spring retention increased from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025 to 91.22%, up from 90.9% in 2024-2025. Attempted and earned credit hours by first-year students also increased.
Aligned actions to support first- to second-year retention include ongoing NISS and Momentum projects on data-informed decisions, course prediction/scheduling, and UWG’s retention task force, on-campus engagement, focus areas, First-Year Seminars, second year support, first year onboarding, HOPE restoration (30 to 60 hour checkpoints), financial literacy, early alerts for financial aid issues, and JUMP!—UWG’s pre-college summer program.
