IHL Stretch Goals |
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| In 2007 the Board of Trustees of the State Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) engaged in system-wide strategic initiative for the public universities in Mississippi. A key aspect of this strategic initiative had each university developing stretch goals that concentrated on student success factors, including retention and graduation rates through the 2014-15 academic year. The USM Stretch Goals, submitted to the IHL in 2008, included goals related to enrollment, retention, graduation, the number of degrees awarded, the number of degrees awarded in the field of education, and the pass rates of the NCLEX and Praxis tests for nursing and teacher preparation programs respectively. The 2014-15 goals in each area are located in the column in gray. |
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Stretch Goal |
Baseline |
Year 0 |
Year 1 |
Year 2 |
Year 3 |
Year 4 |
Year 5 |
Year 6 |
Year 7 |
Goal |
% Chg |
Retention |
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| By 2014, Southern Miss will strive to reach a goal of a 76% retention rate for Fall to Fall Freshman by 2014 | 73.00% |
73.40% |
71.90% |
73.60% |
76.90% |
72.00% |
75.13% |
71.40% |
74.04% |
76.00% |
1.0% |
| By 2014, Southern Miss will strive to reach a goal of a 76% retention rate for Community College Transfers by 2014 | 72.40% |
72.80% |
72.70% |
76.50% |
79.10% |
73.50% |
70.40% |
70.10% |
73.20% |
76.00% |
0.8% |
Graduation |
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| Southern Miss will strive to achieve a six year graduation rate of 49% by 2014 | 45.97% |
47.50% |
44.30% |
44.50% |
46.60% |
46.90% |
49.52% |
45.13% |
48.44% |
49.00% |
2.5% |
| Southern Miss will strive to increase our total graduation number by 5% by 2014 | 582 |
639 |
655 |
635 |
678 |
623 |
773 |
621 |
730 |
611 |
25.4% |
| Southern Miss will strive to achieve a six year graduation rate increase of 6% for our White students by 2014 | 46.95% |
49.09% |
49.37% |
49.04% |
52.03% |
53.17% |
53.76% |
50.63% |
55.15% |
52.95% |
8.2% |
| Southern Miss will strive to achieve a six year graduation rate increase of 6% for our African American students by 2014 | 43.79% |
43.79% |
39.38% |
35.80% |
39.86% |
34.81% |
42.83% |
37.11% |
40.24% |
49.79% |
-3.6% |
| Southern Miss will strive to achieve a six year graduation rate increase of 5.9% for other students by 2014 | 51.43% |
53.97% |
33.33% |
53.66% |
33.82% |
43.02% |
48.11% |
39.60% |
45.99% |
57.33% |
-5.4% |
| Southern Miss will strive to achieve a six year graduation rate increase of 5.9% for our students with no Pell grants by 2014 | na |
50.60% |
46.70% |
51.90% |
51.10% |
52.20% |
53.63% |
48.00% |
53.20% |
56.50% |
2.6% |
| Southern Miss will strive to achieve a six year graduation rate increase of 5.5% for our students with Pell grants by 2014 | na |
44.10% |
42.10% |
38.00% |
42.50% |
41.70% |
45.90% |
42.30% |
44.42% |
49.60% |
0.3% |
Number of Baccalaureate Degrees Awarded |
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| Southern Miss will strive to increase the number of baccalaureate degrees awarded by 11% by 2014 | 2277 |
2263 |
2375 |
2555 |
2361 |
2520 |
2503 |
2425 |
2352 |
2527 |
3.3% |
Produce More School Teachers and Leaders |
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| Southern Miss will strive to have a 5% increase in our graduation numbers from undergraduate teacher education degree programs by the fall of 2014. | 242 |
197 |
196 |
294 |
235 |
219 |
307 |
289 |
259 |
254 |
7.0% |
| Southern Miss will strive to have a 5% increase in our graduation numbers from graduate teacher education degree programs by the fall of 2014. | 177 |
171 |
192 |
187 |
188 |
254 |
194 |
132 |
135 |
186 |
-23.7% |
| Source: NCATE majors | |||||||||||
Increase Passage Rates on Standardized Tests (NCLEX & PRAXIS II) |
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| Southern Miss will strive to maintain or improve our NCLEX current test score passage rates | 94.00% |
91.70% |
98.45% |
93.08% |
97.87% |
97.68% |
93.29% |
95.89% |
Avail. January 2016 |
94.00% |
n/a |
| Southern Miss will strive to maintain or improve our PRAXIS II current test score passage rates. | 97.30% |
96.0% |
96.17% |
98.43% |
93.84% |
97.22% |
91.41% |
92.98% |
94.90% |
97.30% |
-2.4% |
| Source: ETS, IHL, NCATE | |||||||||||
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