Meet the Team
This team member recently opened registration for the Student Success Community of Practice.
Who is Dr. Cynthia Alvarez?
This CSU campus reduced the DFWu rate in BIOL 220 from 59% to 13% between Fall 2023 and Fall 2025.
What is Sonoma State University
This annual event brings together CSU faculty, staff, and leaders to share ideas and best practices for improving student success.
What is the annual Symposium?
This guiding principle centers decisions, strategies, and actions around the needs, experiences, and aspirations of students.
What is Student-Centric?
This team member recently learned how to play tennis.
Who is Dr. Chenoa Woods
This team member is proud of building the team's first dashboard featuring real-time enrollment data.
Who is Jasmin Dial?
According to the Student Success Dashboard, this percentage of first-generation CSU students enrolled in a post-graduation program.
What is 22%?
This statewide network supports counselors, advisors, and educators working to improve student transfer and success.
What is Cal-CAAN (California Counseling and Academic Advising Network)?
This guiding principle encourages using evidence and analytics to guide decisions and measure results.
What is Data-Informed?
This team member enjoys roller skating and fashion.
Who is Khadija Bilal?
This team member rebuilt the dashboards into a modern Laravel application with a content management system.
Who is Sophia Jane Carter?
True or False: More than half of Chico State students enrolled in 15 or more units during Fall 2025.
What is True?
(The correct figure is 52%.)
Before these dashboards existed, finding this information often meant digging through reports or requesting data from analysts.
What is student success data?
This guiding principle recognizes that improving student success is a shared responsibility across campuses and partners.
What is Collaborative?
This team member admits to studying arcade games to improve their chances of winning.
Who is Gerry Young?
This team member says one of the biggest untapped opportunities is building a robust near real-time data pipeline.
Who is Dr. Roy Stripling?
Using the Equity Gaps Dashboard for San Jose State University, this course has the largest GPA equity gap at 1.37 grade points in Fall 2025 for Freshman/Sophomores who are first-gen students.
What is Chronicles of Education (LSTP 10)?
This platform helps students identify career goals, understand their skills, and connect to internships and jobs through a comprehensive online hub.
What is Futurnav Compass?
This guiding principle asks us to identify and address disparities in student outcomes.
What is Equity-Driven?
This team member was once a sports journalist.
Who is Dr. Shonda Goward?
This team member's portfolio includes Academic Advising, Learning Support, Career Services, and New Student Orientation.
Who is Duan Jackson?
In the CSU by the Numbers > How Do Student Backgrounds Impact Time to Degree dashboard, find the percentage of male first-time freshmen who graduated from Cal Poly Pomona in four years or less.
What is 43%?
The department's work is guided by an emphasis on this principle when examining student outcomes.
What is equity?
This guiding principle builds trust by making decisions, processes, and actions open and understandable.
What is Transparent?
This team member enjoys spending time with their three-year-old toddler.
Who is Gary Hopson?