COLD Student Success Committee
Statement of Purpose
In support of student success and continuous improvement, CSU Libraries advance student learning by assessing student information literacy competencies, evaluating library services, aligning student needs with their experience in the library, and leveraging shared analytics to make evidence-based decisions for student benefit and improvement.
Strategic Plan Goals to be Addressed
- Share knowledge to build bridges between strategies and tactics employed by individual campuses in support of Graduation Initiative 2025;
- Review current and cutting-edge research methodologies to identify the most promising approaches;
- Demonstrate how information literacy instruction can positively impact student learning and success and campus accreditation goals in order to develop CSU best practices;
- Collaborate across libraries and with campus institutional research offices to build models to triangulate library data with institutional, programmatic, and course data; and
- Communicate the impact of the CSU Libraries’ services, spaces, collections, and information literacy activities on student success to CSU stakeholders.
Committee Scope
For academic years 2018-19 and 2019-20, the COLD Student Success Committee will work to complete a multi-institutional research project to 1) establish the impact of information literacy instruction on selected student success indicators, and 2) inform best practices for information literacy instruction activities. Specifically, the committee will work with a data analyst to replicate and build upon the recent study published by the Greater Western Library Alliance, which investigated three questions:
- What effect does library instruction have on the retention of first-year college students?
- What is the impact of specific library instruction methods on the retention of first-year college students?
- What effect does library instruction have on the academic success of first-year college students?
During 2018-19, the committee will also work to transition the work of the former COLD Assessment Team (CAT) to a CSU Assessment Community of Practice.
Members
Members of the COLD Student Success Committee will be drawn from CSU Libraries that have opted in to the research study described above based on their ability to provide specific retrospective data on information literacy instruction.