SSC Charge (August 2020)

Ratified: June 2018 

Revised: August 2020

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 year 2020-2021 the COLD Student Success Committee will focus on the following:

• Review the findings of the 2018-2020 multi-institutional information literacy/student success research project
  • What are the practical takeaways from the research project?
  • How can CSU libraries leverage the research findings in support of student success?
  • Advocacy: how can the CSU libraries best communicate our message about the library’s role in student success?
• Develop additional library/student success information sharing opportunities for CSU libraries
  • (e.g., Investigate methods/efficacy of online information literacy instruction)

Members

• Two library deans appointed by COLD who serve as chair and vice chair/chair-elect.
• 8 members from library personnel across the CSU (alternating terms). For 2020-2021 membership will be drawn primarily from the group of Student Success Study participants.

Members will generally serve a term of two years; initial terms will be staggered terms of one or two years so that subsequent committees will have four incoming members each year.