NASH’s student success agenda reflects a commitment to expanding access and opportunity to ensure all students have the chance to earn a credential or degree that supports their upward social mobility. NASH's Student Success Framework is a powerful tool that enables higher education systems to intentionally assess their progress toward, and act on, the adoption and integration of essential student success and improvement practices. We are driven by a passion to realize student-centered success at scale, leveraging and reimagining multi-campus systems expand access and increase degree attainment, improve the quality of educational experiences, and lower the cost of education.   

This agenda and framework are built upon the ongoing NASH work with Taking Student Success to Scale (TS3) initiatives over a ten-year period that focused on scaling proven interventions in predictive analytics, transfer, and math pathways. The focus on student access and opportunity that guided the NASH Equity Collaborative also informs the NASH Student Success Agenda.  

As an association of systems, we also view this work through the lens of "systemness,” recognizing that this vital agenda is more than the responsibility of any individual institution but rather the collective responsibility of all institutions. Through “systemness,” we can accomplish more working through the system-wide collective impact than any individual institutions could on its own.