Equity Initiative Goals

Goals of the Ferris Equity Initiative

• Develop an equity-minded University
• Develop practitioners throughout our campus prepared to recognize and act upon patterns of inequity, especially in student outcomes
• Understand the inequities as a dysfunction of the structures, policies and practices we control
• Utilize data to inform our intervention strategies with students
• Apply analytics that allow us to evaluate the impact of interventions
• Empower students to make progress through pivotal moments of college
• Act through a suite of integrated tools to perform interventions
• Create a Pivotal Moments Path that highlights critical tasks to students
• Provide Self Service Tools to students
• Gather Critical Information from students through surveys
• Provide insight on student performance through Smart Guidance Analytics.