Rooted in Collaboration: The Creation of a Student Success Program
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This presentation will highlight the strategic campus partnerships and external funding sources integral to creating and successfully implementing the LAUNCH Network, a student success program founded in August 2021. The LAUNCH Network is an integrated, four-year, cohort-based program aimed to support first-generation and Pell Grant-eligible students at Goucher College in Baltimore, MD. Given a charge by Goucher’s President to create a comprehensive program, key stakeholders across campus from different divisions (e.g., Enrollment Management, Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Development, etc.) formed a steering committee to make the LAUNCH Network a reality.
The presenters will share their experience with the overall process of creating this program and provide context regarding previous Goucher initiatives that existed before the LAUNCH Network. Presenters will highlight how collaboration and an engaged community were foundational throughout the development of this program by reviewing campus stakeholders and offices involved in the planning process (including the rationale for their inclusion), obstacles/constraints encountered during the planning process, and how decisions and consensus were reached. The presenters will then briefly discuss the successes and challenges encountered in the first year and a half of the LAUNCH Network and highlight new partnerships (including with external partners) that have positively shaped the LAUNCH student experience and continued growth of the LAUNCH Network. Presenters will share exciting changes and collaboration plans for the LAUNCH Network following the arrival of our inaugural Vice President for Equity and Inclusive Excellence and shift into the new Equity and Inclusive Excellence division.
Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize the strategies used to embed collaboration throughout the development of Goucher’s LAUNCH Network program.
- Discuss effective collaboration strategies to create and sustain new partnerships.
- Brainstorm new partnership opportunities to pursue
Dr. Emily Perl
Associate Vice President for Student Success
Goucher College
Dr. Emily Perl has extensive experience in higher education administration across the divisions of student affairs, academic affairs, and enrollment management. At various points in her career, her work has focused on the areas of student success and retention, academic advising, first-year experience, student engagement, leadership development, and civic engagement programs. Currently serving as Associate Vice President for Student Success, Dr. Perl is in her 27th year of employment at Goucher College, having held several previous positions there. Dr. Perl is known at Goucher as a bridge builder and collaborator, who works across traditional higher education divisions to build campus-wide initiatives and strong opportunities for student learning and development. She has executed several college-wide projects, including co-chairing a successful institutional accreditation process; partnering across the institution to develop the college’s community principles; establishing a themed semester initiative; and launching student success software. Dr. Perl has recently added the supervision of the registrar’s office to her portfolio, working with them to develop and clarify processes in anticipation of launching a new student information system. She is a committed advocate for equity and inclusion and is proud to have worked with the campus community to create the LAUNCH Network initiative.
Dr. Perl received her Ph.D. in College Student Personnel Administration, with a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland; her M.A. from The Ohio State University; and her B.A. in religious studies and sociology from The College of Wooster in Ohio.
Dr. Jasmine Lee
Vice President for Equity and Inclusive Excellence
Goucher College
Jasmine A. Lee, M.S.W., Ph.D. is a diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice scholar, practitioner, trainer, and coach. She currently serves as the Vice President of Equity and Inclusive Excellence at Goucher College. She works with students, staff, and faculty to create inclusive campus environments through direct programming and strategic divisional leadership.
In addition to her experience in higher education, Lee is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI), a certified diversity trainer with the National Coalition Building Institute, and a certified Mental Health First Aid instructor. As a social worker, Lee holds a BSW from Eastern Michigan University and an MSW from the University of Michigan. She earned her Ph.D. at Michigan State University, using Critical Race Theory as a framework to study the experiences of Black, first-generation, low-income college students pursuing degrees at a Predominantly White Institution.
