Student Success Guiding Coalition

The UT System Student Success Guiding Coalition is a system-convened collective of student success leaders and advocates working to generate, sustain, and accelerate momentum in student success efforts and initiatives with an equity lens. Honoring institution-specific and asset-based approaches to student success, the Guiding Coalition shares lessons learned and best practices, facilitates communication and collaboration, and helps to ensure that equity-mindedness guides action towards common goals—at our individual institutions and at the system level. We are committed to ensuring the financial well-being, effective advising, and sense of belonging for every student within the UT System. And, we ensure that student voices and realities remain at the forefront of system-level decision-making, polices and practice.

To learn more about the Guiding Coalition’s work and engagement with equity, read the blog, "Collaborative Equity-Mindedness:  The Benefits of Systemness" by members Louie Rodriguez from UTEP, and Courtney Brecheen from UT Dallas.  The post is part of the NASH Taking Student Success to Scale (TS3) blog series.

UT Arlington

Ashley Purgason

Associate Vice Provost for Student Success

Kimshi Hickman

Assistant Vice Provost for Retention and Completion

UT Austin

Michael Nava

Executive Director of Student Success Initiatives

UT Dallas

Jessica Murphy

Dean of Undergraduate Education

Courtney Brecheen

Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education

UT El Paso

Louie Rodriguez

Associate Vice President for Divisional Operational & Strategic Initiatives

UT Permian Basin

Michael Frawley

Dean of Student Success

UT Rio Grande Valley

Jonikka Charlton

Associate Vice President for Student Academic Success

UT San Antonio

Tammy Wyatt

Vice Provost for Student Success

UT Tyler

Colleen Swain

Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Success and Online Education

UT System

Rebecca Karoff

Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

Wanda Mercer

Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs

Nichole Prescott

Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

Emma Gelsinger

Research & Policy Analyst