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Fall 2025 Mid-Semester Progress Report Completed.

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The Office of Student Success and Retention (SSR), in partnership with the SMU Registrar’s Office, has finalized the Mid-Semester Progress Report (MPR) for Fall 2025. As part of SMU’s Early Alert Process, faculty were asked to report grades for students currently earning a C- or below in their courses. 

Faculty Participation Highlights 

This semester’s goal was a 90% faculty participation rate. The final response rate reached 78% across all colleges, schools, and divisions. Notable participation rates include: 

  • Provost/UNIV faculty: 89% 
  • Lyle School of Engineering: 87% 
  • Dedman College: 83% 
  • Cox School of Business: 80% 
  • Simmons School of Education: 71% 
  • Meadows School of the Arts: 61% 

Purpose and Impact 

The Mid-Semester Progress Report is a key component of SMU’s proactive student support strategy. It identifies students who may benefit from additional academic assistance and enables timely outreach. Reports are shared with academic advisors, who receive follow-up emails from SSR encouraging direct contact with students and guidance on available campus resources. Students and authorized individuals also receive MPR-related updates. 

Questions? 

For more information about the Fall 2025 Early Alert Process, please contact Lisa Miller in Student Success and Retention at ssr@smu.edu or lamiller@smu.edu . 

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Early Alert Reports: Supporting student success from day one

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The Office of Student Success and Retention, in collaboration with the SMU Registrar’s Office, recently completed the Early Participation Report (EPR) process for all enrolled undergraduate students. This initiative enables faculty to record student attendance from the first day of classes through October 1, noting whether a student has never attended, has stopped attending, or has shown intermittent attendance. 

With a target of 90% faculty participation, this semester’s EPR achieved an overall response rate of 83% across colleges, schools, and divisions. The Simmons School of Education led with a 92% response rate, followed by Provost/UNIV course faculty at 90%. Other response rates included Dedman College at 87%, Lyle School of Engineering at 81%, and both Cox School of Business and Meadows School of the Arts at 76%. 

The EPR helps identify students who may benefit from additional support, enabling timely outreach and guidance. Reports are shared with academic advisors, accompanied by emails from SSR, prompting advisors to contact students for assistance and information about campus resources. Students and individuals with access to student records also receive EPR-related information. 

Mid-Term Progress Reports 

From October 21 to October 27, the Mid-Term Progress Report (MPR) rosters will be available for faculty to input current grades for students earning a C- or below. As with the EPR, MPRs are shared with academic advisors, along with emails from SSR to facilitate outreach and connect students with campus support services. The goal for MPR participation this fall is a 90% response rate. 

For more information on the Fall 2025 Early Alert Process, contact Lisa Miller in Student Success and Retention at ssr@smu.edu or lamiller@smu.edu  

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Early Progress Reports (EPR) and Midterm Progress Reports (MPR) updates for faculty

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Herschel Carter II with wife Tasia Carter

 

Dear SMU Faculty, 

After receiving faculty feedback about how we collect early and mid-term grade reports, we have made some minor changes to the process this year. In the past, we only asked for designated student populations during the early intervention period. Faculty indicated this often left them wondering what to do about the other students in their class who were at risk and communicated it was more difficult to record the information for only a subset of students. Therefore, beginning this fall we will ask you to identify at risk students in the early intervention period for all undergraduate students.  

You will receive a notification from the Registrar’s Office that early intervention (EPR) grade rosters are open on Wednesday, September 21 and are due on Tuesday, September 28 at midnight. Mid Term (MPR) grade rosters will be open Friday, October 15 and are due on Sunday, October 24 at midnight.  

The second piece of feedback we received from faculty is that you often do not have a graded assignment prior to having to report EPR grades. We understand this and therefore suggest that performance measures can include participation, attendance, and/or a grade. What is most important is that you, as faculty report a deficiency when a student needs to know that their grade or engagement in a course is deficient. You can make this distinction by selecting FA “Failure to Attend” or FT “Failure due to Testing”. Instructors with graded assignments might instead choose to enter deficient letter grades C-, D+, D-, F or indicate that the student does not currently have a deficient grade. 

These early reports provide an excellent time to remind students about course expectations and to positively acknowledge what has already been accomplished. In addition to your efforts, outreach from academic advisors and academic support personnel takes place for students who have multiple deficiencies. We hope to reach students who struggle in the early parts of the semester in order to offer resources to turn around their academic performance and experience.   

Thank you for helping us to make the process better. And thank you, in advance, for your assistance!  

Best, 

Dr. Sheri Kunovich  

 

Calendar for Grade Reporting 

Early Intervention (EPR) grade rosters open from September 21-28 at midnight 

Mid Term (MPR) grade rosters open from October 15-24 at midnight