Student Success

Project Design Overview: Connecting Resources

Supporting holistic student success by ensuring access to needed services.

Conduct a comprehensive review and realignment of organizational structure to better serve students.
Build infrastructure to better connect underserved students to resources to meet their needs.
Convene a Student Success Team, led by new Student Success Coordinator, to help “bridge gaps” between academic and student services offices.
Establish Student Success Ambassador program to support underserved students.
Provide professional development for faculty/staff on supporting underserved students.

Student Success Leadership

Dedra Cobb

Student Success Coordinator
303J Turley Center
304-333-3735
Dedra.Cobb@fairmontstate.edu

Dedra Cobb plays a central role in advancing Fairmont State University’s Student Success initiatives. Through Title III efforts, campus redesign projects, strengths‑based development, and national partnerships with the Gardner Institute, she leads work that strengthens academic pathways, advising systems, and holistic student support.

Institutional Lead for Gardner Institute Initiatives

Dedra serves as Fairmont State’s Institutional Lead for all Gardner Institute initiatives. In this role, she manages, co‑leads, and coordinates multiple national projects that directly support student success, academic redesign, and institutional improvement.