PROPEL: Empowered to flourish
Re-designing student success through integrated data, human connection, and personalized support.
Flourishing is foundational to academic success
At ASU, we know that flourishing is foundational to academic success. Project PROPEL (Positive Relationships, Optimized Potential, and Enhanced Learning) celebrates the humanity of our students and builds a structure at scale that holistically caters to their success.
Imagine transforming
the student approach
By integrating academic support and creating personalized
engagement, the most sophisticated student data ecosystem
is able to create systemic care.
Real-time insights
Faculty who receive real-time insights and are equipped with data to curate individualized learning.
Adaptive support
Automated AI systems to generate tailored course material help based on a student’s needs.
Human connection
Student coaches have access to flourishing-informed training, videos, and resources that adapt to what students require at that moment.
Why it matters
Where traditional support models in higher education ask, “What’s wrong?” PROPEL seeks to shift the paradigm. It asks, “What’s possible?” That difference changes everything. We’re building on strengths, and it fundamentally redefines what success means.
Today’s students face different challenges than students faced even five years ago, and many aren’t singular. Whether they are first-generation students needing guidance, managing a mental health crisis while trying to keep up academically, working full-time while balancing multiple obligations, or a combination of these. Traditional support models were designed around a singular path, focusing on singular problems. Remedial education, financial aid, and counseling, for example, have often functioned as separate systems that students must navigate on their own or enter by default, with little coordination across their support.
PROPEL is different
It’s a new data-informed model that is responsive to the complexity of students’ needs, meeting them where they are. Designed with intentionality to allow students to flourish.
When engagement dips, PROPEL routes students to the right support: peer coaching, academic scaffolding, or intensive one-on-one help. Support becomes specific and grounded in what students are doing well.
Responsive personalization
How PROPEL adapts as students evolve
PROPEL integrates four pillars:
The Flourishing model, life design principles, analytics integrator, and tiered care into a unified ecosystem where data informs care, care honors agency, and agency is strengthened by insight.
As students evolve, support scales alongside that evolution.
To our donors, thank you
PROPEL was made possible thanks to the generous support of a donor committed to advancing equitable student support and the betterment of the student experience.