Dr. Tiffany Mfume

Assistant Vice President of Student Success and Retention, Morgan State University

Dr. Tiffany Beth Mfume is the Assistant Vice President for Student Success and Retention at Morgan State University. The Assistant Vice President for Student Success and Retention manages new student and parent orientation, placement testing, Starfish Retention Solutions’ Early Alert and Connect systems, first-year advisement, financial literacy, alumni mentoring, and academic recovery among other programs and services. Dr. Mfume’s leadership has helped to promote ten-point increases in both retention and graduation rates. Morgan’s Office of Student Success and Retention (OSSR) being selected as national winners of the 2017 Hobsons Education Advances Award for Student Success and Advisement, the 2016 Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) Turning Points: From Setback to Student Success Award, and the 2015 Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) Project Degree Completion Award serves as evidence of the effective student success model at Morgan State University. Morgan is the only HBCU to ever have won these national awards. Dr. Mfume is author of the nationally recognized book, What Works at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): Nine Strategies for Increasing Retention and Graduation Rates, published in 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield. Her second book, The College Completion Glass—Half-Full or Half-Empty? Exploring the Value of Postsecondary Education was released by Rowman & Littlefield in December 2018. Dr. Mfume is a sought-after consultant and speaker in postsecondary education; she provides problem solving, strategy, mentorship, analysis, and planning assistance to her peers and colleagues.