EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blogs 6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023 For the past two years, it’s been difficult to focus on anything beyond the immediate consequences of the pandemic. 6 trends to watch in 2023 1. 6 trends to watch in 2023 1. Between 2009 and 2020 one-year retention rates fluctuated between a low of 49.3%

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Improved Advisor Experience Many of our partners share experiencing a plateau in their retention rates despite efforts to improve student outcomes. We’ve learned from our community that an effective way to overcome retention plateaus is to shift from broad activities to focused, intentional efforts for specific student groups.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

We discovered the key steps leaders and institutions are taking to strategically –and sometimes dramatically– improve their retention rates. 5 High-Impact Retention Strategies While institutions continue working hard to ensure their students graduate, initiative results often fall short of expectations. PP when misapplied.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Supreme Court decision in June 2023 to ban race-conscious college admissions, and the fallout since then, have been sobering, including for Asian Americans who were swayed by SFFA. Beyond the media smokescreen, Asian American and NHPI students face a diverse range of challenges on the road to college access and success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-income students a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. In spring 2020, Black male retention at Whittier dropped to 30%. In spring 2020, Black male retention at Whittier dropped to 30%. With President Biden’s signature on Dec.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Community colleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. A successful balance between employee recruitment and student retention requires constantly evaluating strategies and implementing changes. As a System, we want more students to cross the finish line.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Through carefully targeted programs and partnerships that remove barriers to educational access and success, these leaders hope their latest numbers portend future growth. IRSC’s 2023 cohort will be offered to the area’s homeschooled students as well. Dr. Valmadge Towner, president of Coahoma Community College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Network members can credential people via ACUE’s new offering “Fostering a Culture of Belonging” and access live webinars, engagement resources, and a like-minded community. “As The network will start early Spring 2023 – online pre-registration opens this week.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

The gift comes as part of Fidelity’s $250-million initiative to support education access and economic mobility for up to 50,000 underrepresented African American/Black, Latinx American, Native American, and Asian/Pacific Islander American students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

John Pierre In 2023, the Southern University System Board of Supervisors selected Pierre to serve as the interim executive vice president for the Southern’s Baton Rouge Campus and named him chancellor six months later. For now, Pierre who served as a Judge Advocates General Corps Officer (JAG) for the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

There is so much talent and human potential, I figure in 2023 it should be commonplace. As she transitions into this new role, Gilliam said she had her sights on certain key matters, including student diversity, affordability, retention, and graduation rates. "I And it just isn’t.”

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Blogs 3 lessons on data management from our 2023 survey of CIOs and CTOs And action steps you can take today With the demand for data in higher education at an all-time high, technology leaders feel more pressure than ever to deliver useful data when their institutions need it. How can leaders find the time and resources to make progress?

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EAB

JANUARY 12, 2023

6 ways leaders are rethinking their student affairs organizational charts in 2023. Given the concern for student athletes’ health and psychological well-being, we know that it is critical that these students know how to access mental health services. Increasing Retention Rates for Black and Latino Men. Go to resource center.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Blogs 5 areas for community college leaders to take stock in 2023 And resources to help sustain your post-pandemic momentum Now that community colleges have weathered the storm of the pandemic, it’s time to take a moment to recognize all you have accomplished, and then to begin to steer the transition from a “crisis” mindset to a sustainability one.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 14, 2024

Since launching its strategic student success plan, the university has seen significant increases in retention, a notable improvement in departmental partnerships, student-staff collaboration, and workflow efficiency, to name a few. Here’s a glimpse into Northwest’s process for advancing student success from the ground up.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Hands-Off Controls Include: Data Minimisation ; Data Encryption Hands-On Controls Include: User Consent ; Data Deletion ; Data Retention ; Google Signals ; Data Portability Hands-Off Privacy Controls Data minimisation GA4 introduces the concept of data minimisation by enabling businesses to collect only the data that they need.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Positive Potential Minnesota also has the American Indian Scholars Program, which was established in the 2023 legislative session. A plan for mainstream colleges and universities has been laid out for intentional engagement in recruitment and retention. A vital component is developing culturally reflective support services. “In

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Civitas Learning

MAY 14, 2024

Since launching its strategic student success plan, the university has seen significant increases in retention, a notable improvement in departmental partnerships, student-staff collaboration, and workflow efficiency, to name a few. Here’s a glimpse into Northwest’s process for advancing student success from the ground up.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Creating a Customized Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Dashboard Elmira College's partnership with Edify About Elmira College is a private college with a total enrollment of 673 students, a 76% retention rate, and a 56% six-year graduation rate. Exacerbating the problem, Elmira saw several key IT staff resign in 2021.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Blogs Exploring the impact of high school course rigor on student success in college August 9, 2023 Mary Venezia Chief of Staff, Enrollment Management, University of Arizona The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

The PSSG – it was first funded in 2022 via the Consolidated Appropriations Act – recognizes and awards funds to institutions that propose to use the grant for evidence-based reforms and practices in pursuit of bolstering student participation, retention, transfer, and completion rates.

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Timely MD

JULY 30, 2024

Providing easy access to comprehensive mental and medical health care during critical times can be life-saving. Offering resources to help increase student retention is also beneficial for the financial health of the campus and local economy. In 2023, the state announced $7.7 The Ohio State University used a $2.5

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

The Strategy: Implement student success technology to generate actionable insights, improve visibility, and create workflow efficiencies to lift enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. However, like many institutions, it faced challenges in boosting enrollment, retention, and completion rates.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

With loan repayments officially resuming in October 2023, the “later” problem cannot be put off any longer. While loan payments will continue to be stalled for students actively enrolled at your institution, there are a number of ways they could negatively impact your students—and your retention rates— today.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

AUGUST 22, 2023

A focus on student completion has grown in recent years given this staggering statistic: 40 million adults nationwide have earned some college credits, but no degree or credential. The report’s analysis also identified points of consensus within the field. The result?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Those barriers lead to a lack of access to quality education for our minority students and students from disadvantaged backgrounds.” It sponsored a cohort of faculty to participate in an ESCALA program with an eye toward closing the gap in educational access and success for Latinx students. Claflin is starting its program summer 2023.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

These researchers pioneered and popularized the idea that retention is driven by “ student engagement.” Metrics: First-year retention Student engagement efforts started organizing under the umbrella of a “ first-year experience ” during the 1990s and early 2000s. Here’s what we learned.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 4, 2024

The Challenge: Facing declining retention and cumbersome scheduling, JAX State needed to address barriers to enrollment. Students require effective support systems and accessible resources to progress in their college journey, as success in college extends far beyond academics alone.

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

With trustworthy data stored in a secure location (known as a data warehouse), a data management platform allows your campus to govern data, assign data access based on user roles, put data into action, and develop customized dashboards. Edify automatically standardizes data from those systems so that it is clean, accessible, and trustworthy.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Our second cohort concluded in December 2021, our third cohort wrapped up in spring 2022, our fourth occurred in fall 2022, and our fifth occurred in spring 2023. Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs April 7, 2023 — by Terry Vaughan III The research will examine how TRIO programs can work with existing career services to provide comprehensive career support to learners.

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EAB

MAY 1, 2023

If you hear: It would be great if we had data on term-to-term retention. They don't have access In a Fall 2022 survey sent to new Edify partners, only 15% of respondents indicated that they had direct access to the data they need to do their job. But typically, the reason is simply that no one thought to give them access.

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EAB

APRIL 14, 2023

While this is worth celebrating, it’s also important to look at short-term retention rates to understand who is leaving community colleges early on. Even though completion rates have improved, one-year retention rates have remained relatively flat for the past decade , with a 51.3% for students starting in fall 2020.

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MARCH 7, 2024

A retention crisis in higher ed “There’s a retention crisis in higher ed,” according to Bichsel. “In In 2023, CUPA-HR conducted a second annual employee retention survey to uncover the factors that have led to this crisis.” Kelly Crace, Ph.D., Director of Research, CUPA-HR. in the 2020-21 academic year to 14.3%

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EAB

AUGUST 23, 2023

Review these 7 aspects of your basic needs strategy before the semester begins Community colleges play a vital role in higher education, offering affordable and accessible pathways to academic and professional success. Blogs Are you meeting students’ basic needs? And even if I had known, I would have been too intimidated to seek them out.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Thought leaders to follow Anant Agarwal Anant Argarwal ’s mantra is direct: “education is a human right–everyone should have access to it like the air we breathe.” We asked EAB’s top experts for recommendations on who to follow for new perspectives on higher ed’s latest trends. Here are a few people we are following. James Erika H.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Read on to learn about Germanna’s approach to making education more accessible to all types of learners—and how it’s helped them boost enrollment. By unifying the student experience and providing equal access to resources, Germanna achieved positive outcomes for both students and the institution.

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