Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Affirmative action policies have been instrumental in increasing access and opportunities for historically marginalized groups in higher education. grade point average (GPA), retention rates, and persistence rates) and socio-emotional concerns (e.g., We cannot support people if we do not know what they need.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Alexander is very accessible, very approachable for students,” says Dr. Claudia Salcedo, who adds that administrators can sometimes be perceived as separate from the students they serve. It is providing greater access for students from low-income, first-generation backgrounds. Coming from such a background drives him. “I

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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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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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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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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

By partnering with the Pell Institute, Ascendium is working to reduce institutional barriers to accessing and completing college and to help more learners from low-income backgrounds achieve their educational and career goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

SRU recognized they must invest in data-driven initiatives that increase retention and graduation rates for all students while also allowing them to identify the needs of different class cohorts and specific populations. Access to a breadth of insights provides context success coaches need to determine which alerts need immediate attention.

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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. The Strategy: Implement a seamless registration experience that facilitates student persistence to the next term, providing advisors additional time and opportunities to connect with students.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 8, 2023

Data-activated cross-functional collaboration as the second step in a responsive process that improves student retention and completion in a way that supports financial health. In this step, leadership teams facilitate cross-functional collaboration by establishing alignment around a shared definition of student success.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 13, 2023

Enabling Data-Informed Action is the third step in a responsive process that improves student retention and completion in a way that supports financial health. Access to real-time insights about their particular students enabled them to uncover barriers and risks faster and precisely understand the root cause of student challenges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

million grant – lasting five years – will go toward what this cadre of faculty and staff are calling the Transformation, Equity, Access, and Sense of Belonging (TEAS) project, which is directly aimed at aiding Asian students at UConn’s regional campus in Hartford. The search for the new hire is currently underway, according to Rola.

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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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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

SRU recognized they must invest in data-driven initiatives that increase student retention and graduation rates while also allowing them to identify the needs of different class cohorts and specific populations. Access to a breadth of insights provides context success coaches need to determine which alerts need immediate attention.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

I recently facilitated a survey of higher ed leaders to understand their data and analytics goals and pain points. The survey results made clear that leaders consider data critical to the most fundamental priorities at their institutions, such as enrollment, retention, student success. Faculty and staff can’t access trustworthy data.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 23, 2024

1 Identify Barriers to Accessing Courses on Students’ Degree Plan Many institutions struggle to offer students an intuitive method for mapping their pathway to graduation. Despite this challenge, strategies are available to streamline these processes for students and staff. Advisors view the same plan as students, serving as a shared canvas.

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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. appeared first on EAB.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

million grant – lasting five years – will go toward what this cadre of faculty and staff are calling the Transformation, Equity, Access, and Sense of Belonging (TEAS) project, which is directly aimed at aiding Asian students at UConn’s regional campus in Hartford. The search for the new hire is currently underway, according to Rola.

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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

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

JANUARY 13, 2023

Accessible campus community. Do you offer your students digitally facilitated interactions to help them find their place on campus with options like student clubs, athletic teams, and peer mentorships? 2 programs that facilitate positive mental health conversations among Black men. Flexible academic pathways. December 19, 2022.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Challenge: General lack of visibility into students’ needs, limited methods of communication, and technology constraints, lead to inadequate access to personalized academic advising and support. With this knowledge, the college could devise targeted retention strategies to keep students on track to graduation.

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EAB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We learned that students mental health may be the greatest threat to retention. While higher education has always played a crucial role in social mobility in the United States, seeing the realities of college access and social mobility was eye-opening. 2 programs that facilitate positive mental health conversations among Black men.

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EAB

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Learn to improve data adoption among colleagues on campus Most importantly, it gave us access to the available data, which let us move from a descriptive understanding of the situation into a more proactive look at the nuances in the data. We use Rapid Insight’s data analytics tools to understand and predict our enrollment and retention.

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EAB

APRIL 7, 2023

Case Study Longwood University sought to improve student retention using predictive models. getting the right class size, improving retention rates) it can be difficult to generate momentum for any non-essential new initiative. Non-essential” is an important qualifier—resistance from peers along the lines of “Why do more?”

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Graduate programs often lack the centralized infrastructure that facilitates (relatively) straightforward decision-making for undergraduate enrollment. EAB’s resident IPEDS experts often lament that the admissions, enrollment, and retention data that is readily accessible for undergraduate programs is not available for grad programs.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

How El Camino leveraged Edify to make multi-system data accessible 2. For example, they are planning to integrate their student success data (Starfish) into Edify and stand up an underutilized retention function to drive their student success strategy forward. Ensure that you’ve integrated and cleansed your data first.

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EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These responses doubled those of the prior year’s survey, and they far exceeded other common retention threats such as finances and academic difficulty. You can help them by providing quick access to simplified guidance on how to immediately respond to a student in distress. We need to prepare for many more years of this.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Technology can facilitate seamless communication among academic advisors, counselors, and health professionals, ensuring that students receive comprehensive and holistic support. Enhance accessibility by linking the career center to the Navigate360 app homepage for seamless student access.

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EAB

AUGUST 21, 2023

Through EAB’s Transfer Portal , our partners get access to a self service hub for transfer students and data for their teams to optimize outreach year-round. These types of sessions are often best facilitated by a neutral entity who is positioned to solicit candid feedback. Here are three ways you can improve transfer access.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Between July and September 2020, 13,003 students had access to the Get Ryerson Ready course shell on D2L, and 2,552 students (a 19.6% What We Did. What We Observed. engagement rate) actively engaged with content presented through a series of synchronous and asynchronous delivery methods. In Conclusion.

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COE

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The Council for Opportunity in Education Announces New Partnership with the Institute of International Education Center for Access and Equity February 26, 2024 — by Terrance L. Explore our collaborative initiatives to broaden access to international education and unlock transformative experiences for diverse student populations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

link] School principals must play a vital role in facilitating homeplace and Black joy by promoting, modeling, and holding educators responsible for their roles in contributing to homeplace. link] Many scholars have documented the critical importance of youth having access to spaces of joy and homeplaces in which they learn to matter.

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EAB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Further, low retention and graduation rates continue to affect overall student success and disproportionately impact vulnerable student groups (e.g., Read below for three solutions you can implement to shift toward student-centered advising and positively impact retention. BIPOC and first-generation students). Ready to find out more?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. & Alexander, L.D. Chapter 12: Brown, D.

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COE

MAY 8, 2023

Congress created the TRIO programs because it recognized that low-income, first-generation students often face significant financial and societal obstacles to accessing and achieving success in higher education. I have long supported the TRIO programs and worked to ensure they reach the most needed students.

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COE

JULY 17, 2023

His outstanding track record in higher education and his journey as a TRIO alumnus aligns perfectly with our mission to increase access to higher education for underserved students. Dr. Brown’s leadership will drive our efforts to create a more equitable and inclusive educational landscape.” McNair and Perseverance Blog Ronald E.

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