Accessibility, Career services and Retention

How Data Drives Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

IHEP identified these two institutions by using the Equitable Value Explorer , a free, publicly accessible site that analyzes data from colleges and universities across the country. offers 28 data dashboards with insights on enrollment, grades, financial aid, retention, completion, and student demographics.

Student success

Student success Success Students Literacy

Report Emphasizes the Importance of Professional Social Capital

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Connections, networks and resources help people understand, access and navigate educational systems and the labor market. Also, Black managers are 65% more likely to progress in their careers if they have a sponsor. The report also notes requiring ongoing career advisement and formalizing the mentorship experience.

Mentoring

Mentoring Placement First generation Inclusion

3 Ways to Help Students Before They Fall Behind

Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Today’s most influential leaders recognize that student success goes beyond traditional measures like retention and graduation rates. This approach fosters proactive, collaborative support by enabling the coordination of services such as academic coaching, advising, financial aid, and career guidance.

Retention

Retention Advising Students Student success

Impact the Student Outcomes that Matter Most: Introducing the Multi Outcome Framework

Civitas Learning

MARCH 13, 2025

Yet many institutions struggle to adopt a broader approach to student impact due to systemic barriers, such as departmental silos and limited access to actionable insights. With access to predictive insights across multiple outcomes, institutions can customize the framework to focus on what aligns with their mission and goals.

Retention

Retention Students Financial aid Career services

Accelerate Student Outcomes with AI-Powered Adaptable Analytics

Civitas Learning

APRIL 3, 2025

Four Ways Adaptable Analytics Drives Outcomes Turning data into actionable, accessible insights and getting it to the right people is a challenge many institutions face. To better support students, especially those hesitant to ask for help, institutions need to make these insights accessible across teams, with the right permissions in place.

Students

Students Student success coach Higher education Case manager

From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs

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.

Grant

Grant First generation Career services Facilitation

4 Actionable Steps for Centralizing and Streamlining Student Care

Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Higher education institutions that bring together previously disjointed approaches to student care gain greater clarity and drive measurable improvements in retention, completion rates, career readiness, and the overall student experience. Discover: Common challenges that institutions face in aligning care.

Advising

Advising Students Collaboration Student success

Student Success, Retention, and Employability – Getting Digital in a High Tech, High Touch Environment

Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

MARCH 2, 2017

Admissions professionals, academics, academic advisors, career services representatives, tutors, alumni officers, etc. Retention – Proactive and Triage. When institutions create first-year experience programs, they are creating foundations for future success and retention potential. Employability. High Tech, High Touch.

Retention

Retention Student success Success Academic advisor

6 ways leaders are rethinking their student affairs organizational charts in 2023

EAB

JANUARY 12, 2023

Large or small, public or private, almost all VPSAs manage between six and seven direct reports, almost always including the director of career services. Most student affairs divisions now own career services. of institutions today have career services reporting to VPSAs. -->. Go to resource center.

Student affairs

Student affairs Mental health Career services Students

Bridging the Gap From Education to Employment

The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

We've found a misaligned perception between how campus leadership and business leaders view student career outcomes. Ensuring Equitable Access. Career services offices, like higher education more broadly, have struggled with access and opportunity issues for first-generation and low-income students.

Low income student

Low income student Education Career services First generation

Impact the Student Outcomes that Matter Most: Introducing Multi Outcome Insights

Civitas Learning

MARCH 13, 2025

Yet many institutions struggle to adopt a broader approach to student impact due to systemic barriers, such as departmental silos and limited access to actionable insights. With access to predictive insights across multiple outcomes, institutions can customize Multi Outcome Insights to focus on what aligns with their mission and goals.

Retention

Retention Students Financial aid Career services

Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

In addition to the content from the subject-matter expertise and professional skills development sessions, the fellows also had access to EAB’s research library and experts, and they were paired with a partner to help develop ideas and get feedback along the way.

Retention

Retention Higher education Student success Equity

New Report Shows Pandemic Negatively Impacted “Gen P’s” Interest in College

EAB

JUNE 12, 2023

EAB notes that diminished access to in-person instruction during the pandemic created gaps in academic achievement and decreased opportunities for social development through classroom interactions with peers and teachers. Highlight career services and opportunities for internships and job placement.

Mental health

Mental health First generation Placement Communication

Is Your Institution ‘Gen P’ Ready?

EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Because Gen P sees career preparation as the primary value driver, institutions should emphasize job placement, internships, and career services. Strategies for Supporting Gen P Tailored Career Exploration: Utilize students' career goals to shape their program choices early in their college journey.

Mental health

Mental health Student success Placement Success

A Life of Ministry

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2023

There, McManus served as the coordinator of disability support services and worked as a minority retention counselor. “I After her time at PTC, McManus returned to her alma mater and worked as the coordinator of educational career services and placement.

Placement

Placement Teaching Student affairs Career services

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