Advising, Career services and Communication

Class of 2025 Faces Tighter Job Market Despite Stable Hiring Plans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2025

The report emphasized that employers are primarily seeking communication, critical thinking, and teamwork skills from job candidates. Career services professionals are advising graduating students to adapt their job search strategies accordingly.

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Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference

EAB

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Blogs Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference The academic advising profession faces shrinking budgets, expanding student and administration expectations, and increasing turnover—all of which make it harder for institutions to think strategically about advising structure and staffing to support student success.

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4 Actionable Steps for Centralizing and Streamlining Student Care

Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Disjointed systems can lead to feeling like a pinballbeing bounced between financial aid, advising, faculty, and the registrar over a registration holdcausing confusion and frustration. Inefficient Processes Poor coordination and communication lead to duplicated efforts, wasting time and resources.

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Advising Students Collaboration Student success

3 Ways to Help Students Before They Fall Behind

Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

This approach fosters proactive, collaborative support by enabling the coordination of services such as academic coaching, advising, financial aid, and career guidance. This approach overwhelms advising and support teams and contributes to declining retention rates.

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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. -->.

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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.

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Grant First generation Career services Facilitation

Implementing a caseload management model in a newly centralized division

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Blogs Implementing a caseload management model in a newly centralized division August 9, 2023 Melissa Grant Associate Dean of Advisement, Office of the Provost, Pace University 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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Advising Communication Curriculum Grant

Innovating Through Failure. and Success

The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 26, 2023

The closest thing we have is advising or a help desk, but they're designed to tell the student how they can change their behavior to accommodate into our systems. That week alone, they spend 3,000 advising hours to talk to those students. You can use it as an extension of advising. If a university's a body, where's the ear?

Success

Success Advising Financial aid Grant

How schools are expanding student mental health support without hiring more counselors

EAB

MAY 5, 2023

The upper tiers represent high-intensity options such as 1:1 counseling, while the bottom tiers represent lower intensity programs and services. These bottom tiers often include scalable, preexisting services that include (but aren’t limited to) advising, residence life, health and fitness, campus ministries, and student groups.

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Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Supporting Student Success

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In 2012, I signed up for a professional development workshop and discovered my Top 5 CliftonStrengths are Communication , Woo , Consistency , Discipline , and Includer. Then the students are required to further reflect on their strengths for a career map assignment. “My Challenges.

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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. Social media are the go-to engagement channels for both traditional campus communicators and online-only education programs. Career services departments have a tremendous responsibility.

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Retention Student success Success Higher education

Repairing the College-to-Career Pipeline

The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 9, 2024

Eubanks Davis notes that her organization’s most likely connection point is the career services department: “Career services are often so under-resourced. The Braven model is built off the University of Chicago's Career Advancement model. And UChicago, according to their 2023 annual report, was a $10.3

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Is Your Institution ‘Gen P’ Ready?

EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Technology can facilitate seamless communication among academic advisors, counselors, and health professionals, ensuring that students receive comprehensive and holistic support. It's essential that your messaging is deliberate; click here to explore how to implement equity-based communication strategies.

Mental health

Mental health Student success Placement Success

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

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Scroll down to read about each of the capstone projects in the fellows’ own words. Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D., Scholastica Student Success Improving success for pre-health students Joe Fritsch, Ph.D.,

Retention

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Edify Accelerators: Custom Dashboards for Your Campus

EAB

MAY 22, 2023

The Advancement Accelerator houses advancement-related data, enabling leaders to identify opportunities to reach more prospects, retain current donors, and expand their advancement efforts to inform their strategy. Here’s what we learned.

Compliance

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Survey Highlights What Matters Most to Adult Learners

EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They also advise leaders to ensure they offer adult students maximum flexibility in course modalities and to highlight scholarship and financial aid opportunities that will make returning to college more affordable. Interestingly though, we also found that email still remains a tried and true communication channel.

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