Civitas Learning

APRIL 3, 2025

SUMMARY : Adaptable analytics empowers higher education leaders with real-time, actionable insights that evolve with changing circumstances, enabling smarter decisions, more effective planning, and stronger team collaboration to proactively support student success.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Uncovering What Factors Drive Student Success Institutions recognize that student success goes beyond academic supportit requires collaboration across departments and a network of care. In 2024, five key Student Impact Strategies emerged: 1. Successful institutions are also digging deeper to understand not just who needs help but why.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

It is crucial to adequately train faculty to deliver high-quality instruction and provide them with simple strategies to connect students to resources. This collaborative approach made it simpler for faculty to integrate the system in their day-to-day practices and share its value to peers. You are the experts.’”

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

Strategy : Shifting to a Proactive, Data-Informed Advising Model Despite their busy schedules, advisors needed a way to connect with at-risk students who were not actively seeking help. Advisors and Student Success Staff recognized that faculty interact most with students, making collaboration essential to improving student outcomes.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 28, 2024

Ruth Reinhart, Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Support Services at ACC, we learn how the college is transforming its student success initiatives through strategic scheduling, engagement tracking, proactive advising, and instructional collaboration.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 11, 2023

The vision of the Civitas Learning Student Impact Platform is to drive equitable, optimal student outcomes through better decision-making and collaborative student support systems. In 2022, we launched an all-new, on-demand learning experience, which allows your team to visit and revisit learning content as needed. We love our student users!)

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The Advisor That Cares

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Torn between addressing blended learning in advising as a benefit for students or to advisors. I believe that when we create significant learning environments about advising topics that help students connect with why and when they might need to know about a requirement, procedure, or general FAQ and How-Tos.

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The Advisor That Cares

JUNE 10, 2023

I really do have an opportunity to revolutionize advising within my organization. Now, I get to build my course, my ubiquitous resource, my example of revolutionary advising for learner and advisor alike.

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The University Innovation Alliance

JANUARY 26, 2023

The University Innovation Lab helps equity-driven student success innovators create positive change more effectively – with more clarity, collaboration, and impact. We can help.

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The Advisor That Cares

JUNE 11, 2023

The course outlines the student’s responsibilities in their college experience and within the advising relationship. Advising falls within both enrollment management and student success arenas. Secondly, I am excited for advisors to collaborate and combine their knowledge into resources for advisees to grow and learn.

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The Advisor That Cares

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

For Advisors: Transform transactional advising general information and onboarding orientation to systems, procedures, degree plan, resources to video, audio, and text resources in personally curated web resources by the Fall 2025 intake cycle for individualized flipped advisor guidance.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

The Outcomes: Streamlined platform lifts enrollment, cultivates collaboration between faculty and staff, and informs strategic investment decisions based on measurable impact on institutional goals. Proactive Advising Model Supports Guided Pathways Initiative Advising is often considered the most powerful tool to improve student outcomes.

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The Advisor That Cares

AUGUST 26, 2023

The fact that I can connect with learners from various industries and worldwide illustrates how much technology can be employed to strengthen learning and collaboration. Professional journals from NACADA are my primary resource for finding emerging trends within advising. Another system tracks degree plan requirements and progress.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

Strategy : Shifting to a Proactive, Data-Informed Advising Model Despite their busy schedules, advisors needed a way to connect with at-risk students who were not actively seeking help. Advisors and Student Success Staff recognized that faculty interact most with students, making collaboration essential to improving student outcomes.

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The Advisor That Cares

OCTOBER 30, 2022

This post is the first step in developing an influencer strategy that can help in the Innovation of Advising , which empowers students and advisors in creating authenticity in the advising relationship. Advising modules can include internal triggers to direct students’ needs based on assessments from within advising modules.

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The Advisor That Cares

JUNE 15, 2023

I am attempting to address all nine points in my Advising 101 Instructional Design. Enhance Collaboration – Teach students how to utilize tools and technology to connect with one another and their learning experience. Talk about right on time and right on topic. Needs Assessment – What are the needs of the learner?

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The Advisor That Cares

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I started advising for the ADL program in July 2021, along with several other online graduate M. During my time advising, I helped implement degree audit templates that would outline course by course semester by semester to improve graduation projections.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 23, 2023

The Outcomes: An improved scheduling process led to fewer registration mistakes, better schedules for new students, multiple efficiencies in advising workflows, and more effective use of classroom space. This works well for virtual advising appointments and increases student agency in schedule-building.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 23, 2023

The Outcomes: An improved scheduling process led to fewer registration mistakes, better schedules for new students, multiple efficiencies in advising workflows, and more effective use of classroom space. This works well for virtual advising appointments and increases student agency in schedule-building.

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The Advisor That Cares

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

I have created a personally curated resource of advising information. Building collaboration into my professional learning strategy, I seek to fortify relationships among the advising teams. Sharing the why, what, and how helps to guide the advising innovation. I have built a pilot Advising 101 course.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

Career services and career advising are available to most college students, but we know they are often under-resourced and under-utilized at most postsecondary institutions,” said Carolynn Lee , senior program officer at Ascendium.

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The Advisor That Cares

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

This creates a prescriptive advising full of information transfer topics that often leave advisors feeling unfulfilled. Through an innovation of advising, advisors will have a consistent message to share with their advisees, relieving them of their role’s repetitive and transactional aspects. What is currently well established?

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The Advisor That Cares

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

1 – Collaboration “Regular, reliable, and repeatable interactions with customers can also lead to greater customer satisfaction, productivity, and efficiency, along with a deeper appreciation of humans working together” (Gonick, 2023). This opportunity poses many future possibilities for the advising relationship. #4

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The Advisor That Cares

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Stepping into a leadership role in an advising office makes me reflect on the whirlwind discussed during the Four Disciplines of Execution (McChesney & Huling, 2012) in the Organizational Change course (EDLD 5304). I never realized how valuable those might be to students in a flipped advising situation.

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The Advisor That Cares

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Advisors have an opportunity to embrace innovation in the ways that we approach our advising relationships. My vision is that advisors and students will collaborate to create resources and communities that support and encourage one another as advisors step into mentorship roles and learners find peer support and guidance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. In this chapter, best practices focused on the areas of advising, engagement, instruction, and programing will be discussed. Dr. Erik M.

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The Advisor That Cares

APRIL 25, 2023

Many of us have stayed active in our collaborative group through a Google Drive and a GroupMe chat, both of which I host for the group. I always ensure that I provide helpful feed-forward to my core collaboration group and all the members of the ADL Collective GroupMe chat. Anytime, day or night, someone is willing to give support.

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The Advisor That Cares

APRIL 23, 2023

We have maintained our collaborative group through a Google Drive and a GroupMe chat. I, too, always ensure that I provide helpful feedback to my core collaboration group and all the members of that collective. Our learning community members are always ready and willing to support one another.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

For every report, schools must review instructions, compile the data, connect the dots from disparate systems, and create a cogent narrative. Since many states require additional reports (in completely different formats), this process can take even longer. Here’s what we learned.

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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.,

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The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 4, 2023

For institutions considering a new technology, he advises: "Don't buy technology, especially AI technology like ours. One of our partners, Dawn Medley , always says, 'There's no such thing as a silver bullet, only silver buckshot.' We don't drive the outcomes; we help students make use of all the resources available to get the outcomes."

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

There are things like active and collaborative learning, student faculty interactions, student effort, support for learners and so on. And so the area that decreased the most was active and collaborative learning. I talked earlier about that active and collaborative learning benchmark. Have you asked questions in class?

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The Advisor That Cares

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I suggested Friday afternoon review of the week’s collaborations where teams “check each others work” to help cross each other T’s and dot each other’s “i’s” so to speak. I pitched the concept of new year, new us.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 24, 2023

Nothing was more instructive than watching five years of those. You test, try, tune, collaborate, pull ideas together, and work towards achieving those mission and vision elements. I was on the early board of trustees of Western Governors University and was a part of the group that helped envision what that could be. I love that frame.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Northwest’s student success model relies on collaboration between faculty, advisors, and student support units, such as diversity and inclusion, the registrar’s office, and the athletics department. For University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA), they implemented a “hub and spoke” model to break down silos and promote collaboration.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 23, 2024

Identifying Bottleneck Courses to Deliver Precise Academic Support Visibility into the impact individual courses have on persistence and graduation empowers provosts, academic deans, advising teams, and faculty members to identify and address barriers to student success in a clear, purposeful way.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 6, 2023

This is an instructive moment at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where Dr. Valerie Sheares Ashby recently assumed the role of president. Co-Host: Bridget Burns , CEO, University Innovation Alliance Dr. Bridget Burns is the founder and CEO of the University Innovation Alliance (UIA).

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