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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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

The Outcomes: An 8% increase in retention, improved advising efficiency, and more effective cross-functional collaboration. To advise students effectively, we needed to see the whole picture.” Before we had the Civitas Learning platform, we could only see part of a student’s experience. It was like seeing a student in a profile.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

Through campus partnerships, support programs, and academic interventions, she has led advances in student retention, persistence and graduation with the goal of eliminating equity gaps for our most vulnerable students.

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Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Learn more about how advising appointments, notes, and outreach efforts impact student persistence at Civitas Learning partner institutions. The post Advising Impact Report 2023 appeared first on Civitas Learning.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. EAB · How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. That we've been working on intentionally for this past year, is the relationship between advising and our success coaches and the faculty. Episode 126. November 1, 2022. Transcript.

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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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EAB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Other AI enhancements in Navigate will make it easier for staff and administrators to generate reports on institutional student retention and success efforts. We are excited to pilot EAB’s new AI features to help staff save time, create deeper connections with our students, and have a measurable impact on their lives.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Across higher education, the desire for diversity among student populations is usually the responsibility of recruitment efforts but falls short in retention strategies. It is the institution’s responsibility to ensure long-term success and retention. However, there is an oversight that continues to happen.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. CSUSM gathers and analyzes disaggregated data pertaining to retention, unit completion and graduation. Morales, president of CSUSB.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

The grant is expected to serve the Morgan State’s Division of Enrollment Management and Student Success, which provides support to guide students through enrollment and academic processes like managing financial aid and academic advisement.

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Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I’ve lost track of how often I’ve heard the following phrase in college meetings, “The advising team can do it,” when talking about taking on new projects or duties. We need an approach to academic advising caseload management that ensures advisors can help all students and frees them from crushing workloads.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Also, that year the program’s retention rate of Latino students was 18% higher than the college’s general retention rate. Therefore, the program works closely with other departments of the college, particularly admissions and advising, to identify students who would benefit from EAP. “We WSU’s CAMP was founded in 2006.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

On the panel, “Selecting Evidence-Based Advising Strategies to Improve Student Outcomes,” Thompson spoke about equity being a top priority, noting that, if higher education does not serve its most disenfranchised populations, then it is failing. “My Sustaining success Retention rates have steadily increased.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2024

“Supporting Early Career Faculty at Minority Serving Institutions,” examines CMSI’s ELEVATE program launched in 2015, which supports professional development, mentorship, and retention for MSI faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Student success experts have prescribed potential solutions to declining Black student enrollment and retention numbers in California’s public universities in a recent report published by The California State University (CSU) Office of the Chancellor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

Williams-Goliday has been helping guide students for decades, first as an academic adviser for Eastern Illinois University’s Office of Minority Affairs beginning in 1998. And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University. There, she worked with students academically underprepared for college, she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the early aughts, Renick says, it was standard practice for student support programs to address equity gaps and low graduation or retention numbers through the creation of targeted programs, like initiatives for first-generation students, and African American male initiatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

Sharif El-Mekki This second session of the “How to Improve Educator Recruitment and Retention: Stories from the South” series took virtually on Tuesday. is facing a severe shortage of teachers, and the need is particularly present for certain populations of color, said Dr. Donna Elam, senior adviser for EAC-S.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 20, 2024

To amp up their retention efforts, leaders at NDSU developed a framework for enrollment and retention that focuses on student success, from recruitment to graduation and beyond. How can we improve advising? One of these initiatives involved revamping their advising model to be more proactive and student-centered.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

The goal of virtually all colleges and universities is to increase retention and completion. While performance-based funding has brought increases in retention and completion, it has not had the desired effect. Typically, the current funding model involves receiving funding after the institution shows improvement.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 30, 2023

Kelly is the Vice President of Academic Affairs at SUNY Broome, and with the collaboration of faculty and staff, the institution is now implementing guided pathways and transitioning to a caseload-based academic advising model. 19:06] – These initiatives don’t only help enrollment but also retention. [22:06]

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This sense of belonging is critical for student retention and success. This includes integrating Latine epistemologies into teaching and advising practices. By meaningfully weaving itself within the community, an eHSI can create a supportive environment for Latine learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu. In the last three years EPW’s fall to fall retention ranges from 93% to 96%. “I I track them in retention. Rueda-Acedo says the service learning is extremely beneficial in retention as well as the students’ personal connection to this profession.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Retention efforts Morgan State is currently number one in the United States in producing Black electrical engineers and civil engineers, Wilson notes. This requires thoughtful retention efforts. At that time, they transition to either a professional advisor in their school or major or mostly to faculty advisement.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2024

Hudson Scholars, an innovative student support model, focuses on retention and improving student outcomes by scaling successful elements of national best-practice models, providing high-touch advisement, financial stipends, and early academic intervention.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As a result, DFW rates declined and retention rates improved for students who took a course taught by an Equity Champion, with a sizable decrease in retention equity gaps. Working together, faculty reflected on their Ascend data and identified SEP resources to support the constructs they wished to improve.

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

As Northwest Missouri State University (Northwest) worked to improve retention rates, it recognized that faculty and staff needed a centralized location to communicate and access student data easily. Whether addressing a financial hold or advising on course enrollment, UTSA knows that every interaction impacts the student experience.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We’ve been hard at work developing a new course demand analytics solution, refining the academic planning experience for students and advisors, and elevating the visibility we provide advising and student success teams. This approach can significantly impact student retention, resulting in 2-5% uplifts in persistence.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 11, 2023

Data-Activated Strategic Decision-Making and Planning as the first step in a responsive process that improves student retention and completion in a way that supports financial health. However, it’s no longer sufficient to focus solely on academic support to increase student retention.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

We are also working together to place dedicated college advisors in Kansas high schools through the Kansas State College Advising Corps. Common recommendations included improved advising services, guided pathways for students, and proactive, targeted financial aid and completion grants.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Amid this steady decline, the University of Cincinnati continues improving retention and graduation rates, setting enrollment records, achieving diversity goals, and closing equity gaps. percentage point lift in first-year retention from 2012 to 2020 and even stronger gains for second and third-year retention A 7.7

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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. When Snow College accessed Initiative Analysis data to determine if all students benefit equally from a one-on-one advising experience, the answer was loud and clear.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

AI has promise in terms of recognizing student patterns and how they relate to student persistence and retention, said panelist Dr. William J. McKinney, senior director of higher education initiatives for the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Challenge: Delivering timely support to a diverse and sizeable student population to foster improved retention and completion rates. ACC faced several obstacles to fulfilling its goal of improving retention and providing students with the support they need to persist and graduate on time with a credential.

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