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

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Our schedules do not allow us to build our day around our academic obligations. It is difficult for us to commit to a lecture, course assignment, or academic advising session during what is considered normal business hours. The same goes for student support services and other resources. It’s what made earning my degree possible.

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Counselors' Corner

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

School has just started in many districts, and the counselor chat rooms are already rich with concerns about the subject we love to hate in the fall—schedule changes. It's a little late to change the rules in the middle of the game, but there will always be more schedule changes with the next trimester or semester. You don’t need to.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Louis Filmmakers Showcase and is scheduled to screen at the St. Rochester met her request enthusiastically, making the connections immediately and even setting aside time during her interview schedule for Steele to meet with them. I would advise them to do it cautiously. Louis International Film Festival in November.

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Ed.gov Homeroom

APRIL 25, 2024

BY: Gabriel Bermea, Visiting Scholar at The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) From the belief that academic advisors only handle course scheduling, to the assumption that they make all decisions for students, there are a few persistent myths about academic advisors and their responsibilities.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 2, 2024

Add commutes, work schedules, and extracurriculars to the equation, and students have the challenging task of finding a class schedule that accommodates their numerous responsibilities. One of the most common culprits of prolonged degree completion is poor academic scheduling that doesn’t accommodate student commitments.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 16, 2024

Students’ academic planning and scheduling behaviors can significantly impact their likelihood of persisting and graduating. Failing to register for classes, building incomplete schedules, or other roadblocks to successful planning and scheduling can derail students’ ability to persist to the next term and complete their degrees on time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Instead, new student orientation, advising, and other supports are focused on assessing whether students need remediation, introducing students to the college, and helping them schedule their first-term courses. And many of these supports are optional.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 11, 2024

Implementing a comprehensive academic planning and student scheduling solution was well-received, with 75% of students adopting it during the initial launch. In searching for the right academic planning process and technology, the Ensign advising team recognized it had to be intuitive and simple.

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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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Civitas Learning

MARCH 23, 2023

The Challenge: New student orientation course scheduling process overwhelmed students, prevented advisors from having meaningful student interactions, and made it harder to manage classroom space and observe bottlenecks in class scheduling effectively.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 23, 2023

The Challenge: New student orientation course scheduling process overwhelmed students, prevented advisors from having meaningful student interactions, and made it harder to manage classroom space and observe bottlenecks in class scheduling effectively.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 26, 2024

The Strategy: Implement an end-to-end planning, scheduling, and registration system to make it easy for students to receive guidance and find the classes they need to complete their degree. Additionally, advisors and the registrar’s team invested significant time manually preloading students’ schedules before new student orientation.

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Knowledge Avatars College

APRIL 10, 2024

Transforming Academic Advising: How AI Technology Can Support and Streamline Education Emiliano for E… Wed, 04/10/2024 - 17:52 In today's technology-driven world, artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing a range of industries, and education is no exception.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The university restructured to a centralized academic advising model for the first two years of college, ensuring that advising is consistent across all majors, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. Intentional course scheduling has played a role in student success.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

With Civitas Learning’s advising analytics and workflow solution, student support staff stay on the same page with detailed meeting notes, shared calendars, and appointment scheduling capabilities. Civitas Learning’s platform supports this model by providing a unified view of scheduling and notes.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 23, 2024

Learn how Civitas Learning’s Academic Planning and Scheduling Solution removes common barriers to completion. Understanding what steps are needed in the terms ahead to progress toward their degree can seem overwhelming, and finding a class schedule that fits the day-to-day logistics students juggle can be difficult.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2023

Now there are colleges that are mandating advising. Are we promoting to faculty to schedule time outside the course to meet with individual students to get to know them?” Linda García, executive director of the CCCSE, attributed this to recent changes in policy at schools. Colleges are making that inescapable,” said García.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Jacksonville State University (JSU) recently faced a big decision: embrace its Student Information System’s (SIS) native registration functionality or invest in course scheduling software designed to create a student-centered academic planning and registration experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

By example, the counseling/advising unit uses an intrusive model, monitoring students’ progress and regularly checking in on them. Several times, Tajrian asked to meet with Alexander, and despite his busy schedule he made time for her. This is achieved through thoughtfully coordinated and proactive programs and services.

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Student Minds

JANUARY 13, 2024

As PhD students, our schedule is different to that of other students. The government also advises that everyone takes vitamin D supplements in autumn and winter. So I try to schedule time outside (like breaks, walks). , and take myself on a walk or enforced errand to capitalise on what’s left of the daylight.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 30, 2024

Building individualized class schedules for each student is a tedious process that can consume most of the advisors’ time, especially during peak registration times like new student orientation. This approach saves advisors from manually building student schedules, and ensures students remain on track for on-time graduation.

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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. Advising staff relied on outdated data to generate piecemeal reports that only captured a small part of each student’s academic situation.

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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. Here’s a glimpse of what’s coming in our roadmap: 1.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

Student-Centric Degree Planning Our findings show that efforts to help students plan their schedules around responsibilities like work and caregiving significantly encourage persistence toward graduation. Academic advising is a bedrock of any student’s successful persistence toward graduation. PP lift with easy course scheduling.

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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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Counselors' Corner

JANUARY 3, 2024

Some offer a postsecondary planning course that gives college advising about 12-15 hours of their time, but veteran counselors know that’s just enough information to know what you don’t know. Early introduction to college advising K-8 students don’t need college advising if their parents went to college.

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NACAC's Admitted

APRIL 16, 2023

adding in some weekend hours, increasing marketing, and scheduling more in-person and virtual open houses are some of the usual approaches. Work with local employers to develop times and dates for the classes, keeping in mind the work schedules of your potential students. Promote (and support) flexible course schedules.

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Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Inside Higher Ed Article Transfer Resources The Fall 2024 Advisor Forum Schedule is Available! View the Fall 2024 advisor forum schedule and register today! The minutes from the Transfer Advising Committee’s latest meeting can be found below. Please make plans to attend academic advisor forums in the Fall 2024 semester.

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Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Missouri State News The Spring 2024 Advisor Forum Schedule is Available! View the Spring 2024 advisor forum schedule and register today! The minutes from the Transfer Advising Committee’s latest meeting can be found below. The minutes from the Transfer Advising Committee’s latest meeting can be found below.

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Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On Monday, October 21, the Academic Advising and Transfer Center, in partnership with the Transfer Advising Committee and the Office of Admissions, will be hosting a transfer-centered advising forum. Transfer Advising Essentials: What’s New?” Fall 2024 Advisor Forum Schedule

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 9, 2023

While many institutions utilize a regular schedule of “checkpoint” alerts (e.g., Related Resource: Advising & Student Success Playbook Evidence-based practices to help academic advising teams use data analytics to improve course success, persistence, and on-time completion.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 11, 2023

What should I take into consideration in terms of class timing/scheduling? Streamlining the Student Experience An ongoing focus for 2023 is an investment in user experience improvements to encourage easy, seamless interaction between students and advising and student services staff. Underprovisioning? Should these courses be online?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In addition to support services that include financial aid and academic advising, an example of supporting Latinx student success is the CSUSB Impact Internship, developed by the university’s Undocumented Student Success Center. Morales, president of CSUSB. This is a paid, on-campus internship for undocumented students at CSUSB.

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Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Inside Higher Ed Article Transfer Resources “Transfer Advising Essentials: What’s New?” This session is designed to provide attendees with information about exciting updates in academic advising at Missouri State. The minutes from the Transfer Advising Committee’s latest meeting can be found below. Registration is encouraged.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Additionally, the longstanding approach of advising or programs like tutoring managing student success often leaves faculty isolated and disengaged from this important part of the student experience. increase in student persistence—an impact greater than many traditional initiatives like advising or scholarships.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 20, 2024

How can we improve advising? Redesign student-centered scheduling and advising With countless options for improving student success, NDSU decided to focus on the handful of initiatives that yielded the biggest return on their investment. How easy is it for students to get through their curriculum?

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