Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

As Inside Higher Ed notes, “Students often turn to their faculty members for advice and support outside of academics, including career advice and mental health support, so positive student-faculty relationships are a critical piece of student success.” Investing in faculty development resulted in a significant 11.4%

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Institutions shifting their focus from solely graduating students to developing their full potential are redefining what student success truly means. Across the Civitas Learning community, institutions continuously assess how well they meet students’ needs and remove barriers to success.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 11, 2024

The current process was confusing and time-consuming, and students didn’t enjoy it as it was their least favorite assignment in the Student Success Course. Advisors found it frustrating to work with a manual workflow that made academic planning interactions with students a one-time event instead of an ongoing conversation.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Civitas Learning’s Texas Leadership Workshop recently brought together leaders from ten different institutions across Texas and beyond to discuss student success strategies for higher education. However, student feedback revealed redundancy in conversations and information sharing between advisors and coaches.

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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. Adaptable analytics simplifies that process.

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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. Advisors used various tactics to help students plan, from spreadsheets to handwritten worksheets but lacked a centralized system for communication.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Blogs 30 Student Success Priorities for the 2020s All my attention over the last two years has been spent studying the future of students and student success as we emerge from the pandemic. Notably, I am monitoring three macro trends that will converge in the mid-2020s and reshape the student success landscape.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 23, 2024

In addition to lowering persistence rates, adding extra terms imposes a financial strain on students, which many cannot afford, while attrition leads to substantial revenue losses for institutions. Learn how Civitas Learning’s Academic Planning and Scheduling Solution removes common barriers to completion.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2023

But what makes some students persist to graduation and others not? In Civitas Learning’s most recent Student Success Impact Report , we examined a broad range of student success initiatives across 48 institutions. Academic advising is a bedrock of any student’s successful persistence toward graduation.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In 2019, its president rolled out the Bearcat Promise , a pledge that all students will leave the university with a degree in one hand and a career plan in the other. Through a consistent focus on student success that embraces its identity as an urban public research university, UC has achieved remarkable outcomes, including: a 15.8%

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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. They also required insights into classroom performance and whether students used recommended support resources to complete their degrees.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 9, 2023

Recent research from New America indicates that poorly designed early alert interventions can work against your student success efforts and even deepen equity gaps for students of color and other underserved student groups. When Do Early Alerts Harm Student Success Efforts?

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Blogs 30 Student Success Priorities for the 2020s All my attention over the last two years has been spent studying the future of students and student success as we emerge from the pandemic. Notably, I am monitoring three macro trends that will converge in the mid-2020s and reshape the student success landscape.

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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

MAY 28, 2024

Austin Community College (ACC) is one of many institutions committed to student success amidst this enrollment uptick, especially among first-generation and underrepresented students. This allows advisors to reach students in the time and manner that works best for them, resulting in a 75% participation rate.

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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

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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EAB

APRIL 14, 2023

Blogs The 4 stages of an integrated lifecycle approach for community college student success How EAB’s Navigate helps community colleges at every stage There is encouraging data showing that six-year completion rates have been rising across all community colleges, with a.9% Here’s what we learned.

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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? How easy is it for students to get through their curriculum? What do persistence rates look like?

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This data-activated approach has resulted in Administrators knowing sooner and more precisely which students need support Student success staff working more efficiently and effectively thanks to enhanced workflow and communication capabilities. With additional timely insight, Dr.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Like many higher education institutions, DeVry is always working to improve student engagement, provide awareness of valuable student success resources, encourage the adoption of these success resources, and provide the necessary support around the clock when their students need it.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 11, 2023

What should I take into consideration in terms of class timing/scheduling? Actionable Advisor Dashboard is Now Available Actionable advisor insights dashboard includes student group quick links, student communication history, an action-oriented dashboard, and an easier early alert workflow. We love our student users!)

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Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

OCTOBER 1, 2024

To remedy this, some institutions are supporting student success through a broader acceptance of transfer credit and other practices aimed at reducing costs to students.” Inside Higher Ed Article Transfer Resources “Transfer Advising Essentials: What’s New?” Transfer Advising Committee Minutes

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This list celebrates the amazing work our partners do each day to help their students thrive. Below, explore popular topics like using student success analytics to manage capacity constraints and advance equity or building coordinated student success networks. Coordinated Student Success Networks.

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Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Effective academic advising teams have the power to significantly impact student success, but often there are unseen barriers preventing advisors from reaching the right students at the right time. A Civitas Learning study on what works for student success found that advising is the most impactful initiative (5.8

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

EAB’s Tara Zirkel is joined by Pueblo Community College VP of Student Success, Dr. Heather Speed, to examine changes Pueblo made to boost enrollment heading into the fall semester. Our special guest today is Heather Speed, vice president for Student Success at Pueblo Community College. Transcript.

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We’re working with our partners to make the advising dashboard the go-to resource to empower advisors to do the most efficient and effective work possible. We’ll also continue to ease advising workloads during peak registration by offering bulk registration capabilities.

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EAB

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Cross-campus communication issues, limited access to faculty during summer, and a lack of buy-in to student success initiatives were among the most pressing contributors. First, they created clearer advising processes powered by Navigate. Increase in faculty advising appointments scheduled. -->. -->. The Solution.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

The Challenge: Confronted with plateaued student outcomes, change was needed to assess the complete student picture and have the right tools to support them holistically. Proactive Advising Model Supports Guided Pathways Initiative Advising is often considered the most powerful tool to improve student outcomes.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 1, 2024

These initiatives can continue for years without scrutiny, or they may be evaluated during leadership changes or budget reviews to assess their effectiveness in helping students succeed. Regularly measuring the efficacy of student success initiatives is crucial for strategic decision-making and planning.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

But what makes some students persist to graduation and others not? In Civitas Learning’s most recent Student Success Impact Report , we examined a broad range of student success initiatives across 48 institutions. Academic advising is a bedrock of any student’s successful persistence toward graduation.

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Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

JANUARY 5, 2023

The annual COTA Conference is scheduled for Friday, February 24 th in Jefferson City MO at the Truman State Office Building, to run from 9am-3pm. The minutes from the Transfer Advising Committee’s most recent meeting can be found below. Transfer Advising Committee Meeting Minutes. Inside Higher Ed Article.

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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. They also required insights into classroom performance and whether students used recommended support resources to complete their degrees.

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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. You are a strategic leader in higher ed, juggling multiple student success priorities and initiatives. Talk about a recipe for burnout! We can help.

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