Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. She saw that certain processes and procedures, such as schedules and transcript evaluations, could be unique and not simply replications from four-year institutions. For 41 years, Dr. Karen A.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

The Challenge: Deliver on the mission to provide holistic services that support the success of every student every day. The Strategy: Adopt an integrated and holistic student success management model and implement a unified student success platform to make personalized support feasible at scale.

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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

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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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. Faculty should know students’ preferred names and use them from the very start.

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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

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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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. Implementing a comprehensive academic planning and student scheduling solution was well-received, with 75% of students adopting it during the initial launch. “Our

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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. How are they doing this?

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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. Student Success is more than improving graduation rates.

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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. Additionally, advisors and the registrar’s team invested significant time manually preloading students’ schedules before new student orientation.

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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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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 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. Engaged Faculty It can be exceptionally hard for institutions of any size to engage faculty in student success efforts.

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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?” I think students would benefit from more explicit instruction in how to be successful in online classes,” said Bickerstaff. “A

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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

AUGUST 10, 2023

In Civitas Learning’s most recent Student Success Impact Report , we examined a broad range of student success initiatives across 48 institutions. Declining enrollment, increasing competition, and shifting student priorities only add to the challenge of improving student success. PP positive impact. PP outcome.

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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? early attendance reports, mid-semester progress, etc.),

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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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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. Proactive advising One of ACC’s biggest and most impactful student success developments has been the rollout of academic alerts.

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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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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

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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% UC’s administrators invested in the Civitas Learning Student Impact Platform to support a holistic advising approach required to meet the goals of Bearcat Promise.

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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

JULY 11, 2024

Effective communication, guidance, and resources are foundational to an effective student success strategy. Unified Understanding of Student Success Student success doesn’t rest on the shoulders of one department — it’s the responsibility of the entire institution. Read the Blog 2.

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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 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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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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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. But by doing a bit of internal research first, you’re more likely to hit upon a solution that proves successful for your unique institution and student body.

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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% The 4 stages of an integrated lifecycle approach to success 1.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Strategy: Empower success teams to use institution-specific analytics and insights to uncover barriers faster and connect students to the most beneficial support. The Challenge: Administrators and staff lacked the real-time information necessary to reach struggling students before it was too late.

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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 Registration is encouraged.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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. Proactive Student Success Culture Improves Outcomes for All at the University of Cincinnati.

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