Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Collaborative efforts amplify the impact of DEI work and provide a broader base of support in times of adversity. Communicate the Value of DEI. Effective communication is crucial in countering the anti-DEI backlash. Despite the current challenges, the future of DEI work holds promise, rooted in perseverance and collaboration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Scott Schirmeier The new Recruitment Management module improves Navigate’s customer relationship management capabilities and simplifies recruitment/retention for schools into one platform, allowing schools to implement coordinated communications strategies for prospective students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

The report separates programs into five subsections of support: before college, first-year students, bilingualism that enhances connection to the community, partnerships and experiences that put students on career pathways, and gender-based learning communities. Dr. Deborah Santiago, CEO of Excelencia in Education. Dr. Jimmy E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Zoom) communities of practice that allow administrators to work collaboratively to reflect on best practices and implement appropriate strategies. Collaboration among various departments, including academic affairs, student affairs, and equity and diversity offices, ensures a comprehensive approach to student and administrator support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

While MCC’s own equity audit showed that the college was taking significant steps to promote inclusivity in learning, the audit found a perceived lack of infrastructure that formally institutionalizes systems, processes, communication, programming, and accountability metrics for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Equity Community college Inclusion Faculty 290

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

As chancellor of Arizona’s most extensive community college system, the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD), with nearly 140,000 students, paired with 10,000 faculty and staff members, my leadership philosophy is that we all play a role in the recruitment and retention of our students.

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Community college Retention Faculty Leadership 214

Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Outdated Systems — Legacy systems often aren’t created for easy collaboration, complicating data quality management. This approach ensures that data remains consistently clean and well-organized for collaboration. Encouraging regular collaboration between teams helps drive meaningful change.

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Advising Retention Collaboration Student success 52

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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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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Student success Success Guided pathways Retention 97

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. I care more than just graduation at community college. And this co-advising model is 100% in collaboration with the institutional partner.

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Mentoring Advising First generation Retention 295

Civitas Learning

JULY 13, 2023

Our research into how institutions develop financially sustainable student success models reveals that the most effective models are living processes that intentionally knit together strategic decision-making, cross-functional collaboration, data-informed action, and consistent assessment of initiatives and outcomes.

Advising 97

Advising Student success Retention Communication 97

Civitas Learning

AUGUST 6, 2024

Using data to discover when students are active online and which platforms they’re on enables institutions to improve communication and increase engagement. Not only did the campaign generate new activity on social media platforms, but they also saw retention improvements as a result of their intentional emotional support.

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Students Collaboration Student success Success 122

Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Outcomes: This ability to deepen their work has led to a better student experience, improved student services, and a more collaborative approach. This ability to deepen their work has led to a better student experience, improved student services, and a more collaborative approach.

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University Student success Collaboration Success 97

Steve Keating

MAY 16, 2024

CEOs of top performing companies invest a massive amount of time ensuring that the organization’s culture is one of two-way trust, with a growth mindset and exceptional lines of communication. Communicate Effectively. Transparent communication is essential for fostering trust and alignment within the organization.

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Inclusion Communication Success Collaboration 99

EAB

JANUARY 20, 2023

Eager Although your institution may already have a policy in place, it is important to make intentional decisions that actualize the cost savings, talent retention, and productivity benefits of flexible work. Next step: Begin drafting your institution’s policy.

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Retention Communication Collaboration Instruction 94

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

To address this problem, Jean — who is the assistant provost for special programs at Montclair — has been helping to lead the charge to increase male enrollment at the university, all the while forging collaborative partnerships with the surrounding community. Responding to a crisis The charge from Dr. Junius J.

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Title IV Financial aid Retention Mentoring 295

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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Student success Success Retention Advising 98

Timely MD

MARCH 7, 2024

Director of Leadership Development and Talent Management, Montgomery County Community College; and Jacqueline Bichsel, Ph.D., A retention crisis in higher ed “There’s a retention crisis in higher ed,” according to Bichsel. “In Kelly Crace, Ph.D., Director of Research, CUPA-HR. in the 2020-21 academic year to 14.3%

Faculty 52

Faculty Retention Mental health Higher education 52

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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Faculty Community college Case manager Advising 52

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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Faculty Community college Case manager Advising 52

Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

MARCH 2, 2017

Social media are the go-to engagement channels for both traditional campus communicators and online-only education programs. Retention – Proactive and Triage. When institutions create first-year experience programs, they are creating foundations for future success and retention potential.

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Retention Student success Success Higher education 52

EAB

DECEMBER 8, 2022

CHRO communications have traditionally been internally focused, with most dedicated to transactional policy updates or reactive responses to employee concerns. Retention rate. When equipped with these resources and data, a savvy CHRO measures progress on key talent metrics and communicates issues or priorities back to the cabinet.

Humanities 52

Humanities Retention Communication Collaboration 52

EAB

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The most common questions in this category centered around management, schedules, and student acceleration and retention policies. In particular, our researchers noticed an uptick in questions about third-grade reading retention. We also received a substantial number of requests related to our Teacher Morale Collaborative.

Retention 52

Retention Instruction Inclusion Collaboration 52

Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A close partnership between traditional student success units and Institutional Research (IR) is one collaborative relationship that makes a real difference for students. This data-activated, collaborative approach is an incredibly powerful tool for Student Success teams to feasibly deliver proactive rather than reactive support.

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Student success Success Tutoring Students 105

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Does taking more rigorous high school courses (AP, IB, honors, dual enrollment) impact student success (retention & graduation) in college? Increasing undergraduate student success is critical to the mission of t he University of Arizona (UAZ).

Student success 52

Student success Success Retention Students 52

Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Outcomes: This ability to focus their work on specific student groups and provide tailored guidance led to a better student experience, improved student services, and a more collaborative approach. This ability to deepen their work has led to a better student experience, improved student services, and a more collaborative approach.

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University Student success Collaboration Success 52

EAB

MAY 17, 2023

Now in 2023, issues with academic readiness and social isolation are having meaningful impacts on retention and student success, including an entirely new phenomenon – “move-in melt.” We also provide more hands-on support through our newly launched Financial Performance Collaborative.

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Mental health University Retention Instruction 105

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

It has been well established that Academic Advisement services have a positive impact on student success and retention, but the structures and approaches vary widely across institutions and at times, even within an institution. Varied approaches to proactive communication— with some areas still functioning in an outdated reactive model.

Advising 52

Advising Communication Grant Curriculum 52

Civitas Learning

APRIL 23, 2024

Moreover, barriers to retention, such as classes not offered in a certain term or conflicting courses, can lead students to under-enroll in courses or enroll in courses they don’t need to complete their degree. When questions arise, students can easily seek guidance by communicating directly with advisors.

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Scheduling Advising Student success Success 90

Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A close partnership between traditional student success units and Institutional Research (IR) is one collaborative relationship that makes a real difference for students. This data-activated, collaborative approach is an incredibly powerful tool for Student Success teams to feasibly deliver proactive rather than reactive support.

Student success 52

Student success Success Collaboration Tutoring 52

The Advisor That Cares

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Advising Team: Like-minded solution-oriented workgroups collaborate and cross collaborate to identify and implement solutions for orientation, enrollment and support for current and prospective students by Fall 2025 while reevaluating “standardized” touch points and robotic interaction limiting scalability.

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Advising Collaboration Scheduling Communication 40

EAB

JANUARY 12, 2023

Between a pandemic, a national racial reckoning, and increasing challenges to the higher education business model, student affairs leaders have spent the past few years looking for ways to innovate and collaborate more effectively across the cabinet. Increasing Retention Rates for Black and Latino Men. More on student affairs.

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Student affairs Mental health Career services Students 104

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more. Many tackled improving student success, retention, and equity at their institutions, while others focused on budget models and streamlining administrative processes.

Retention 52

Retention Higher education Student success Equity 52

Civitas Learning

APRIL 26, 2024

Advisors used various tactics to help students plan, from spreadsheets to handwritten worksheets but lacked a centralized system for communication. Read the Blog Unified communication and advising documentation This intuitive approach to planning leads to more impactful advising conversations.

Scheduling 52

Scheduling Advising Students Student success 52

EAB

MAY 17, 2023

Instead, a collaborative and inclusive approach is more likely to achieve successful implementation and adoption of new initiatives. In practice: Progress reports By thinking creatively and collaboratively, a public university in the Midwest was able to achieve record response rates from progress reports.

Student success 52

Student success Faculty Success Students 52

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. With this knowledge, the college could devise targeted retention strategies to keep students on track to graduation.

University 98

University Advising Success Faculty 98

Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2022

A holistic record of all communication (emails, referrals, SMS, messages, announcements, surveys, and notes) provides the visibility and context needed to maintain a cohesive frontline of student support. UTSA Achieves 16% Retention Lift with Data-Activated Student Support Ecosystem.

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Advising Student success Retention Case manager 52