Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Associate Level English for Academic Purposes Reading Area Community College (Reading, PA) The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Reading Area Community College (RACC) began in 2012 to strategically reduce credit requirements and accelerate student progression with the goal of boosting enrollment and success rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

While some, including community colleges, are building more housing on campus, it’s just as important that colleges and universities partner with nonprofits and private developers to create affordable housing for their students off campus. and at the Community College of Philadelphia it is $7,500.

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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

JULY 29, 2024

As indicated by several key metrics, over the past decade underrepresented minority (URM) students have made considerable progress in retention, graduation, and persistence rates. CPE is a coordinating board that oversees Kentucky’s public universities, community colleges, and technical colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We Having cohorts here is really important, especially for engineering and computer science because it’s a community that supports each other.” One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

These issues can point to great opportunities for fruitful collaboration and partnerships across institutions where faculty, staff, and students can learn from each other and build on the respective institutional resources. Natalie Youngbull serves as Assistant Professor of Adult & Higher Education, University of Oklahoma.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Community colleges have historically served as an entry point into higher education for underserved populations. However, we have heard from students that there are sometimes significant hurdles to transferring from a community college to a state university while staying on track to graduate. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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EAB

MARCH 10, 2023

Press Release EAB’s Navigate Platform Now Supports Student Recruitment and Retention EAB expands Navigate’s CRM capabilities to engage prospective students March 10, 2023 Tempe, Arizona (March 10, 2023) — EAB announced today an extension of its flagship student success technology, Navigate , to help colleges engage and enroll prospective students.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Following the institute’s collaborative sessions, leaders gained fresh perspectives on addressing issues hindering student retention and success. Using a unified student success platform facilitates communication, collaboration, and coordination among departments and helps clarify each staff member’s role in student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

Succession planning is a collaborative effort involving university and community stakeholders. She also serves on the Kansas State University Community College Leadership Program (CCLP) National Advisory Board. Christine Johnson McPhail serves as president of Saint Augustine’s University. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. 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. EAB · How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 17, 2025

This approach empowers institutions to uncover hidden gaps and drive outcomes like improving retention, scaling advising, and strengthening cross-campus collaboration. But too often, campus politics or complexity creates silos that block collaboration and coordinated support.

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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. For many community colleges, identifying the right support for their increasingly diverse population isn’t easy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Salcedo is the director of the Center for Community College Partnerships at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Alexander observes that many high school and community college students see no connection to the university, therefore building pathways to higher education is part of AAP’s outreach.

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Timely MD

MAY 9, 2023

The 1,038 community colleges in the U.S. play an important role for students and communities, providing a quality education that prepares students for jobs or to transfer to four-year colleges and universities. The average age of a community college student is 27, and 35% of students are between the ages of 22 and 39.

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Timely MD

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Community colleges are vital in providing accessible higher education opportunities to diverse student populations in rural, suburban, and urban communities alike. What is a community college? Community colleges are often the educational hub and significant workforce development driver in the regions they serve.

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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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Civitas Learning

MAY 30, 2023

At SUNY Broome Community College, Dr. Penny Kelly explains that they’ve taken some new approaches to how they use data and technology. According to Penny, these changes have not only helped with enrollment but with retention as well, and these initiatives have boosted the student experience through relationship building.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 8, 2023

Silos persist, differing definitions of student success hinder collaboration, and institutions struggle to establish a consistent and centralized knowledge base. There are numerous collaboration models in higher education, and each institution must create a model that suits its identity and needs.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 28, 2024

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Youtube Music | Full Transcript Community colleges are seeing increased enrollment as more students pursue short-term degrees and vocational programs.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 1, 2024

Collaboration is Key Collaboration between faculty, advisors, support services, community-based organizations, employers, and students is also key to holistic support. One featured partnership between the City Colleges of Chicago and One Million Degrees is having a measurable effect on student retention and success.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Traditional metrics, such as retention and graduation rates, don’t fully capture whether students succeed during college. Uncovering What Factors Drive Student Success Institutions recognize that student success goes beyond academic supportit requires collaboration across departments and a network of care.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Tailoring and implementing the right mix of initiatives for each institution is crucial to improving retention and graduation rates. Northwest’s student success model relies on collaboration between faculty, advisors, and student support units, such as diversity and inclusion, the registrar’s office, and the athletics department.

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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.

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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. For many community colleges, identifying the right support for their increasingly diverse population isn’t easy.

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EAB

MARCH 24, 2023

Blogs What 70+ higher ed leaders are saying about staff recruitment and retention in today's competitive labor market Competition for talent is at an all-time high, forcing colleges and universities to rethink their historical approach to attracting and retaining talented staff on their campuses.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

Blogs 3 Tips to Streamline Community College Compliance Reporting How to save time and move your data strategy from disparate to deliberate Community College IR and IE offices spend weeks (if not months) each year on IPEDS and other compliance reports.

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EAB

JANUARY 13, 2023

Modern Student Experience Diagnostic for Community Colleges. Modern student expectations are everchanging—can your community college keep up? Community college student demographics are shifting, nontraditional is the new norm, mental health is in crisis, and learning flexibility is a growing demand.

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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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EAB

AUGUST 23, 2023

Review these 7 aspects of your basic needs strategy before the semester begins Community colleges play a vital role in higher education, offering affordable and accessible pathways to academic and professional success. Collaborations with local food banks, grocery stores, and community organizations can help sustain these programs.

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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 We started to notice detachment from the college and detachment from their work.

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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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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. Here’s what we learned.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Insights from Dr. Tiffany Ray-Patterson, VP of Student Success at Germanna Community College Based on our Office Hours with EAB podcast, Episode 166, Could Your Students Benefit from “One Front Door” Onboarding? Blogs What is “one front door” onboarding and how could it help your students? Three key takeaways for your institution 1.

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EAB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

CONNECTED is my favorite time of year in the Student Success Collaborative , and this year did not disappoint! We learned that students mental health may be the greatest threat to retention. How to Address The Two Biggest Hurdles in Community College Virtual Onboarding. Lessons from CONNECTED22. Ready to find out more?

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EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

A Gallup survey in fall 2021 revealed that two-thirds of community college students and an eye-popping three-fourths of bachelor’s degree students had considered leaving school in the previous six months due to emotional stress. How to Address The Two Biggest Hurdles in Community College Virtual Onboarding.

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Single Stop

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Collaboration with Colorado Department of Higher Education. By addressing the social determinants of student success, schools can improve student achievement in the classroom, boost enrollment and retention, and increase professional growth. . Red Rocks Community College. Community College of Denver.

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