IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 11, 2023

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona welcomed postsecondary leaders, researchers, and student success advocates to the U.S. The day’s conversations included inspiring reflections and honest accounts about challenges with accessing and using data to promote student success. By: Mamie Voight When U.S.

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Timely MD

JUNE 4, 2024

Maddie Kerr, co-president of the Active Minds chapter at Northwestern University, said the campus health promotion and wellness center offers free mental health first aid training for students to learn how to offer direct, concrete support to peers who may be struggling with mental health or substance use.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 13, 2025

Yet many institutions struggle to adopt a broader approach to student impact due to systemic barriers, such as departmental silos and limited access to actionable insights. Without collaboration and a unified view of student data, they only see fragments of the bigger picture. Interested in Learning More?

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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. In the end, the institution spurred enrollment growth by pairing the right technology with stronger collaboration and process improvements.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) was honored to partner with The Chronicle of Higher Education for its September 29, 2022 panel discussion on innovative financial aid for today's students. Panelists included: • Tim Renick , Executive Director, National Institute for Student Success at Georgia State University.

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Student Research Foundation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Bridging the Gap reports that first-generation students are more likely to report they are “not sure about college yet” (2.3 points higher than non-first-generation students) and slightly less likely to say they are “definitely planning to go to college” (2.6 points higher than non-first-generation students.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The survey results made clear that leaders consider data critical to the most fundamental priorities at their institutions, such as enrollment, retention, student success. In each of those cases, over 9 in 10 respondents saw data and analytics as important to finding success. Dive Deeper Download the complete survey report.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

From 2011 to 2021, the percentage of students who experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness steadily rose from 28% to 42%, and while many pandemic stressors have since declined, students are currently experiencing all-time rates of depression, anxiety and suicidality with no signs of slowing. So this is really nice.

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Supporting Student Success

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

At first these were mostly made up words with definitions that were new to me but as a I learned more, I understood how useful this tool could be. Discovering my CliftonStrengths improved the way I saw myself, elevated my study habits, enhanced the way I approached my work, and gave me a common language to use when advising students.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

Creating this data foundation requires that campuses follow five key pillars to design effective data governance: institutional data ownership data governance structures enterprise data value data quality assurance data access controls Get more insights Create a collaborative campus culture through effective data governance.

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Blackboard Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Some common themes we heard about strategy included the following: Depending on the institution’s resources and parameters, a one-stop strategy can be operational within a year through collaborative planning and commitment. Many institutions implement one-stops to increase low student satisfaction levels.

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NACAC's Admitted

AUGUST 10, 2023

iStock NACAC, in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and several other organizations, is carefully exploring admission policies and practices in an increasingly test-optional or test-free environment. A large number of non-academic factors, such as income level, exert a powerful influence on student persistence.

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EAB

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The three urge schools to invest in transfer advisors, website improvements, and auxiliary services designed to help transfer students build engagement with staff and other students even before they arrive on your campus. MS: Ted it's interesting you mentioned the demographic cliff and being one of the definitely up at night issues.

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EAB

AUGUST 8, 2023

Spoiler alerts, they invite juniors and their parents and guardians, how they collaborate with campus stakeholders, who support the team's diversity efforts and how they leverage College Greenlight CBO Network to build affinity with future applicants. JA: Yeah, your program is definitely unique from many programs in those respects.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

There are things like active and collaborative learning, student faculty interactions, student effort, support for learners and so on. And so the area that decreased the most was active and collaborative learning. So 25% of the community college students in the State of Texas are dually enrolled high school students.

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EAB

MARCH 14, 2023

So we've seen how enrollment has definitely been impacted by the pandemic, right? So we have students that were under tremendous stress, tremendous trauma, tremendous loss within their families. I know we've collaborated a lot in our work. TZ: Mike, that's a great question. I think this has been really interesting.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

If you look up the book definition of intersectionality, you can identify the sociological framework suggested by Kimberl Crenshaw in the 1980s that explains how complex power structures of individuals and groups combine, or intersect, in patterns of discrimination and privilege across multiple factors such as gender, race, and class.

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