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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It It was a matter in many cases of asking the students, ‘What do you need?’” Watford says. For a lot of them, it comes down to a sense of community.” After completing his Ph.D.

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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. Engagement tracking ACC’s data confirms that students who engage with their advisors are more likely to persist and graduate.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The ability to easily create a group of students and have it dynamically change depending on factors like student GPA and alert activity is a huge support when managing caseloads ranging from 275 to 400 students. The result is a valuable student success resource used by faculty and staff. in Spring 2021 to 74.9%

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 11, 2023

The vision of the Civitas Learning Student Impact Platform is to drive equitable, optimal student outcomes through better decision-making and collaborative student support systems. Have questions or want to discuss how we can support your work to improve student success?

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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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The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 21, 2024

Innovation in Action: Overview of the UIA’s Current Scale Projects Elana Tue, 05/21/2024 - 15:52 Black Student Success Initiative Student Success University Culture For ten years, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) has aspired to be an effective force for change.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Once students enroll and begin classes, an institution’s work is far from over. Effective communication, guidance, and resources are foundational to an effective student success strategy. Every effort matters to keep students enrolled and persisting to graduation. Read the Blog 2.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In 2023, the UIA launched its University Innovation Lab (UI Lab), an online hub and practitioner community that helps student success professionals innovate to improve outcomes for all students. Why We Need the UI Lab The UI Lab is for campus leaders and practitioners who are trying to move the needle on student success.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

“From college to careers – this is a critical area for the Pell Institute, and we look forward to contributing to national discussions about equitable career pathways starting with TRIO programs in collaboration with our partners at Loyola University Chicago and Career Launch,” said Terry Vaughan III, Vice President of Research and Director of the (..)

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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. By 2027, the plan aimed to boost Full-Time Enrollment by 250 students and elevate the institutional retention rate by 5%, reaching a minimum of 57.5%.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 23, 2024

Identifying Bottleneck Courses to Deliver Precise Academic Support Visibility into the impact individual courses have on persistence and graduation empowers provosts, academic deans, advising teams, and faculty members to identify and address barriers to student success in a clear, purposeful way.

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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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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The ability to easily create a group of students and have it dynamically change depending on factors like student GPA and alert activity is a huge support when managing caseloads ranging from 275 to 400 students. The result is a valuable student success resource used by faculty and staff. in Spring 2021 to 74.9%

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Faculty Community college Case manager Advising 52

EAB

AUGUST 31, 2023

Most Training Offerings Don’t Focus on Leadership Competencies Problem: Many district-led principal development offerings overemphasize school-specific or education-focused topics, like instructional expertise, rather than equipping principals with essential leadership skills.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

staff proximity, access) about redesigns Workflow Simplified processes (e.g., staff proximity, access) about redesigns Workflow Simplified processes (e.g.,

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The Advisor That Cares

JUNE 11, 2023

The course helps students understand university policies and procedures, including support information like success services. Advising falls within both enrollment management and student success arenas. How does it fit into a program?

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EAB

JANUARY 1, 2024

Regularly assess portfolio health using student, competitor, and labor market data The first step to a successful portfolio assessment is making sure your team is analyzing the right data. For many institutions, two to three years is about when you should expect to see some changes in enrollment, student success, or other metrics.

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The Advisor That Cares

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Results open the door for collaboration opportunities that improve, clarify and streamline online resources for various readers, levels, and delivery modes and preferences. Satisfaction surveys for advisors to express bottlenecks and pinch-points described by students. Care about students. Innovation = Care. Put simply, care.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more. Many tackled improving student success, retention, and equity at their institutions, while others focused on budget models and streamlining administrative processes.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 23, 2023

An autogenerated, complete list of all feasible schedules that meet their criteria means students can easily view and choose the optimal schedule for their busy lives. This works well for virtual advising appointments and increases student agency in schedule-building. LEARN MORE Ready to proactively support your students?

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 23, 2023

An autogenerated, complete list of all feasible schedules that meet their criteria means students can easily view and choose the optimal schedule for their busy lives. This works well for virtual advising appointments and increases student agency in schedule-building. LEARN MORE Ready to proactively support your students?

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

For every report, schools must review instructions, compile the data, connect the dots from disparate systems, and create a cogent narrative. For example, they are planning to integrate their student success data (Starfish) into Edify and stand up an underutilized retention function to drive their student success strategy forward.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 4, 2023

There are a thousand student success strategies. No technology is ever going to be successful if you're not doing the why and the how properly, which is focusing on the goal and doing the work, day in and day out." And universities aren't searching for the what. Are we achieving the goals and working together effectively?

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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. Are you receiving just the general support you need, non-academic wise that you need to be successful?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens. In this chapter, best practices focused on the areas of advising, engagement, instruction, and programing will be discussed.

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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

The early warning signs showed up most prominently in traditionally marginalized groups, with those students experiencing food and housing insecurity at higher rates than their peers – requiring more support to not only persist in their programs but also to live. And why is AI so Far Down the List?

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 24, 2023

Nothing was more instructive than watching five years of those. You test, try, tune, collaborate, pull ideas together, and work towards achieving those mission and vision elements. I was on the early board of trustees of Western Governors University and was a part of the group that helped envision what that could be. I love that frame.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Bennett As a team, we are a recent doctoral graduate, now administrator, and a faculty member, formerly a mentor and now colleague, to the first author; we have collaborated via mentorship, co-instruction, and co-research. Many institutions are returning to in-person or maintaining high-flex instruction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

And how do they inform the ways I navigate campus culture and focus on student success? First, I believe a college presidents leadership success can be measured based on the impact that a leader has on the lives of the people they serve. As college president, my primary responsibility is to put the needs of students first.

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