Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

He noted that the founding documents of most colleges and universities list economic mobility as an important goal. A lot of the time, she said, it is viewed in terms of students moving away from their home communities, but in reality, a lot of students feel driven to stay.

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Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Today’s most influential leaders recognize that student success goes beyond traditional measures like retention and graduation rates. A study of Civitas Learning partner institutions reinforces this wisdom, revealing that 39% of students experience a change in their likelihood to persist within a single term.

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Kristin Clark, Chancellor, West Hills Community College District We sat down with Dr. Kristin Clark, Chancellor at West Hills Community College District, for advice on re-energizing teams around technologies to maximize the impact of student success strategies. Document everything. Remember the “WHY”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Curriculum Alongside wraparound services and culturally competent faculty and staff, what’s taught in the classroom is also vital to bolstering student success, Chang says. In particular, courses wherein the students can “see themselves” and learn more about their communities are potent in making a difference, he says.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Transparent and Accessible Financial Aid Process: Clear Communication: Provide families with clear and concise information about the financial aid process, including deadlines, required documentation, and eligibility criteria. Simplified Application: Streamline the financial aid application process to minimize the burden on families.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 13, 2023

Student success has always been a primary goal of higher education institutions. With unprecedented demographic and social changes, colleges and universities now face even more pressure to develop student success models that help students thrive academically and help institutions thrive financially.

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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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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 5, 2025

Discussions on fostering diversity, equity, and belonging emphasized the importance of inclusive school communities and the impact of policy decisions on student success. Our new partnership between TaxStatus and SSS makes the financial aid process smoother and more reliable for schools.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 23, 2024

While this strategy appears to be a good way to ensure students stay on track to graduate, it has decreased student engagement. When institutions empower students to take ownership of their planning, with advisors available for guidance, student success significantly increases.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Curriculum Alongside wraparound services and culturally competent faculty and staff, what’s taught in the classroom is also vital to bolstering student success, Chang says. In particular, courses wherein the students can “see themselves” and learn more about their communities are potent in making a difference, he says.

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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

APRIL 20, 2023

The panel explored what's possible with the technology and shared success stories. Nasim, built a custom SMS messaging tool to meet specific institutional needs: "We developed a technology called Climatext, which allowed us to prompt our students with a particular question, and we would evaluate that data.

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Timely MD

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Effective, accessible, and equitable mental health care remains essential to student success. Next steps After the conversation, the provider documents the care plan and makes follow-up notes for the patient, ensuring continuity and personalized care for future sessions. So, what’s the result of a 30-minute counseling session?

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 26, 2024

Guided by a mission centered on student success—”every student, every day”—Northwest is committed to supporting the diverse goals of its 9,664 enrolled students on their academic journey. I can focus more on what will happen in the future than just focusing on a given semester.

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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. How to overcome this barrier: documentation.

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EAB

AUGUST 28, 2023

These phrases show up so often in strategic plans because the plan writers are more focused on producing a document that no one will object to rather than proposing an actual strategy. I often ask, how will you prioritize your limited resources to have a real impact in those areas that are most urgent or important for your community?

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As we approach our ten-year anniversary of accelerating student success innovation across higher education to drive social and economic mobility nationwide, I am grateful and humbled that this movement has expanded and evolved to inspire so many institutions and student success leaders beyond the UIA.

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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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EAB

MAY 22, 2023

Email scheduling : Select the email frequency and recipients for dashboard delivery via PDF or Excel documents. The Success and Retention Opportunities Accelerator empowers users with student success analytics to improve student success outcomes through interventions, policy changes, and other initiatives.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As we approach our ten-year anniversary of accelerating student success innovation across higher education to drive social and economic mobility nationwide, I am grateful and humbled that this movement has expanded and evolved to inspire so many institutions and student success leaders beyond the UIA.

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EAB

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The shelf life of the resulting documents shortens with every academic term. Strategic plans often hinge on broad topics or operational categories like student success, sustainability, or diversity, and on predictable approaches to self-improvement within these categories. Plans tend to be very high-level.

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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.

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Scholarship America

AUGUST 11, 2023

Arleen was the only one in her household who understood English, so she ended up translating documents for her parents and helping her siblings with their English homework. Arleen Alcaraz-Cano is the eldest daughter of Mexican immigrants and faced unimaginable challenges as a teenager. The pandemic was another devastating hit.

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Student Research Foundation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

If you teach first-generation students who are bound for college – or if you are a first-generation student or the parent of one – you will want to read Bridging the Gap: How can emerging technology chart pathways to completion for first-generation students?, New Report Suggests New Ways to Use Data to Build Student Success.

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Believe in Students

APRIL 1, 2024

We also released a series of reports documenting the impact of our emergency aid distribution over the last three years, including one that showed that more than 90% of students who received emergency grants were able to persist to the next semester of school.

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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. It also saves advisors valuable time that they previously spent tracking down information and figuring out the right course of action.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

She said she spent 15 years writing her book “The Warmth of Other Suns,” documenting stories about the 20th-century migration of 6 million Black Americans away from the Jim Crow South. “My mission,” she said, “has been to use the power of language and narrative to change the way we see ourselves and our country.”

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EAB

AUGUST 1, 2023

A great graduate enrollment management plan is a living document reviewed on a regular basis. Regardless, they should be cross-functional and made up of individuals from across the institution who are both stakeholders and decision-makers in graduate enrollment and graduate student success.

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COE

JANUARY 7, 2024

empower showcased the application online, highlighting mandatory fields and allowing document uploads. Kent : I describe empower as a robust platform that covers everything you need, from online forms to documentation. It handles applications and secondary documentation seamlessly.

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NACAC's Admitted

AUGUST 10, 2023

EqRC will address the underpinnings and implications of test-optional admission, focusing on the student perspective and experience, as well as other admission practices as they intersect with the experiences of historically excluded students.

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Scholarship America

JANUARY 16, 2023

I’m a scribe, documenting what happens at appointments and summarizing patient histories for a physician in Indiana,” Sara said. Observing patient/physician interactions was inspiring and by the time Sara was a high school sophomore, she was determined to go into medical school.

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EAB

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Mental health challenges among Gen Z students have been well documented. As those students matriculate into our graduate and adult education programs, we will need resources in place to support them. Marketers will need to understand mental health drivers and message that in student outreach.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

What data does the student success department need to reach the students who would benefit most from their help? Action Items Consider the dictionary a living document While some terms are likely to be defined the same way indefinitely, other terms change as needs and usage evolves.

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EAB

AUGUST 7, 2023

Student Experience and Well-Being Most academic leaders think of advising, academics, or student affairs when thinking about student success, and it is critical to make these supports more streamlined, accessible, and student-centric.

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EAB

DECEMBER 2, 2022

At many community colleges, prospective students must take several tedious steps to complete the enrollment process. For example, students may be asked to track down official high school transcripts, complete 3-4 hours’ worth of placement testing, or upload sensitive documents.

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EAB

JUNE 27, 2023

Improving health outcomes: As the Hispanic population in the US grows, there’s an even greater need to increase the number of Hispanic health care workers who can overcome the language and cultural barriers to best care for these patients.

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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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