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Fill Graduation Gaps, Transform Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Higher education is one of the most powerful assets our state has to uplift families, support businesses, and create prosperity. Graduates of higher education have increased volunteerism, improved health outcomes, and lower incarceration rates. Historically, higher education has underserved many Kansans.

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since 2015, Stout has served as president and CEO of Achieving the Dream (ATD), a network of over 300 community colleges, with the goal of being accessible hubs of learning, credentialing and economic mobility that eliminate inequities in educational and workforce outcomes. These reforms can be broad-based.

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Lessons Learned from Student Success Redesign

Civitas Learning

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Youtube Rethinking strategies can be challenging, but with the many changes we see in higher education post-Covid, redesigning systems could be the key to student success. 19:06] – These initiatives don’t only help enrollment but also retention. [22:06]

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Community Colleges’ Essential Role in Workforce Development

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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. These educational institutions and technical colleges offer affordable and accessible education, which is often tailored to meet the needs of the local job market.

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The 4 stages of an integrated lifecycle approach for community college student success

EAB

While this is worth celebrating, it’s also important to look at short-term retention rates to understand who is leaving community colleges early on. Even though completion rates have improved, one-year retention rates have remained relatively flat for the past decade , with a 51.3% for students starting in fall 2020.

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SUNY Broome Addresses Enrollment Declines with Data-Informed Approaches

Civitas Learning

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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New Student Engagement Data Reveals Surprises

EAB

They also offer advice to community college leaders on ways to make measurable improvements in student retention and enrollment. On today's episode, leaders from the Center for Community College Student Engagement point to new studies that highlight important, but potentially overlooked factors that can boost student retention.