Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

academic advisors, residence life staff, admissions coordinators, counselors, and cultural center staff) and their interactions and interventions significantly influence students' experiences and success. grade point average (GPA), retention rates, and persistence rates) and socio-emotional concerns (e.g., These administrators (e.g.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

However, to move beyond a slogan, community college leaders need to examine how they are creating bridges of empathy (Yelich Biniecki & Berg, 2000) and pathways for success (Kirchner & Yelich Biniecki, 2019) to serve active duty and veteran service members and their families. Dr. Susan M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For instance, ‘walking’ students had a 29% retention rate and a 7% rate of completion. But student who were even just one tier up, ‘speed-walking,’ saw retention rates jump to 53% and likelihood of completing to 26%. Most students who are ‘walking’ (71%) don’t even continue past their first year in college, according to the report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In the same way, colleges and universities can create environments that attract top talent and facilitate their growth. Retention strategies like mentorship programs, ongoing training, and opportunities for advancement can make a significant difference in keeping valuable employees engaged and motivated.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Civitas Learning’s Texas Leadership Workshop recently brought together leaders from ten different institutions across Texas and beyond to discuss student success strategies for higher education. Student Success is more than improving graduation rates.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

In Civitas Learning’s most recent Student Success Impact Report , we examined a broad range of student success initiatives across 48 institutions. We discovered the key steps leaders and institutions are taking to strategically –and sometimes dramatically– improve their retention rates. PP positive impact. PP positive impact.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In her previous role as the founding dean of the College of Health Sciences and Human Services at CSU Monterey Bay, she was instrumental in supporting, facilitating and developing a number of new healthcare related programs.” Together, we are ensuring an educated, well trained workforce dedicated to our mutual success.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The IIT-Wright Engineering Program is an open-ended multi-year agreement that reflects the commitment of both institutions to support the successful transfer of community college students to complete four-year degrees in STEM and related fields. One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. To have an institutional-wide approach to student success. Since 2018, she has been coaching Harford toward improving success measures. For 41 years, Dr. Karen A.

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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. In higher education, successful implementation often means rethinking long-standing processes, habits, and team dynamics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The mentorship program is meant to provide incoming students the settings and opportunities to prepare themselves for academic careers, all the while facilitating connection among one another. Mental Health TEAS will bring aboard an additional full-time clinical therapist as well to help boost Asian American student retention and completion.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2023

Rindy and his colleagues and the five pillars they focus on throughout a student’s higher education journey, they can deliver on the promise of student success. 5:22] – One part of the strategic plan is the promise that students will be successful and how they make sure they can be. [6:46]

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EAB

JANUARY 10, 2023

Lessons Learned from a Student Retention Revamp at Syracuse. Syracuse University’s Kal Srinivas joins EAB’s Andrina Musser to talk about how the technology, people, and processes changed at Syracuse to boost student retention efforts. EAB · Lessons Learned from a Student Retention Revamp at Syracuse. Episode 133. Transcript.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

In Civitas Learning’s most recent Student Success Impact Report , we examined a broad range of student success initiatives across 48 institutions. We discovered the key steps leaders and institutions are taking to strategically –and sometimes dramatically– improve their retention rates. PP positive impact. PP positive impact.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Strategy: Empower success teams to use institution-specific analytics and insights to uncover barriers faster and connect students to the most beneficial support. And collaboration with other stakeholders remained difficult due to workflow inefficiencies and a lack of supportive tools to facilitate coordinated student care.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

Through its myriad membership services, the Council works with colleges, universities, and agencies that host federal TRIO programs that help more than 800,000 low-income students and students with disabilities each year receive college access and retention services. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, we fund initiatives across the U.S.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We’ve been hard at work developing a new course demand analytics solution, refining the academic planning experience for students and advisors, and elevating the visibility we provide advising and student success teams. This approach can significantly impact student retention, resulting in 2-5% uplifts in persistence.

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EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What the mental health crisis means for student success leaders. The pandemic ripple effects on student success will last for years, including the long-term impact on student mental health. Student well-being could be the top threat to student success. whitepaper: long-term impacts of the pandemic on success.

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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

APRIL 4, 2024

The Challenge: Facing declining retention and cumbersome scheduling, JAX State needed to address barriers to enrollment. The Strategy: Implement a seamless registration experience that facilitates student persistence to the next term, providing advisors additional time and opportunities to connect with students.

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EAB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What we learned about the future of student success from 1,200 success leaders. CONNECTED is my favorite time of year in the Student Success Collaborative , and this year did not disappoint! Here are my 3 biggest takeaways from CONNECTED22: The pandemic is still affecting student success in critical ways.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The 4 most common barriers to higher ed data and analytics success. I recently facilitated a survey of higher ed leaders to understand their data and analytics goals and pain points. In each of those cases, over 9 in 10 respondents saw data and analytics as important to finding success. Read the report.

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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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Civitas Learning

APRIL 23, 2024

Moreover, barriers to retention, such as classes not offered in a certain term or conflicting courses, can lead students to under-enroll in courses or enroll in courses they don’t need to complete their degree. Success in college extends beyond grades and demands a unified effort from the institution.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 8, 2023

The widely accepted belief that student success is a responsibility shared by the entire campus, rather than just traditional student services, is challenging to implement. Silos persist, differing definitions of student success hinder collaboration, and institutions struggle to establish a consistent and centralized knowledge base.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Strategy: Putting actionable insights at the fingertips of student success teams allowing them to deliver coordinated, proactive support to students throughout their academic journey. Advising staff relied on outdated data to generate piecemeal reports that only captured a small part of each student’s academic situation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The mentorship program is meant to provide incoming students the settings and opportunities to prepare themselves for academic careers, all the while facilitating connection among one another. Mental Health TEAS will bring aboard an additional full-time clinical therapist as well to help boost Asian American student retention and completion.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Creating a Customized Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Dashboard Elmira College's partnership with Edify About Elmira College is a private college with a total enrollment of 673 students, a 76% retention rate, and a 56% six-year graduation rate. Exacerbating the problem, Elmira saw several key IT staff resign in 2021.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Strategy: Empower success teams to use institution-specific analytics and insights to uncover barriers faster and connect students to the most beneficial support. And collaboration with other stakeholders remained difficult due to workflow inefficiencies and a lack of supportive tools to facilitate coordinated student care.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 23, 2024

Siloed academic departments and inaccessible data create roadblocks when analyzing course success and determining where to make adjustments. Post University’s success underscores the importance of continuously monitoring leading success indicators and the power of providing tailored academic support.

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EAB

JANUARY 13, 2023

Do you offer your students digitally facilitated interactions to help them find their place on campus with options like student clubs, athletic teams, and peer mentorships? Do you offer tailored experiences (in person and digitally) to support career exploration, skill development, and preparation for success in the workplace post-completion?

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

My team has worked with an increasing number of institutions that are seeking to re-center their student success strategies around a more holistic definition of the student experience. Read on for five key insights and recommendations to ensure Gen P’s success in higher education.

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

Edify serves as a data hub for all of the systems that higher ed already uses, from enrollment and fundraising CRMs to student success platforms. First, it improves retention by giving students the specific form of support they are most likely to benefit from. What might your institution do with all of that extra staff time?

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In just two months, while still performing their regular job functions in the new online environment, the Get Ryerson Ready team researched, developed, designed, and launched a robust, innovative, multi-disciplinary, and award-winning transition curriculum to support the success and well-being of the incoming class of 2020. The Context.

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Blackboard Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Make sure you define student success and satisfaction at your institutions so you can measure those areas, such call and email response times and line reductions. With preparedness and efficiency under your belt, your team will be able to make an even bigger difference by taking on new projects to help with student support and success.

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EAB

APRIL 7, 2023

Case Study Longwood University sought to improve student retention using predictive models. getting the right class size, improving retention rates) it can be difficult to generate momentum for any non-essential new initiative. Non-essential” is an important qualifier—resistance from peers along the lines of “Why do more?”

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EAB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Read on to see three strategies that have made Carleton successful. Facilitate the work of the team. . Teacher Recruitment and Retention. These strategies helped IT backfill half of FY22’s eight vacancies with BIPOC candidates. Carleton College’s IT department has 40 FTEs.) stands for Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

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