Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Challenge: Delivering timely support to a diverse and sizeable student population to foster improved retention and completion rates. The Strategy: Transition to a case management model that offers students proactive guidance and access to resources, and engages faculty to see a complete picture of their academic journey.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Challenge: Delivering timely support to a diverse and sizeable student population to foster improved retention and completion rates. The Strategy: Transition to a case management model that offers students proactive guidance and access to resources, and engages faculty to see a complete picture of their academic journey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

Model state legislation has been written — and if passed, would prohibit colleges from hiring DEI officers, spending money on DEI, and bar trainings that instruct staff/faculty to identify and fight against systemic racism. The SEL approach deeply and successfully embeds DEI into day-to-day campus operations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

Though on-campus child care centers have improved retention and graduation rates, the current regulatory environment has inflated operating costs, so fewer colleges are now offering this service. Faculty and staff should check in regularly with their students to see how they’re faring not just in school but in their lives.

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EAB

MARCH 24, 2023

Blogs What 70+ higher ed leaders are saying about staff recruitment and retention in today's competitive labor market Competition for talent is at an all-time high, forcing colleges and universities to rethink their historical approach to attracting and retaining talented staff on their campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

Professional development opportunities for high school teachers and college faculty can enhance the effectiveness of math instruction. Colleges and universities can also benefit greatly from sharing data regarding student performance and retention rates in STEM programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

They conducted listening sessions and focus groups with more than 250 Black students, faculty, and staff. Another recommendation was that each school develop retention and persistence strategies for Black students using a personalized student support model, along with enhanced advising. It is monumental,” said Dr. Shaun R.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 28, 2024

Ruth Reinhart, Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Support Services at ACC, we learn how the college is transforming its student success initiatives through strategic scheduling, engagement tracking, proactive advising, and instructional collaboration.

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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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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

Now in 2023, issues with academic readiness and social isolation are having meaningful impacts on retention and student success, including an entirely new phenomenon – “move-in melt.” Several partners have shared anecdotes of students arriving to campus, moving into dorms, and abruptly withdrawing upon re-entering more social settings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

After undergraduate programming demonstrated improved retention and graduation rates, Watford was able to recruit students to Virginia Tech. Faculty from the College of Engineering and College of Sciences play an essential role. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.”

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Timely MD

APRIL 18, 2024

College faculty and staff have the second highest rates, following at 35%. This stress diminishes teachers’ effectiveness, negatively affecting the quality of their instruction, classroom management, and relationships with students. This ultimately leads to higher teacher retention rates and improved overall school performance.

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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. Students now enjoy the ease of auto-generating their best-fit schedules based on courses they must take, breaks, and preferences like a specific campus, section, or faculty member.

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EAB

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Efficiency audits help identify gaps in instructional capacity versus student demand at the course, program, and department levels. Elevate the student experience to improve overall retention: Current students can also fall victim to the treacherous tuition cycle, leading to stopouts. Ready to find out more?

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EAB

JUNE 12, 2023

Specifically: “ Entities performing the functions of student recruiting and retention, the provision of software products and services involving Title IV administration activities, and the provision of educational content and instruction are defined as third-party servicers.” Are the Benefits of OPM Partnerships Worth the Risk?

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, 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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Timely MD

MARCH 4, 2024

In 2012, I had the opportunity to move into a newly created role serving as the Director of University Retention Programs, where I worked with the University President on institutional strategies related to student success and retention. There is a national focus on the value of higher education, including cost and outcomes.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 21, 2024

The Accelerator model provides tuition subsidies and microgrants for students to retake a high-priority lower division course in which they’ve previously earned a D, F, or Withdraw grade, also offering wraparound academic support to participants through supplemental instruction and academic coaching.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Here are five speculations, although this is not a comprehensive list: Retention will likely be put under considerable pressure. It is hard to anticipate the degree to which this will affect retention rates or the demand it will put on academic support infrastructure, but it seems likely to be significant.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Here are five speculations, although this is not a comprehensive list: Retention will likely be put under considerable pressure. It is hard to anticipate the degree to which this will affect retention rates or the demand it will put on academic support infrastructure, but it seems likely to be significant.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This trend will shape the composition of the students you serve while dictating the importance of retention to maintain enrollment. Online and flexible learners: Embracing the innovations that came from the forced move online during the pandemic and supporting faculty in helping these learners succeed.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Topics covered on her podcast include excellence in teaching, instructional design, open education, diversity and inclusion, productivity, creativity in teaching, educational technology, and blended learning. In addition to her podcast, Stackowiak shares resources for education professionals on her blog and through her workshops.

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EAB

OCTOBER 14, 2022

These scans typically address questions related to recruitment , retention, and revenue. Student Success and Retention. Faculty and Resources. Of course, you need the faculty and staff —including recruiters, advisors, marketers, and instructional designers among others—to deliver programs.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This trend will shape the composition of the students you serve while dictating the importance of retention to maintain enrollment. Online and flexible learners: Embracing the innovations that came from the forced move online during the pandemic and supporting faculty in helping these learners succeed.

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Timely MD

MAY 2, 2023

A review of research on trans students’ experiences in higher education conducted by the UCLA Williams Institute found that TGNC college students face discrimination and harassment, which can harm their academic performance and retention.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Students were also encouraged to join and engage with peers, staff and faculty via online message boards, hosted on the PeopleGrove platform by the Tri-Mentoring Program (Ryerson’s peer-to-peer mentoring program). As such, we knew which faculties the participants came from as well as their entry point into Ryerson. Math Ready.

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Timely MD

JULY 6, 2022

There is a struggle at many rural community colleges to fill faculty and staff positions, and many rural college leaders find that their concerns are not always reflected in the national conversation on higher education issues. Lack of public transportation. Limited access to affordable childcare.

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Blackboard Blog

MAY 20, 2020

Not only did teaching and learning have to quickly shift to an online environment, but support faculty and staff also had to undergo a transition to working remotely. Higher education institutions everywhere have been met with one of the most significant challenges to their operation because of COVID-19.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

In pushing back on the political DEI pushback, they should explain that DEIB—Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging—is about creating an institutional culture and climate that embraces the identities of all higher education constituencies : administrators, faculty, staff, students, and alumni.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

Multiple faculty and staff speakers told their stories of being targeted for their work. This kind of harassment – such as emails, social media, and death threats – is pervasive and can lead to censorship of faculty work, the panelists said. But students are not the only party that can be victim to harassment.

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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

APRIL 4, 2023

And so by that, they prefer the mode of online instruction, but they also wanna network as well. And so as opposed to just thinking about access, we're thinking about and helping our partners about retention and outcomes and really putting all of that in terms of a package together for students to be able to see at the start.

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EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

We call them online giants, EAB, these are the Southern New Hampshires of the world who are, mostly, providing all of the services that they need for marketing and recruitment to student services, to instructional design on their own. The instructional design. Like they are certain things they really wanna keep closer to the campus.

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EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

We call them online giants, EAB, these are the Southern New Hampshires of the world who are, mostly, providing all of the services that they need for marketing and recruitment to student services, to instructional design on their own. The instructional design. Like they are certain things they really wanna keep closer to the campus.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Tailoring and implementing the right mix of initiatives for each institution is crucial to improving retention and graduation rates. Northwest’s student success model relies on collaboration between faculty, advisors, and student support units, such as diversity and inclusion, the registrar’s office, and the athletics department.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

One important discovery they highlight is the fact that, when students are more civically engaged, they have a better academic persistence and retention. Dr. Terry Brown, vice president of academic innovation and transformation at AASCU.

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