Blackboard Blog

MAY 20, 2020

Now we’re sharing the steps we took as Blackboard Student Services to prepare to support our staff and partners immediately and plans to continue support in the longer term. Blackboard Student Services. Keeping Leadership Informed.

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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. In this step, leadership teams facilitate cross-functional collaboration by establishing alignment around a shared definition of student success.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

In each session, the fellows gained depth in new topics or terrains, developed leadership skills, and built a network with peers from institutions across the country. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more. All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

While loan payments will continue to be stalled for students actively enrolled at your institution, there are a number of ways they could negatively impact your students—and your retention rates— today. These concerns could impact retention as current students think critically about taking on more debt.

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Blackboard Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Lisa Hansen is the Director of OneStop Student Support and Retention Services at Blackboard and works collaboratively with partner institutions to increase student satisfaction and persistence through 24/7 Virtual Student Engagement and proactive outreach and retention support.

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Timely MD

MAY 1, 2023

The combination of this funding allocation and a partnership with The Foundation for California Community Colleges (FoundationCCC) and the CollegeBuys group purchasing division means that one-third of California’s Community College students have equitable access to on-demand care anytime, anywhere.

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Timely MD

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Institutions now grapple with the challenge of how to sustain these critical services post-HEERF. These stories offer insight into overcoming various challenges to secure ongoing funding for equitable mental health resources for their students. It came from student services aware of the need after the pandemic.”

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EAB

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The pain of losing students is worse than the temporary pain of making a change to better serve those students.” Dr. Tiffany Ray-Patterson VP of Student Services, Germanna Community College [link] Learn More Check out this podcast to learn more about Germanna's streamlined onboarding approach for workforce and for-credit students.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Moderator Solome Tibebu, Founder and Host of the Behavioral Health Tech conference, was joined by Dr. Davida Haywood, Senior Vice President of Student Affairs at Johnson C. Providing culturally sensitive care Underrepresented students often face mental health disparities due to their identities.

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EAB

MAY 30, 2023

Streamline Onboarding: At Pikes Peak Community College, in 2016 only 20 percent of students were matriculating directly from high school, and 60 percent of applicants never enrolled. Student responses revealed numerous communication breakdowns, including long turnaround times, unclear messaging, and inflexible practices.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Chapter 14: Ford, J.R.

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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. CH: There's also a situation where it's like, you know, I got an OPM relationship.

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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. CH: There's also a situation where it's like, you know, I got an OPM relationship.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Every effort matters to keep students enrolled and persisting to graduation. Tailoring and implementing the right mix of initiatives for each institution is crucial to improving retention and graduation rates. Here are five elements Civitas Learning partner institutions use to improve student outcomes: 1.

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