Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

The Challenge: Deliver on the mission to provide holistic services that support the success of every student every day. The Strategy: Adopt an integrated and holistic student success management model and implement a unified student success platform to make personalized support feasible at scale.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

When Petty responded, “But you don’t know who I am,” the staff member responded, “I do, you are a student here!” Many community college students have Petty’s experience. Potential students are often treated as a number, not a person. Dr. Brad C. They are afraid to go to college, even before the first day.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

The money will go towards funding efforts to improve enrollment and retention at tribal colleges and universities (TCUs). The Lilly grant will allow the College Fund to expand “Culture at the Heart: An Indigenous Approach to Enrollment and Retention,” a pilot program that had funded efforts at five TCUs to attract and keep students.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

Whether learning remotely, on-campus, or as a hybrid, students begin their higher education journey to build their future. But what makes some students persist to graduation and others not? We discovered the key steps leaders and institutions are taking to strategically –and sometimes dramatically– improve their retention rates.

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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. However, student feedback revealed redundancy in conversations and information sharing between advisors and coaches.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. Black student enrollment, for example, went up 2.3% in Hispanic enrollment. “We

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 3, 2025

SUMMARY : Adaptable analytics empowers higher education leaders with real-time, actionable insights that evolve with changing circumstances, enabling smarter decisions, more effective planning, and stronger team collaboration to proactively support student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Permitting faculty and staff to rotate in-person work or to only come in on certain days might help with retention. Panelists were also asked about more granular solutions.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. EAB’s Tara Zirkel is joined by Pueblo Community College VP of Student Success, Dr. Heather Speed, to examine changes Pueblo made to boost enrollment heading into the fall semester. EAB · How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. Episode 126.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 14, 2024

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Youtube Music | Full Transcript Student success remains a top priority in higher education, but many institutions face challenges in implementing strategic plans that engage both students and staff. Allison Hoffmann, Assistant Vice President of Admissions and Student Success at Northwest.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Now, a new study from the Community College Research Center at Columbia University has shown that summer Pell has had meaningful benefits, improving retention, attainment, and even earnings up to nine years after college entry for students who received it. Liu found clear advantages for the students who got summer money.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 14, 2024

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Youtube Music | Full Transcript Student success remains a top priority in higher education, but many institutions face challenges in implementing strategic plans that engage both students and staff. Allison Hoffman, Assistant Vice President of Admissions and Student Success at Northwest.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Higher education is continually evolving, and 2024 has presented new opportunities for institutions to better address students’ changing needs. Traditional metrics, such as retention and graduation rates, don’t fully capture whether students succeed during college. How are they doing this?

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Good Tutors Finder

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

How a Tutor Can Help a Student With Dyslexia: Empowering Success Through Specialized Support Dyslexia affects millions of students worldwide, influencing how they process language and making tasks such as reading, spelling, and writing more challenging. Get Started Why Tutoring is Essential for Students With Dyslexia 1.

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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. The questions the students asked, she says, helped her to understand the power of community colleges. Where were the students coming from? For 41 years, Dr. Karen A.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The additions will help students get faster and more accurate answers to common questions through a conversational AI knowledge bot, help advisors and other support staff write more effective student communications, and give administrators better tools to analyze institutional student success efforts.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

When Dr. Devorah Lieberman became president of University of La Verne in 2011, a private institution of approximately 8,000 students about 35 miles east of Los Angeles, she was in many ways seeing life come full circle. University of La Verne President Dr. Devorah Lieberman is shown with graduating students in 2013.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Alexander oversees the legacy of the Academic Advancement Program (AAP) at UCLA, one of the longest running academic support programs for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students. During that time, she saw his hands-on approach with staff and students. “If Coming from such a background drives him. “I

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

Whether learning remotely, on-campus, or as a hybrid, students begin their higher education journey to build their future. But what makes some students persist to graduation and others not? We discovered the key steps leaders and institutions are taking to strategically –and sometimes dramatically– improve their retention rates.

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Thrive Alliance Group

MAY 10, 2022

Teacher retention is becoming a critical challenge for schools across the country, as a growing number of teachers are overburdened and burned out. This “great resignation” puts the education of an entire generation of students at risk. Yet there is a way to improve teacher retention by helping teachers recover from the past two years.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 26, 2024

The Strategy: Implement an end-to-end planning, scheduling, and registration system to make it easy for students to receive guidance and find the classes they need to complete their degree. Advisors used various tactics to help students plan, from spreadsheets to handwritten worksheets but lacked a centralized system for communication.

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Thrive Alliance Group

MAY 19, 2022

Teacher retention is becoming a critical challenge for schools across the country, as a growing number of teachers are overburdened and burned out. This “great resignation” puts the education of an entire generation of students at risk. Yet there is a way to improve teacher retention by helping teachers recover from the past two years.

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Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

MARCH 3, 2025

in the Ballroom East in Plaster Student Union. The recipients of this award have demonstrated excellent advising to Missouri State students. Advisors are nominated by students, faculty, and staff. Rhonda Stanton, Azaria Hogans, and Karmen Brewer will be recognized as the recipients of the 2025 Curtis P.

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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.

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

These six trends will have long-term impacts on how community colleges interact with students and getting ahead of them now will position you for success in the future. 4% enrollment , and these gains were driven completely by the recovery of dual-enrolled high school students (+11.5%) and 18- to 20-year-old students (+1.4%).

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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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Civitas Learning

APRIL 23, 2024

A Civitas Learning analysis found that one in five students finishes 75% of their degree before hitting pause. The story behind this unfortunate statistic often boils down to students not knowing which classes they need, where to get help, and what steps lie ahead to get to the finish line.

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Find out how making it easy to build a conflict-free schedule improves persistence and increases continuing student enrollment. The post Boost Enrollment with Conflict-free Scheduling appeared first on Civitas Learning.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Challenge: A preliminary analysis of early alert trends revealed that students were not performing well in Lakeland’s mandatory First Year Experience course. They discovered that students received many early alerts for poor performance in this course designed to support them. What they learned from their analysis was surprising.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Blogs Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference The academic advising profession faces shrinking budgets, expanding student and administration expectations, and increasing turnover—all of which make it harder for institutions to think strategically about advising structure and staffing to support student success.

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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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Timely MD

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Community colleges are vital in providing accessible higher education opportunities to diverse student populations in rural, suburban, and urban communities alike. However, community college students often face unique challenges, such as juggling work, family, and academics, which can take a toll on their mental health.

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Thrive Alliance Group

MAY 16, 2023

But a week of gestures isn’t enough to help you build the confidence and competence of your staff, let alone solve the growing problem of teacher retention. And that hurts both their performance and their relationships with students. That helps teachers better serve their students. Grow satisfaction and teacher retention.

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EAB

AUGUST 21, 2023

Blogs How to empower student-parents in higher education A conversation with Generation Hope My mom had me at 17, and like many teen parents, had to put her education on hold to care for our family. Student-Parents Aren’t a Niche Population “I started college when my daughter was just under three months old.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This list celebrates the amazing work our partners do each day to help their students thrive. Below, explore popular topics like using student success analytics to manage capacity constraints and advance equity or building coordinated student success networks. Coordinated Student Success Networks.

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