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From Pressure to Possibility: Dr. Nicholas Zeppos on Navigating Higher Ed’s Crossroads

Civitas Learning

At a pivotal moment in 2008, he announced that no Vanderbilt undergraduate would graduate with debt, launching a bold financial aid effort that raised $700 million and changed the game for access and completion.

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Innovating to Close Equity Gaps: The National Institute for Student Success

The University Innovation Alliance

Innovating to Close Equity Gaps: The National Institute for Student Success. Student Success. These respected campus leaders are skilled in change management, and we look to them for spearheading and scaling student success initiatives at our member institutions. How to Improve Student Outcomes.

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Data and Student Success in Higher Ed

The University Innovation Alliance

The Accelerator Model as an Innovation for Student Success First-year students sometimes have difficulties adjusting to college’s academic demands, and Dr. Renick’s team noted that freshmen struggled even more during the pandemic. Addressing this problem was the genesis of the accelerator model.

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Proactive Student Success Culture Improves Outcomes for All at the University of Cincinnati

Civitas Learning

In 2019, its president rolled out the Bearcat Promise , a pledge that all students will leave the university with a degree in one hand and a career plan in the other. Through a consistent focus on student success that embraces its identity as an urban public research university, UC has achieved remarkable outcomes, including: a 15.8%

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From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs

COE

Ascendium Education Group is committed to making education and training beyond high school a reality for more people.

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Acting in the Best Interest of the Institution

The University Innovation Alliance

Alan Sugg was an incredibly effective leader, very kind, very engaging, and everything came back to student success. Number two, I’d served on that campus from 2008 until 2011 and loved it dearly. He gave me my first opportunity when I probably didn't deserve it, but he believed in what was possible.

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Partnership and Policy for Academic Advising

The University Innovation Alliance

Student Success. Although he returned to the private sector after his tenure in the Obama Administration, Secretary Duncan generously shared his views on the need for institutions to support student success, the need for government to encourage institutions in this effort, and the urgency for moving ahead with these initiatives.