Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Since joining ATD, Bellevue College has seen increased markers of student success and retention. Their dedication to using data-informed approaches to create meaningful opportunities for students and their communities serves as a powerful example for all institutions of higher education."

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Insights help teams create tailored support plans, but many institutions find it difficult to access quality data. If the information is inaccurate, it can mean missed chances to help struggling students and lead to unnecessary spending on policies and programs that don’t work. So, how can schools access clean, usable data?

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Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Today’s most influential leaders recognize that student success goes beyond traditional measures like retention and graduation rates. Research from the Brookings Institution on college access and completion interventions shows that comprehensive programs can drive meaningful improvements in student success.

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Student Privacy Compass

APRIL 29, 2025

Data Minimization Principles: about 12 states stress the importance of avoiding inputting PII (Personally Identifiable Information) into AI systems. These included details such as language for contractual requirements with AI vendors, data handling protocols, training programs, and clear policies on data collection, retention, and security.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2025

For instance, research shows that collaborative testing not only improves scores and reduces anxiety, but also supports long-term retention and peer learning (see Cortright et al., So how do we keep teaching as art, informed by science? 2003 ; Bloom, 2009 ). In other words, assessments that are equitable are also effective.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

But sometimes, the root issue is closer to home students cant access the courses they need to stay on track to progress toward their degree. But when information is spread across multiple platforms, it slows them down and risks missing the students who need help most.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 3, 2025

In higher education, making timely, data-informed decisions to support students isn’t easy. The information you need is often scattered across systems, buried in static reports, or hard to translate into action. In contrast, adaptable analytics offers real-time insights tailored to an institution’s specific needs.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 10, 2025

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Youtube Music | Full Transcript For many institutions, improving persistence and retention rates feels like an uphill battle, but Greenville Technical College (GTC) is proving what’s possible when data meets execution. When messages are targeted and timely, engagement follows.

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Student Privacy Compass

JULY 23, 2024

Some platforms encourage or enable the use of student text messaging or personal social media accounts for promotion, heightening the risk of disclosing sensitive information such as phone numbers or private profiles. Digital campaigns often collect and share student images, names, grade levels, and performance metrics to personalize appeals.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 24, 2025

By combining this type of barrier-removal with early alerts, personalized outreach, and centralized support, UVU has seen a measurable 3 percentage point bump in retention. A System That Scales with Empathy The team uses Civitas Learning’s early alerts, accessible in Canvas, to proactively reach out when faculty raise concerns. “We

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

But even the most capable students can struggle if they don’t have access to basic resources like quiet study spaces, reliable Wi-Fi, group meeting areas, and academic support services. Access to physical spaces like libraries and technology hubs also play a critical role.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

By leveraging historical financial aid and student data, schools can make more informed, equitable, and strategic financial aid decisions that align with their mission and long-term sustainability. Schools can ascertain: Aid Impact on Retention Do students who receive aid remain at the school longer?

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 13, 2025

Yet many institutions struggle to adopt a broader approach to student impact due to systemic barriers, such as departmental silos and limited access to actionable insights. With access to predictive insights across multiple outcomes, institutions can customize the framework to focus on what aligns with their mission and goals.

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College Planners of America

JULY 25, 2025

Among first-generation college students and those in underrepresented groups, exam-takers earning a CLEP score of 50 or higher have significantly higher retention and graduation rates than their classmates. See the Board’s CLEP College Credit Policy Search site for further information. Single exam guides cost $14.

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Good Tutors Finder

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

They have a thorough understanding of how the dyslexic brain processes information. Multisensory Approaches Reading and spelling can become more accessible and less intimidating when presented via multiple sensory channels, such as sight, sound, and touch. Tutors who specialize in dyslexia are not just reading specialists.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Higher education institutions that bring together previously disjointed approaches to student care gain greater clarity and drive measurable improvements in retention, completion rates, career readiness, and the overall student experience. Discover: Common challenges that institutions face in aligning care.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 4, 2025

In todays ever-evolving enrollment landscape, financial aid professionals are being asked to do more with lessprovide equitable access, protect institutional integrity, streamline complex processes, and support families in real time. Youll have access to all IRS data, Benson explained. Its a tall order. Its fully transparent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This accessibility and understanding of leaders demanding schedules set TM 2 apart from the others. His experience as chief of staff at Texas Southern University gave him firsthand insight into these dynamics, informing his approach to presidential searches. in 2023, he wasnt planning to resurrect a defunct executive search firm.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 5, 2025

Sessions on innovative approaches to financial aid and tuition modeling provided administrators with new strategies to make financial aid more accessible and efficient. Leadership development and faculty retention were also central themes, with speakers sharing best practices for cultivating strong, sustainable school communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. That sends a powerful message to students and also the faculty that they’re valued, and it has led to retention and growth.” Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

Though overall teacher turnover increased in districts that moved to four-day school weeks, morale and retention rates improved due to the reduced workweek, according to a new report from Keystone Policy Center. Our goal is to provide policymakers with the tools and information they need to navigate this complex issue."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

It seeks to provide information about successful strategies, explore mentoring programs that enable the success of the young men, and to provide the latest research of the methods higher education institutions can employ to increase access, persistence, and retention and graduation rates.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

The Outcomes: An 8% increase in retention, improved advising efficiency, and more effective cross-functional collaboration. But dispersed student information across multiple systems made implementing an integrated and collaborative student success network challenging. It was like seeing a student in a profile.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Interested participants can expect narrative video content, data-informed best practices, reflection activities and self-assessments. Attendees will also have the opportunity to get a glimpse of the curriculum content and sign up for access to the inaugural course.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

As indicated by several key metrics, over the past decade underrepresented minority (URM) students have made considerable progress in retention, graduation, and persistence rates. Working with our campuses, we’ve put in place high standards to raise their overall retention rates, overall graduation rates and overall attainment rates.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Excelencia in Education, an organization working for increased access and completion of Latinx students in postsecondary education, has released its latest report on programs that have qualitatively and quantitatively shown to improve and increase the success of Latinx students in higher education. Dr. Jimmy E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

IHEP identified these two institutions by using the Equitable Value Explorer , a free, publicly accessible site that analyzes data from colleges and universities across the country. offers 28 data dashboards with insights on enrollment, grades, financial aid, retention, completion, and student demographics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Scott Schirmeier The new Recruitment Management module improves Navigate’s customer relationship management capabilities and simplifies recruitment/retention for schools into one platform, allowing schools to implement coordinated communications strategies for prospective students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Through carefully targeted programs and partnerships that remove barriers to educational access and success, these leaders hope their latest numbers portend future growth. Eventually, Towner said he discovered that CCC did not have an enrollment problem as much as a retention problem.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

“We see how introductory courses like Calculus play a unique role as a gateway or barrier for racially minoritized students in terms of access to STEM majors and careers,” he says. “We Ford envisions him having an impact on recruitment and retention. He’s bringing innovative approaches.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

20 – dives into data from its partner institutions to look at potential relationships between access to courses, credits taken per school year, and college completion. For instance, ‘walking’ students had a 29% retention rate and a 7% rate of completion. Sarah Collins Ad Astra’s 2024 Benchmark Report – released on Feb.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Addressing the need Queensborough Community College (QCC), a two-year institution in the City University of New York system, conducted an equity audit that showed there were retention and graduation disparities for male students overall, with Black and Latinx male students disproportionately impacted.

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EAB

MARCH 10, 2023

Press Release EAB’s Navigate Platform Now Supports Student Recruitment and Retention EAB expands Navigate’s CRM capabilities to engage prospective students March 10, 2023 Tempe, Arizona (March 10, 2023) — EAB announced today an extension of its flagship student success technology, Navigate , to help colleges engage and enroll prospective students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Retention efforts Morgan State is currently number one in the United States in producing Black electrical engineers and civil engineers, Wilson notes. This requires thoughtful retention efforts. Once students transition out of that first-year format, the success and retention office continues to work with them through graduation. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the early aughts, Renick says, it was standard practice for student support programs to address equity gaps and low graduation or retention numbers through the creation of targeted programs, like initiatives for first-generation students, and African American male initiatives. The moment to really intervene is as soon as it happens.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Following the institute’s collaborative sessions, leaders gained fresh perspectives on addressing issues hindering student retention and success. Having one place to track information accessible to those who need it outside of individual teams ensures a seamless handoff, enhancing the impact and focus of student interactions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As she transitions into this new role, Gilliam said she had her sights on certain key matters, including student diversity, affordability, retention, and graduation rates. "I I have a lot of goals and ideas around students and creating a really inclusive culture and addressing issues of access and affordability,” Gilliam told Diverse.

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