Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Higher education leaders strive to create a course schedule that is both efficient to build and easy for students to enroll in necessary courses. Despite this intention, course schedule planning is often a reactive process that can lead to increased workloads for staff and frustration for students during active registration periods.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Because high schools that enroll substantial percentages of students of color are readily identifiable, colleges and universities must engage these designated school districts and, in conjunction with their administrative offices, create focused recruitment drives that begin the first day of the freshman year of high school. Dr. William B.

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Counselors' Corner

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we return to our students, and during a time when the world is focused on goal setting, what better time to look at our profession and consider the big-picture changes that would improve college access. Administrative training Too many administrators ascend to their position with no clue, or training, in what counselors do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

One-on-one meetings, additional office hours, and more administrative duties relating to the pandemic continue to add more work on a per student basis without the adequate support for professors to address these new demands efficiently. Textbook costs can run on average over $1,000 per year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With a grant from the Human Resources Services Administration, AAMU developed a master’s-level social work Registered Apprenticeship program that allows social work students to work as paraprofessionals, par ticularly in under-served communities. The program allows students to work on their own timelines, from one year to four.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Alexander is very accessible, very approachable for students,” says Dr. Claudia Salcedo, who adds that administrators can sometimes be perceived as separate from the students they serve. It is providing greater access for students from low-income, first-generation backgrounds. Coming from such a background drives him. “I

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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. From 2018 to 2023, Latinx staff representation increased from 33% to 38%, and administrator representation increased from 17% to 25%, respectively. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Students with summer Pell in the 2009-2011 period were 29% more likely to enroll in classes the following fall, 13% more likely to have earned an associate degree within three years, and 7% more likely to have earned a bachelor’s degree within six, compared with students who did not have access to the grants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It makes sense that a flexible course schedule allows community college students to be more likely to make progress towards a degree and ultimately graduate,” he said. Ortagus believes that the results fit with what we know about the lives of community college students and the limits of virtual interaction. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Since 2015, Stout has served as president and CEO of Achieving the Dream (ATD), a network of over 300 community colleges, with the goal of being accessible hubs of learning, credentialing and economic mobility that eliminate inequities in educational and workforce outcomes. Shes helping colleges implement evidence-based reforms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Higher Education Administration and Policy Education:   M.Ed. Galan’s dissertation, which he is scheduled to defend this summer, features interviews with 30 Latinx faculty on their experiences navigating tenure and promotion at a Hispanic Serving Institution.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MAY 15, 2025

In-person events offer face time and relationship building, while webinars provide accessibility and on-demand value. Encourage a culture of openness by emphasizing that financial aid exists to support access, not to judge need. Reassure families that their information is confidential and handled with care.

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Single Stop

JANUARY 29, 2025

This collaboration is designed to break down barriers and help students navigate financial hardships by providing information and access to basic needs and emergency funding. For more information, visit [link] or schedule a demo to learn more. Upswing and Single Stop Announce Partnership to Empower Marginalized Students NEW YORK, Jan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“I wasn’t interested in only being a dean of education,” he says, sitting inside of his spacious office on a recent afternoon after a whirlwind of meetings with faculty members, representatives from the athletics department and staff who marvel at his punishing schedule. “I Michigan State University stuck out right from the start. “As

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Timely MD

JANUARY 24, 2025

The Goals of CEEP include: Providing immediate, accessible support to students and the community during/after the event. Offering students a range of ways to access support tailored to their needs. Reducing the strain on on-campus mental health resources. Who is eligible? When should CEEP Be activated? hurricanes, wildfires).

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 23, 2023

The Challenge: New student orientation course scheduling process overwhelmed students, prevented advisors from having meaningful student interactions, and made it harder to manage classroom space and observe bottlenecks in class scheduling effectively.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 23, 2023

The Challenge: New student orientation course scheduling process overwhelmed students, prevented advisors from having meaningful student interactions, and made it harder to manage classroom space and observe bottlenecks in class scheduling effectively.

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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. Additionally, advisors and the registrar’s team invested significant time manually preloading students’ schedules before new student orientation.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

To encourage these students to apply for financial aid, it’s crucial to provide clear and accessible information. Streamlining the transfer application process can significantly reduce the burden of paperwork and administrative tasks. To effectively reach transfer students and their families, personalized outreach is key.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

Faculty and staff needed ways to easily communicate and access student data in one place so they had the shared context they needed to meaningfully help students. Faculty and staff can now access a comprehensive picture of each student. To advise students effectively, we needed to see the whole picture.”

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 11, 2024

Ensign needed a new academic planning solution that was easy to use and accessible for its students. Implementing a comprehensive academic planning and student scheduling solution was well-received, with 75% of students adopting it during the initial launch.

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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Users who have graduated or completed their training can continue to access online telehealth appointments but will pay $79 out of pocket per session. Access to these two platforms is connected to your JHED ID. SilverCloud only provides institutional subscriptions; there is no way to access the platform after your JHED ID expires.

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EAB

APRIL 17, 2023

Blogs Looking to Grow Your Health Care Administration Program? Here Are Four Tips Health care administration programs are increasingly attractive to both students and employers. Here are four components of a successful health care administration program—and profiles of five institutions succeeding in this market. subplans”).

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 23, 2024

Learn how Civitas Learning’s Academic Planning and Scheduling Solution removes common barriers to completion. 1 Identify Barriers to Accessing Courses on Students’ Degree Plan Many institutions struggle to offer students an intuitive method for mapping their pathway to graduation. . #1 percentage point lift on persistence.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

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. These coaches bridge success and retention efforts, aiding students in accessing campus resources and conducting exit interviews.

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NACAC's Admitted

APRIL 16, 2023

Numerous campus administrators and staff members are concerned and offer plenty of potential ideas to reach more students. adding in some weekend hours, increasing marketing, and scheduling more in-person and virtual open houses are some of the usual approaches. Do you have a four-year university in town with an access mission?

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Challenge: Administrators and staff lacked the real-time information necessary to reach struggling students before it was too late. Additionally, Academic success coaches can easily access and quickly prioritize early alerts submitted by faculty with the added context of other success metrics like a persistence prediction.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Challenge: General lack of visibility into students’ needs, limited methods of communication, and technology constraints, lead to inadequate access to personalized academic advising and support. The analysis found that the online orientation program saw an average 7.4% lift in persistence among participating students.

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Timely MD

APRIL 4, 2023

Lack of virtual resources: Although virtual therapy has become more widely available in recent years, access to these resources can be limited for college athletes who may not have access to technology or may not be familiar with how to use these types of resources.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Advisors also need quick and easy access context to deliver the proper support. This additional context, already accessible at an aggregate level in Administrative Analytics, will include access to powerful predictors on the individual student level and inclusion of powerful predictors in group building criteria.

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Timely MD

AUGUST 7, 2023

Balancing teaching, research, administration, and student support can lead to burnout. Limited resources and support: Faculty and staff may have limited access to mental health resources tailored to their needs. Limited resources and support: Faculty and staff may have limited access to mental health resources tailored to their needs.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 9, 2023

Administrators should carefully consider how and when faculty are asked to use alerts to provide information about student progress. While many institutions utilize a regular schedule of “checkpoint” alerts (e.g., While many institutions utilize a regular schedule of “checkpoint” alerts (e.g.,

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The Counseling Geek

MAY 5, 2023

As a powerful language model, ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize school counseling, providing students with a more accessible and efficient way to access the support they need. That’s where ChatGPT comes in. Programmatic Supports 1.

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The Counseling Geek

MAY 16, 2024

A little background for anyone new or unfamiliar with The College Board The College Board, a major educational “nonprofit” organization in the United States that operates around the world, is perhaps most famously known for its administration of the SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) exams. They don’t get done until 4-5pm.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Outcomes: Findings Spark Strategic Conversations to Improve the FYE Lakeland faculty and administrators could have easily assumed that the FYE course benefited all students, considering it is a best practice in student support. Identify opportunities to improve the FYE curriculum to serve students better.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

To achieve these goals, it was imperative to improve access to student information and facilitate seamless communication and collaboration between teams – specifically faculty and staff who faced challenges sharing student information.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

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. Administrators and advisors needed a system with one centralized view to identify relationships, patterns, and gaps in their understanding of caseloads.

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