Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We collaborate with over 25 community partners where students obtain professional experience while serving the community.” To date, 391 students, 98.72% of them Latino, have collaborated with more than 25 non-profit organizations for a total of 6,782 hours. We know their intentions. We know their siblings. We know their families.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

The report underscores the importance of creating engaging and welcoming environments in higher education settings that recognize racial trauma, engender trust, and foster collaboration across departments that support student well-being. Dr. Annelle B. Primm is the Steve Fund’s Senior Medical Director.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

There is power in being a role model, he says, and that’s why he wants to make sure undergrads and graduates can see themselves represented in Lehman faculty, staff, and administration. An example of the student support these funds have helped to develop is The Mount’s integrated advising system.

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Longstanding methods of managing data in silos make it difficult for faculty and administrators to agree on common data sources and shared dashboards. Outdated Systems — Legacy systems often aren’t created for easy collaboration, complicating data quality management. So, how can schools access clean, usable data?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

On the panel, “Selecting Evidence-Based Advising Strategies to Improve Student Outcomes,” Thompson spoke about equity being a top priority, noting that, if higher education does not serve its most disenfranchised populations, then it is failing. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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Low income student Students Retention Higher education 299

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Her focus is student success initiatives, which include a lot of different focus areas, including guided pathways and holistic advising, developmental education reform, and a number of things that lead to increased student success, particularly with underserved populations, says Felder. These reforms can be broad-based.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Early in her time as an administrator at Virginia Tech, she implemented the Black Engineering Support Team (BEST), having Black upperclassmen be peer mentors to freshmen. I stepped out of a tenure-track role and into an administrative position, where I could create programs to help students be successful.” After completing his Ph.D.

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Student Research Foundation

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If your main priority is to build transferable skills that will prepare you for a lucrative career, business administration or management might be a good fit. Helpful resources might include everything from research grants and advising services to specialized workshops and student groups.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Dr. Ericka Miller That’s according to interviews with the leadership of academic search firms, many of whom have spent years in higher education and collaborated with both public and private institutions across the U.S. and even around the world to fill key vacancies. Dr. Shawn M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2023

Overall, online-only students were less likely to collaborate with their peers, with half saying that they never did, compared to only 17% of non-online-only students. Now there are colleges that are mandating advising. And I don’t think that folks have totally figured that out yet.” Colleges are making that inescapable,” said García.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Claudia Salcedo, who adds that administrators can sometimes be perceived as separate from the students they serve. Prior to starting this position in April 2024, Salcedo spent two years as assistant director for administration of the Academic Advancement Program working with Alexander, who has directed AAP for over a decade.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Bring TimelyCare to Your School How to foster a help-seeking campus culture Higher education administrators play a pivotal role in normalizing help-seeking behaviors. Partner with student organizations, residence halls, and cultural centers to offer pop-up counseling sessions, financial aid workshops, or academic advising.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 8, 2023

Silos persist, differing definitions of student success hinder collaboration, and institutions struggle to establish a consistent and centralized knowledge base. There are numerous collaboration models in higher education, and each institution must create a model that suits its identity and needs.

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The Advisor That Cares

MARCH 21, 2025

while also making sure that the last appointment of the day is reserved for high school seniors needing advising after school. Collaborative discussion about the functions and features of the advising platform and effective solution of setting new availabilities for that last appointment slot to be only for the incoming cohort.

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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. Advising staff relied on outdated data to generate piecemeal reports that only captured a small part of each student’s academic situation.

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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. Using a unified student success platform facilitates communication, collaboration, and coordination among departments and helps clarify each staff member’s role in student success.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

Strategy : Shifting to a Proactive, Data-Informed Advising Model Despite their busy schedules, advisors needed a way to connect with at-risk students who were not actively seeking help. 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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Faculty Community college Advising Case manager 98

Civitas Learning

APRIL 11, 2024

The Outcomes: A collaborative student-advisor planning process and intuitive academic planning solution led to a 75% adoption rate in the initial few months. The Strategy: Implement a collaborative academic planning solution to empower students to build plans to help them stay on track to graduate.

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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. The Outcomes: This ability to deepen their work has led to a better student experience, improved student services, and a more collaborative approach.

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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. Here’s a glimpse of what’s coming in our roadmap: 1. Interested in learning more about a part of the platform?

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Civitas Learning

JULY 13, 2023

Our research into how institutions develop financially sustainable student success models reveals that the most effective models are living processes that intentionally knit together strategic decision-making, cross-functional collaboration, data-informed action, and consistent assessment of initiatives and outcomes.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 11, 2023

They observed that lower-performing students had significantly higher persistence rates when they had a one-on-one advising session, while the same intervention did not significantly affect higher-performing students’ persistence. Snow administrators used this insight to introduce group advising sessions and adjust advisor caseloads.

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Student success Success Retention Advising 98

Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Additionally, the longstanding approach of advising or programs like tutoring managing student success often leaves faculty isolated and disengaged from this important part of the student experience. This collaborative approach made it simpler for faculty to integrate the system in their day-to-day practices and share its value to peers.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 9, 2024

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Youtube Music | Full Transcript As higher education leaders experience the widespread success of Appreciative Advising, many are seeking new ways to integrate Appreciative Education into their entire campus.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

The Outcomes: Streamlined platform lifts enrollment, cultivates collaboration between faculty and staff, and informs strategic investment decisions based on measurable impact on institutional goals. Proactive Advising Model Supports Guided Pathways Initiative Advising is often considered the most powerful tool to improve student outcomes.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In the end, the institution spurred enrollment growth by pairing the right technology with stronger collaboration and process improvements. That we've been working on intentionally for this past year, is the relationship between advising and our success coaches and the faculty. Transcript.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 23, 2024

” — Erin Gunnell, Director of Success Advising & Tutoring, Ensign College #3 Discover Opportunities to Simplify the Registration Process Like any shopping experience, moving from multiple platforms during registration often leads to an incomplete transaction (or registration).

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Northwest’s student success model relies on collaboration between faculty, advisors, and student support units, such as diversity and inclusion, the registrar’s office, and the athletics department. For University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA), they implemented a “hub and spoke” model to break down silos and promote collaboration.

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Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Effective academic advising teams have the power to significantly impact student success, but often there are unseen barriers preventing advisors from reaching the right students at the right time. A Civitas Learning study on what works for student success found that advising is the most impactful initiative (5.8

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The Advisor That Cares

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

For Advisors: Transform transactional advising general information and onboarding orientation to systems, procedures, degree plan, resources to video, audio, and text resources in personally curated web resources by the Fall 2025 intake cycle for individualized flipped advisor guidance.

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NACAC's Admitted

DECEMBER 9, 2021

For the Character Collaborative —an organization of about 70 schools and colleges, as well as counselors, researchers, and associations committed to elevating attributes of character in the school and college admission process—character suggests features that distinguish an individual. iStock “She’s quite a character.” He’s a character actor.”

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NACAC's Admitted

DECEMBER 9, 2021

For the Character Collaborative —an organization of about 70 schools and colleges, as well as counselors, researchers, and associations committed to elevating attributes of character in the school and college admission process—character suggests features that distinguish an individual. “She’s quite a character.” He’s a character actor.”

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The Advisor That Cares

OCTOBER 30, 2022

This post is the first step in developing an influencer strategy that can help in the Innovation of Advising , which empowers students and advisors in creating authenticity in the advising relationship. Advising modules can include internal triggers to direct students’ needs based on assessments from within advising modules.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

We released two new playbooks to assist leadership teams in their practices of proactive advising and college-to-career transition. We raised $5 million for cutting-edge collaborative innovation projects, and we welcomed new colleagues and partners to the digital ecosystem of our University Innovation Lab.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

Strategy : Shifting to a Proactive, Data-Informed Advising Model Despite their busy schedules, advisors needed a way to connect with at-risk students who were not actively seeking help. 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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Faculty Community college Advising Case manager 52

Civitas Learning

AUGUST 1, 2024

Administrators and department leads should conduct a thorough audit across all departments to understand what’s available to support students so they can decide what initiatives and programs need a closer look. Administrators and leaders should collaborate with Institutional Research to schedule regular reviews.

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