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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu. In the last three years EPW’s fall to fall retention ranges from 93% to 96%. “I I track them in retention. Rueda-Acedo says the service learning is extremely beneficial in retention as well as the students’ personal connection to this profession.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Utilizing a data-driven approach, ATD provides coaching that facilitates institutional transformation so that these colleges can have maximum impact on the lives of their students and on the communities within which they are located. The metrics include course completion, retention, program completion and program completion with wage gains.

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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. And collaboration with other stakeholders remained difficult due to workflow inefficiencies and a lack of supportive tools to facilitate coordinated student care.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Improved Advisor Experience Many of our partners share experiencing a plateau in their retention rates despite efforts to improve student outcomes. We’ve learned from our community that an effective way to overcome retention plateaus is to shift from broad activities to focused, intentional efforts for specific student groups.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 13, 2023

Enabling Data-Informed Action is the third step in a responsive process that improves student retention and completion in a way that supports financial health. You can also explore how to develop a dynamic strategic plan and facilitate a collaborative success network.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Creating a Customized Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Dashboard Elmira College's partnership with Edify About Elmira College is a private college with a total enrollment of 673 students, a 76% retention rate, and a 56% six-year graduation rate. Exacerbating the problem, Elmira saw several key IT staff resign in 2021.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

The Strategy: Implement student success technology to generate actionable insights, improve visibility, and create workflow efficiencies to lift enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. However, like many institutions, it faced challenges in boosting enrollment, retention, and completion rates.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 8, 2023

Data-activated cross-functional collaboration as the second step in a responsive process that improves student retention and completion in a way that supports financial health. In this step, leadership teams facilitate cross-functional collaboration by establishing alignment around a shared definition of student success.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 28, 2023

CONHI’s program leaders utilized Civitas Learning’s Administrative Analytics tools to surface timely and actionable insights they wouldn’t have been able to see otherwise. With this knowledge, the college could devise targeted retention strategies to keep students on track to graduation.

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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. And collaboration with other stakeholders remained difficult due to workflow inefficiencies and a lack of supportive tools to facilitate coordinated student care.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 23, 2024

Moreover, barriers to retention, such as classes not offered in a certain term or conflicting courses, can lead students to under-enroll in courses or enroll in courses they don’t need to complete their degree. Advisors view the same plan as students, serving as a shared canvas.

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EAB

JANUARY 13, 2023

Are your student administrative tasks user-friendly? Do you offer your students digitally facilitated interactions to help them find their place on campus with options like student clubs, athletic teams, and peer mentorships? 2 programs that facilitate positive mental health conversations among Black men. Frictionless services.

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

Retain more students and close equity gaps Retention and student equity efforts rely heavily on data; without establishing benchmarks and tracking progress toward KPIs, there is no meaningful way to judge progress. First, it improves retention by giving students the specific form of support they are most likely to benefit from.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Technology can facilitate seamless communication among academic advisors, counselors, and health professionals, ensuring that students receive comprehensive and holistic support. However, when digitizing your administrative processes, it’s important to engage in “process mapping” first to understand the pain points in your current system.

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EAB

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When the census data came, high-level administrators at the institution huddled over spreadsheets trying to figure out exactly what the right numbers were to share with the college’s board and our national reporting agencies. We use Rapid Insight’s data analytics tools to understand and predict our enrollment and retention.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

In pushing back on the political DEI pushback, they should explain that DEIB—Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging—is about creating an institutional culture and climate that embraces the identities of all higher education constituencies : administrators, faculty, staff, students, and alumni.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens. We acknowledge that more work needs to be done to right the many wrongs imposed on Black males. & Alexander, L.D.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

These researchers pioneered and popularized the idea that retention is driven by “ student engagement.” Metrics: First-year retention Student engagement efforts started organizing under the umbrella of a “ first-year experience ” during the 1990s and early 2000s. appeared first on EAB.

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COE

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Courtney Temple , executive vice president and chief administrative officer at IIE, expressed, “The push for greater access and inclusivity in education is a long-term, collaborative practice. Nearly one million low-income and disabled students receive college access and retention services through COE member colleges annually.

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EAB

MAY 11, 2023

To optimize future marketing strategies and provide districts with data, the Biden-Harris administration and prominent job site platforms worked together to simplify the district hiring process. Interested in improving teacher morale and retention? Why are candidates disengaging at that point in the process? If so, when, and how?

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