Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

Across nearly 30 institutions and 150 initiatives, one theme stood out: students respond best to timely, personalized communication that makes them feel seen and understood. While individualized support may work for small cohorts, it becomes unsustainable when advising caseloads exceed 100 students. But more emails aren’t the answer.

Advising

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We also partnered with the Department of Education for the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Advising Summit. Our research, operations, advocacy, communications and finances are well planned and executed because of these individuals, and I remain grateful for their steadfast commitment to our mission.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 30, 2025

Rather than prohibition, the framework recommends "establishing and clearly communicating expectations for use of AI to encourage dynamic uses and ensure academic integrity." This includes teaching students to cite AI sources and understand the technology's limitations.

Community college

Civitas Learning

APRIL 29, 2025

This new feature enables colleges and universities to integrate Civitas Learning advising functionality directly within the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS), providing a seamless user experience for faculty and advisors. Why This Matters Time and ease of use are critical for users balancing teaching, advising, and administrative tasks.

Advising

Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

As Northwest Missouri State University (Northwest) worked to improve retention rates, it recognized that faculty and staff needed a centralized location to communicate and access student data easily. Whether addressing a financial hold or advising on course enrollment, UTSA knows that every interaction impacts the student experience.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In addition to support services that include financial aid and academic advising, an example of supporting Latinx student success is the CSUSB Impact Internship, developed by the university’s Undocumented Student Success Center. Morales, president of CSUSB. This is a paid, on-campus internship for undocumented students at CSUSB. .

Retention

Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

This approach fosters proactive, collaborative support by enabling the coordination of services such as academic coaching, advising, financial aid, and career guidance. This approach overwhelms advising and support teams and contributes to declining retention rates.

Retention

Civitas Learning

JULY 28, 2025

As students navigate mental health challenges, academic pressure, and growing concerns spurred by policy changes, effective support must extend beyond the advising office. Make Support a Shared Responsibility Supporting the whole student requires more than strong advising, it takes cross-campus coordination and shared accountability.

Student success

Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Communicating free or low-cost options is vital. Incorporate language like Its smart to ask for help into orientation programs, campus-wide communications and even classroom discussions. At Saybrook University, Yahaya said virtual onboarding and email follow-ups have created a sense of community even for remote learners.

Mental health

Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

Communication and integrated workflows also play a critical role. By equipping staff and faculty with a centralized platform to access and share student information, Northwest streamlined advising and made it easier to provide timely, personalized support.

Scheduling

Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2024

By identifying the specific factors affecting studentssuch as LMS compared to their peers, last advising appointment, or shifts in engagement or persistence likelihood advisors can proactively engage and offer tailored support. Successful institutions are also digging deeper to understand not just who needs help but why.

Students

Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Disjointed systems can lead to feeling like a pinballbeing bounced between financial aid, advising, faculty, and the registrar over a registration holdcausing confusion and frustration. Inefficient Processes Poor coordination and communication lead to duplicated efforts, wasting time and resources.

Advising

Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

MARCH 3, 2025

Lawrence Excellence in Advising Award Recipients Announced Dr. Rhonda Stanton, Azaria Hogans, and Karmen Brewer will be recognized as the recipients of the 2025 Curtis P. Lawrence Excellence in Advising Awards at the Kathy J. Brewer serves as a Senior Academic Advisor in the Business Advisement Center.

Advising

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.

Advising

Counselors' Corner

APRIL 23, 2025

Some of this may be helpfulif you get a call from a student studying your major, greatbut many of these communications are just designed to give you a feel or glow for the college that can cloud your judgement, not clear it.

Financial aid

COE

MAY 2, 2025

Its not enough to provide financial aidstudents also need academic guidance, mentoring, and personalized advising to stay on track. The stakesfor our students, our communities, and our countrycould not be higher. TRIO is the insurance policy for the Pell Grant, said Maureen Hoyler, COE Senior Advisor and past president.

Education

Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

MAY 1, 2025

Transfer Resources Technology in Advising Back by popular demand, come learn from the staff of Computer Services about changes in technology and future upgrades and initiatives. This forum is important to understand changes that will impact how we advise students.

Advising

Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Transfer News Adventures in Advising Podcast Campbell Keele, Coordinator of Transfer Initiatives in the Academic Advising & Transfer Center, was recently featured on an episode of the “Adventures in Advising” podcast with host Matt Markin. The minutes from the Transfer Advising Committee’s latest meeting can be found below.

Nontraditional student

Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

APRIL 1, 2025

Inside Higher Ed Article Transfer Resources Technology in Advising Back by popular demand, come learn from the staff of Computer Services about changes in technology and future upgrades and initiatives. This forum is important to understand changes that will impact how we advise students.

Advising

Civitas Learning

MAY 13, 2025

Together, theyve connected advising, registration, and student support in ways that empower students to stay on track and give staff the insights they need to act quickly and effectively.

Retention

COE

JUNE 3, 2025

In addition to its proven effectiveness, TRIO is essential in rural communities and under-resourced schools that often lack the infrastructure to support students from historically marginalized backgrounds. TRIO bridges that gapproviding personalized advising, mentorship, academic support, and a clear pathway to college completion.

First generation

COE

JULY 15, 2025

COE Director of Program Practice and Innovation and liaison to the Community College Initiative Advisory Committee, added, “This award recognizes not just programs, but institutional commitment. We look forward to celebrating colleges that have woven SSS best practices into advising, resource alignment, and opportunity-focused planning. “In

First generation

Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Register for the 2025 COTA Conference Transfer Advising Committee The Transfer Advising Committee has representation from each academic college and works collaboratively to develop best practices for transfer advising, facilitate communication regarding transfer student issues, and offer professional development for transfer advisors.

Advising

Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

JANUARY 6, 2025

If you would like further details and a more in-depth look at the new functionality, please consider viewing the first 25 minutes of the Transfer Advising Essentials: Whats New? Emily Muniz and Kemper Steele describe the creation of the VCCS Transfer Advising Peer Group in this article from Inside Higher Ed.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Many of those students had to find information about how to successfully prepare for transferring through their own efforts, rather than have that presented to them upon enrollment at the community college. Community colleges have transfer advising and articulation agreements, but these agreements evolve and change.

Communication

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

These are a few of the ways many college students communicate with their instructors over email, much to the dismay and frustration of many educators. "I Effective and professional communication is expected from students. an advising appointment [with 'high importance']." Time-sensitive requests during off hours.

Communication

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Bermea Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) may be models for how institutions can organize to effectively serve and advise students, according to a new report from Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. It provides tips for effective advising and includes strategies to help ensure students receive needed support.

Advising

Ed.gov Homeroom

AUGUST 10, 2022

Department of Education, Office of Communication and Outreach “The main function of an academic advisor is to bring holistic support to students as they navigate their higher education to post grad journey.” Universities and higher education institutions nationwide provide academic advising for both undergraduate and graduate students.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

Jackson – an urban researcher, media ethnographer, anthropologist of religion, and theorist of race/ethnicity – is currently the dean at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication and serves as the Richard Perry University Professor and is on the faculty at Penn’s Center for Experimental Ethnography. Jackson holds a B.A.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

By being proactive with admissions, recruitment, and advising, however, we can reduce this risk. Research suggests that we send cues affecting underrepresented students’ aspirations, application, and enrollment decisions through three channels: public policies, admissions requirements, and recruitment and advising interactions.

Application

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Anderson made her mark on radio broadcasting and the field of communications, serving as a mentor and adviser to famed WSU alum and broadcast journalist Edward R. She taught at the school until 1939, when she took leave due to deteriorating health. Anderson held a master’s degree in speech from the University of Chicago.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

IHEP helps the schools align their transfer processes with four principles: that credits earned at an institution will transfer and apply to a bachelor’s, that costs will be streamlined and not change over the course of the student’s path, that time-to-degree will be minimized, and that degree pathways will be clearly communicated.

Communication

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

Slate is a highly customizable software that automates time-consuming practices, improves communication, and de-siloes student information. Salesforce.org, another CRM company, has found that the use of CRMs in postsecondary education increased student enrollment by 10%­­.

Retention

College Aid Services

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Federal Student Aid has started to email FAFSA applicants to advise them to check their form’s status in “the first half of March.” ” The communication failed short of providing any new information or an exact date.

Advising

EAB

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Blogs Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference The academic advising profession faces shrinking budgets, expanding student and administration expectations, and increasing turnover—all of which make it harder for institutions to think strategically about advising structure and staffing to support student success.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Learning that involved oral communication (81%) and adaptability/flexibility (81%) were seen as the most desirable skills. Slightly more employers preferred candidates with high school diplomas and microcredentials (14%) over college graduates without microcredentials (13%).

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Starting in 2011, Rueda-Acedo has incorporated innovative experiential learning activities and forged community partnerships with organizations such as the Arlington Public Library, Human Rights Initiative of North Texas and DFW Toys for Tots. “In And this co-advising model is 100% in collaboration with the institutional partner.

Mentoring