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

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. This approach can significantly impact student retention, resulting in 2-5% uplifts in persistence.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

We discovered the key steps leaders and institutions are taking to strategically –and sometimes dramatically– improve their retention rates. 5 High-Impact Retention Strategies While institutions continue working hard to ensure their students graduate, initiative results often fall short of expectations. PP when misapplied.

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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. When Snow College accessed Initiative Analysis data to determine if all students benefit equally from a one-on-one advising experience, the answer was loud and clear.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

SRU recognized they must invest in data-driven initiatives that increase retention and graduation rates for all students while also allowing them to identify the needs of different class cohorts and specific populations. Static groups allow them to quickly and easily make lists of particular students they’d like to monitor.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

Career services and career advising are available to most college students, but we know they are often under-resourced and under-utilized at most postsecondary institutions,” said Carolynn Lee , senior program officer at Ascendium.

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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

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

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. “Our With Civitas Learning’s Course Status tool, students can see their degree progress at a glance. #4

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

SRU recognized they must invest in data-driven initiatives that increase student retention and graduation rates while also allowing them to identify the needs of different class cohorts and specific populations. Static groups allow them to quickly and easily make lists of particular students they’d like to monitor.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 23, 2024

Identifying Bottleneck Courses to Deliver Precise Academic Support Visibility into the impact individual courses have on persistence and graduation empowers provosts, academic deans, advising teams, and faculty members to identify and address barriers to student success in a clear, purposeful way.

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EAB

MAY 1, 2023

If you hear: It would be great if we had data on term-to-term retention. You might say: Let’s explore options that facilitate self-service analytics. Case in point When faced with the task of reducing equity gaps in their retention rates, CSU Fullerton invested in 10 retention specialists to leverage new technologies.

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EAB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We learned that students mental health may be the greatest threat to retention. Several speakers noted that, while leading with compassion may feel like a struggle for already stretched advising staff, it’s more important than ever as staff and students alike deal with the ongoing stress created by the pandemic. get your copy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. In this chapter, best practices focused on the areas of advising, engagement, instruction, and programing will be discussed. Dr. Erik M. Frazier, R.-M.

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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. Coordinated Care: Streamlining the coordination of care between various support entities within the institution can significantly benefit students.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

As each of these activities requires an ongoing effort from leaders and frontline staff throughout the institution, data governance initiatives must be carefully designed to ensure that each process incorporates the right individuals at the right times and leverages appropriate mechanisms and frameworks to facilitate continuous improvement.

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Blackboard Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2015

We developed solutions for enrollment, admissions, advising, financial aid, and registration. HR was involved to help facilitate changing of roles. Julie: About 15 years ago when we started our one-stop, our institution was very focused on graduation rates and retention rates. We’ve made great strides as an institution.

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College Planners of America

MARCH 26, 2024

Nevertheless, students and parents are advised to use rankings as only one of many sources of information. Best Value rankings are intended to facilitate the comparison of colleges across state lines. Full-Time Retention Rate Percent of full-time, first-time students enrolled the prior year that re-enroll the next year.

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College Planners of America

MARCH 26, 2024

Nevertheless, students and parents are advised to use rankings as only one of many sources of information. Best Value rankings are intended to facilitate the comparison of colleges across state lines. Full-Time Retention Rate Percent of full-time, first-time students enrolled the prior year that re-enroll the next year.

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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.

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EAB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Further, low retention and graduation rates continue to affect overall student success and disproportionately impact vulnerable student groups (e.g., Yet, students often see advising sessions as transactional activities synonymous with “course registration” and have inconsistent experiences due to the lack of overall structure.

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COE

JULY 17, 2023

Maureen Hoyler In his previous position as the assistant vice provost for academic advising at the University of Texas at Arlington, Dr. Brown demonstrated exceptional leadership and provided invaluable support to the University Advising Center and advising initiatives throughout the institution.

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