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We also galvanized the field to express support for the Department of Educations forthcoming Financial Value Transparency framework, which will empower students and families to make more informed educational decisions and support institutional improvement efforts with more data than ever before about program costs and outcomes.

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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. Larry Hlavenka Jr.,

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APRIL 24, 2024

Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C. Speakers addressed evidence-based practices, collaboration, access, and advising. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

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MAY 1, 2024

Department of Education and IHEP convened the summit focused on holistic advising and wraparound support services. One Million Degrees offers coaching, mentoring, and financial and professional guidance. Another critical component of advising is helping students envision and achieve their career goals.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

And campus officials and advisers can see which students use the Planner and show interest in certain CSUs, Margitich said. The third phase of the Transfer Planner’s launch will introduce functions to pre-fill CSU college applications based on information that students have already put into the tool, he said.

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MAY 4, 2023

Your personal information is at risk to be leaked on the darkweb blog,” the messages said. Bluefield is advising students and faculty to not email from school accounts. Earlier this week, school information has not been published. We have admissions data from thousands of students. In 2020, at least 44 U.S.

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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.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Thank you to the financial aid advisers, college counselors, and many others helping us put students first.” ED plans to begin transmitting batches of FAFSA information, known as the Institutional Student Information Record, to schools and state agencies in the first half of March. Students

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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.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

“As we pursue the goals set forth in the plan, we are thrilled by the opportunity to sustain and build on IDHE’s outstanding efforts to inform and shift college and university priorities, practices, and culture to strengthen democracy and advance social and political equity.”

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Outcomes: Achieved significant improvements in persistence and streamlined processes through a data-informed approach and strong faculty partnerships. 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.

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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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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Be informed. Seek out information and updates to better advise and support students. You can follow relevant social media accounts like Immigrants Rising , Informed Immigrant , National Immigration Law Center , and the President’s Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

As the late Congressman John Lewis advised, ‘Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble,’” said ASALH officials. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) will host a series of events as part of its Third Annual Black History Month Festival this year. A panel on Feb.

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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. “We Institutions submit information about their cultural competence programming to CPE.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

million grant from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information – will select undergraduates for training, advising, and support to increase readiness for medical school. Belinda Campos UC PRIME Pre-Health Pathways (UCPPP) – it is receiving funding from a five-year, $3.6

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

Coleman described this as an “exceptionally fine but important line,” and cited application essays and interviews as particularly important avenues for this information. In July, SFFA sent a letter to 150 colleges and universities saying that race-based scholarships were illegal and advising institutions against keeping them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

During that time, the implementation of risk-informed, performance-based regulation became the norm. Jackson is on Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm’s Advisory Board and on the International Security Advisory Board, which advises Secretary of State Antony J. She also is a member of the Defense Science Board, which advises the U.S.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MARCH 10, 2025

Unlike datasets that only include information on students income level, NPSAS examines how students pay for college. By capturing data on veterans use of resources like advising and student services, NPSAS and BPS insights can inform policies and practices that ensure veterans receive necessary support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A slim majority of parents surveyed (51%) responded that they had heard some or a lot about nondegree pathways, teachers (42%) being their most cited source of information on the matter. Few counselors (15%) are even speaking to employers for input about how to advise students, Lammers said.

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MAY 15, 2024

A lot of my work is grounded in how Hip Hop informs student experiences in college,” Livingston said. Livingston studied history as an undergraduate and volunteered frequently in Durham and Chapel Hill, which introduced him to the world of college advising and supporting first-generation college students.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

The Outcomes: Scaled a proactive advising model campus-wide, streamlined advisor workflows to reach more students efficiently, and established continuous measurement to track the impact of support initiatives. One area quickly rose to the top: targeted advising.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Those assignments acknowledge the usefulness and the limitation of the technology, which cannot detect or differentiate human bias and negative stereotypes in the almost limitless field of data and information from which it pulls its answers. Then, students are required to show how the AI might be presenting false or misleading information.

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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. Centralize Student Information for a Unified View Coordinating care starts with systems that seamlessly organize and manage student information.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2023

A result of enacting the California Cradle-to-Career Data System Act in 2019, the C2C is meant to be a statewide education data system that brings together information on education, social services, and workforce matters into one cohesive product, said Dr. Su Jin Jez, CEO of California Competes.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The idea was, rather than waiting for students to self-identify their own problems and come to an advisor, let’s try to equip advisors with information on which students are struggling, so [the advisors] can target daily efforts where it would make the biggest difference,” says Renick. The moment to really intervene is as soon as it happens.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

This will affect how college counselors advise student athletes in high schools, even though counselors wont have nearly enough information to read all the tea leaves, leaving the potential for bad choices, wrong choices, and unhappy parents. This could get ugly.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 10, 2025

In this episode of Next Practices , we’re joined by Kevin McMindes , Assistant Director of Analytics at GTC, to explore how a focused, data-informed approach helped the college significantly boost student persistence rates—turning insight into action, and action into measurable impact. to 58% , a stunning 25 percentage point gain.

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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.

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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%­­.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Partnerships] are critical to creating clear programmatic pathways for students and for strengthening advising. IHEP found that when schools and states work together, they are best positioned to take advantage of the information that they have amassed. Very little of this work can be done independently,” she said.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Systems can be programmed to ignore factors such as demographic information and assess applicant resumes more objectively, Hall claimed. Everyone does not retain information in the same manner. When searching for useful AI systems, investigate not just the tool, but the people who developed it as well, Halls advised.

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JUNE 27, 2024

It’s really important to find benchmarks that can help inform efforts to improve at individual colleges,” Shapiro said. Another is integrating career advisement, especially within the first year. “If After surveys and assessments, the college identified key areas to better serve students.

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

If the information is inaccurate, it can mean missed chances to help struggling students and lead to unnecessary spending on policies and programs that don’t work. This ultimately limits the institution’s ability to make informed decisions that actually improve outcomes.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. The dashboard is available through the Office of Student Success. “By

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Explanations with too much personal information. Informal language “To stay updated on university-related matters, students should check their email frequently, ideally daily, but at a minimum, twice a week,” Dr. Stacey Patton, professor in Howard University’s media, journalism, film & communication department, wrote in an Aug.

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