Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the early aughts, Renick says, it was standard practice for student support programs to address equity gaps and low graduation or retention numbers through the creation of targeted programs, like initiatives for first-generation students, and African American male initiatives. The moment to really intervene is as soon as it happens.

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Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Today’s most influential leaders recognize that student success goes beyond traditional measures like retention and graduation rates. This approach fosters proactive, collaborative support by enabling the coordination of services such as academic coaching, advising, financial aid, and career guidance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Retention efforts Morgan State is currently number one in the United States in producing Black electrical engineers and civil engineers, Wilson notes. This requires thoughtful retention efforts. At that time, they transition to either a professional advisor in their school or major or mostly to faculty advisement.”

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 1, 2024

Department of Education and IHEP convened the summit focused on holistic advising and wraparound support services. One featured partnership between the City Colleges of Chicago and One Million Degrees is having a measurable effect on student retention and success.

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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. Having one place to track information accessible to those who need it outside of individual teams ensures a seamless handoff, enhancing the impact and focus of student interactions.

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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

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

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Challenge: Delivering timely support to a diverse and sizeable student population to foster improved retention and completion rates. The Outcomes: Achieved significant improvements in persistence and streamlined processes through a data-informed approach and strong faculty partnerships.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Artificial intelligence, if created and implemented responsibly, can help increase diverse, equitable, and inclusive recruitment and retention, DEI specialist Shayne Halls said during a University of Phoenix webinar Thursday. Everyone does not retain information in the same manner. Everyone learns differently.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This sense of belonging is critical for student retention and success. This approach informs more effective and culturally relevant support strategies. This includes integrating Latine epistemologies into teaching and advising practices.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 10, 2025

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Youtube Music | Full Transcript For many institutions, improving persistence and retention rates feels like an uphill battle, but Greenville Technical College (GTC) is proving what’s possible when data meets execution. to 58% , a stunning 25 percentage point gain.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, Equity, and Affordability: A Primer for Higher Education Leaders and Educators " a report produced by Whiteboard Advisors and created in partnership with the Harvard-MIT Axim Collaborative, details the ways in which AI can be used to assist colleges and universities with student support, data organization, enrollment, and retention.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

As many Black learners, particularly first-generation, don’t persist beyond their first year in higher education, retention efforts are essential. The report also notes requiring ongoing career advisement and formalizing the mentorship experience. This includes peer-to-peer mentoring as well as connection to alumni.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Higher education institutions that bring together previously disjointed approaches to student care gain greater clarity and drive measurable improvements in retention, completion rates, career readiness, and the overall student experience. Discover: Common challenges that institutions face in aligning care.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. EAB · How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. That we've been working on intentionally for this past year, is the relationship between advising and our success coaches and the faculty. Episode 126. November 1, 2022. Transcript.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

Throughout all of my higher ed positions — department head, dean, provost and now president — I have continued to be involved in research by advising graduate student thesis or dissertation work,” said Lim, who has been extensively published and presented at more than 100 conferences. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). Regardless of the mentor’s profession, what was obvious was that the participants had someone coaching, advising, or guiding them and networking on their behalf.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Encouragement Watford inherited one pre-college program that already existed for seventh and eighth graders, providing information about electrical and computer engineering. After undergraduate programming demonstrated improved retention and graduation rates, Watford was able to recruit students to Virginia Tech.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Instead, new student orientation, advising, and other supports are focused on assessing whether students need remediation, introducing students to the college, and helping them schedule their first-term courses. And many of these supports are optional.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Another recommendation was that each school develop retention and persistence strategies for Black students using a personalized student support model, along with enhanced advising. Schools that hit their goals would receive increased funding and those that don’t, would lose dollars.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 17, 2025

This approach empowers institutions to uncover hidden gaps and drive outcomes like improving retention, scaling advising, and strengthening cross-campus collaboration. The result is a thoughtful, high-impact approach to advising that empowers staff and strengthens the student experience.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 13, 2025

From emergency response during Hurricane Helene to long-term improvements in retention and graduation rates, Regine and Lynne share how their partnership and use of technology have strengthened the student experience at UNC Asheville. Their largest year-over-year retention increase to date.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies. Each scholar receives financial support for study abroad and specialized advisors through the Macaulay Advising Program. “I

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In Massachusetts , the state-funded Supporting Urgent Community College Equity Through Student Services (SUCCESS) program provides community college students with wraparound services including tutoring, academic advising, financial aid counseling, and career guidance.

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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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Civitas Learning

MAY 11, 2023

Those who achieved 4-5 times ROI from their student success initiatives use a responsive, strategic process incorporating data-informed decision-making, coordinated efforts, informed action, and consistent assessment. However, it’s no longer sufficient to focus solely on academic support to increase student retention.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 30, 2023

Kelly is the Vice President of Academic Affairs at SUNY Broome, and with the collaboration of faculty and staff, the institution is now implementing guided pathways and transitioning to a caseload-based academic advising model. 19:06] – These initiatives don’t only help enrollment but also retention. [22:06]

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Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

But when information is spread across multiple platforms, it slows them down and risks missing the students who need help most. 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.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 3, 2025

In higher education, making timely, data-informed decisions to support students isn’t easy. The information you need is often scattered across systems, buried in static reports, or hard to translate into action. In contrast, adaptable analytics offers real-time insights tailored to an institution’s specific needs.

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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

JULY 11, 2024

Tailoring and implementing the right mix of initiatives for each institution is crucial to improving retention and graduation rates. This approach has yielded impressive results: an 8% improvement in retention from 2016 to 2021, and an overall retention rate of 80% from Fall 2021 to Fall 2022, surpassing their retention goal.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Despite their best efforts, many institutions still have work to do to improve student retention and graduation. Institutional-specific information is critical to understanding which programs work for particular student groups to move beyond traditional one-size-fits-all approaches.

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Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I’ve lost track of how often I’ve heard the following phrase in college meetings, “The advising team can do it,” when talking about taking on new projects or duties. We need an approach to academic advising caseload management that ensures advisors can help all students and frees them from crushing workloads.

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