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.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

It is crucial to adequately train faculty to deliver high-quality instruction and provide them with simple strategies to connect students to resources. Barriers such as siloed systems or entrenched processes from previous leadership can limit visibility into student behavior and performance—key factors for driving successful outcomes.

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Student Research Foundation

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Instead, focus on exploring leadership opportunities or doubling down on your involvement in your favorite clubs and extracurriculars. You may even benefit from investing in one-on-one advising through a college counseling service like CollegeAdvisor. Build out your college resume. Take (or re-take) standardized tests.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

Academic advising is a bedrock of any student’s successful persistence toward graduation. Investing in faculty development, like continuing instructional education and certification programs, yielded a significant increase in persistence of 11.4 PP lift with advising appointments, a 13.1 PP lift with easy course scheduling.

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The Advisor That Cares

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Torn between addressing blended learning in advising as a benefit for students or to advisors. I believe that when we create significant learning environments about advising topics that help students connect with why and when they might need to know about a requirement, procedure, or general FAQ and How-Tos.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

There are a variety of leadership styles represented across our membership institutions, and we asked him to explain his approach of balancing optimism with proactive problem-solving: "You can't be too optimistic, right? And that's what leadership is about. That was a shift in my leadership style. Where are we on this?

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The University Innovation Alliance

JANUARY 26, 2023

danielle Fri, 01/27/2023 - 11:35 Image Blog Post Higher Ed Leadership University Innovation Lab 3minutes Are you feeling siloed, stuck, or overwhelmed in your efforts to better serve first-generation, low income, and students of color? Ready to Innovate With Us? Join us in the Lab!

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The Advisor That Cares

JUNE 10, 2023

I really do have an opportunity to revolutionize advising within my organization. Now, I get to build my course, my ubiquitous resource, my example of revolutionary advising for learner and advisor alike.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Additionally, an AI-powered knowledge bot will give students an easier way to get support, instructions, and answers to common questions straight from their smartphones while easing the burden on university staff. Learn more at eab.com.

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The Advisor That Cares

JUNE 11, 2023

The course outlines the student’s responsibilities in their college experience and within the advising relationship. Advising falls within both enrollment management and student success arenas. The advising course must relieve advisors of the information transfer aspects of the advising relationship.

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The Advisor That Cares

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Stepping into a leadership role in an advising office makes me reflect on the whirlwind discussed during the Four Disciplines of Execution (McChesney & Huling, 2012) in the Organizational Change course (EDLD 5304). I never realized how valuable those might be to students in a flipped advising situation.

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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.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 26, 2023

The closest thing we have is advising or a help desk, but they're designed to tell the student how they can change their behavior to accommodate into our systems. That week alone, they spend 3,000 advising hours to talk to those students. You can use it as an extension of advising. Innovating Through Failure.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

When Snow College leveraged Civitas Learning’s Administrative and Initiative Analysis solution to determine if all students benefit equally from a one-on-one advising experience, the answer was clear. This analysis contributed to a 12% increase in retention from Fall 2022 to Fall 2023. Read the Blog 5.

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The Advisor That Cares

JUNE 24, 2023

This introduction to advising includes a ton of information about policies, procedures, impacts, and considerations which serve as an onboard to the university. This five-week course could focus on resources available and referral procedures, reinforcing the advising relationship as a central hub for connecting across campus.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We connected each section with supplemental instruction, so a near-peer tutor was embedded. We had proactive advising where we were tracking the students on a very intense level, looking at engagements through online technology platforms, looking at course attendance, tracking quizzes, and reaching out to students proactively.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

Academic advising is a bedrock of any student’s successful persistence toward graduation. Investing in faculty development, like continuing instructional education and certification programs, yielded a significant increase in persistence of 11.4 PP lift with advising appointments, a 13.1 PP lift with easy course scheduling.

Retention 52

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

For every report, schools must review instructions, compile the data, connect the dots from disparate systems, and create a cogent narrative. Effective data governance lays the groundwork for easing compliance work at the institution but requires a more strategic partnership between executive leadership and the IR/IT offices leading the work.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2023

In each session, the fellows gained depth in new topics or terrains, developed leadership skills, and built a network with peers from institutions across the country. Our second cohort concluded in December 2021, our third cohort wrapped up in spring 2022, our fourth occurred in fall 2022, and our fifth occurred in spring 2023.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 4, 2023

Technology Partnerships and Higher Education A Conversation With Drew Magliozzi, CEO of Mainstay Alan Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:00 Chatbots Higher Ed Leadership Innovation Spotlight In our mission to promote equity in higher education, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) highlights the strategies of our member institutions.

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The Advisor That Cares

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Creating a flipped advising approach. NACADA Clearinghouse of Academic Advising Resources. 2010, February 4). Sir Ken Robinson – changing paradigms [Video]. link] Steele, G. Retrieved from [link] TEDx Talks. 2009, September 29). Start with why — how great leaders inspire action | Simon Sinek | TEDxPugetSound [Video].

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The Advisor That Cares

APRIL 25, 2023

Measurement Strategy Course Spring 2023 Course Number: EDLD 5315 Course Title: Assessing Digital Learning and Instruction Contributions to learning and learning community I am giving myself a score of 97 out of 100 Crediting Core Group Members: Annababette Diemecke , Ashleigh Carter , Kristin Winzer , Patrick Rodriguez , and Valary Patterson Crediting (..)

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EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

We call them online giants, EAB, these are the Southern New Hampshires of the world who are, mostly, providing all of the services that they need for marketing and recruitment to student services, to instructional design on their own. The instructional design. Like they are certain things they really wanna keep closer to the campus.

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EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

We call them online giants, EAB, these are the Southern New Hampshires of the world who are, mostly, providing all of the services that they need for marketing and recruitment to student services, to instructional design on their own. The instructional design. Like they are certain things they really wanna keep closer to the campus.

Instruction 52

Instruction Advising Higher education Online learning 52

The Advisor That Cares

APRIL 23, 2023

Measurement Strategy Course Spring 2023 Course Number: EDLD 5315 Course Title: Assessing Digital Learning and Instruction Contributions to learning and learning community I am giving myself a score of 97 out of 100 Crediting Core Group Members: Annababette Diemecke , Ashleigh Carter , Kristin Winzer , Patrick Rodriguez , and Valary Patterson Crediting (..)

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The Advisor That Cares

JANUARY 22, 2023

Repeatedly we read about professional development attempts that were too broad and generalized to allow teachers to apply them to their specific instructional challenges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2025

Black women faculty advise twice the number of first-gen students, chair diversity committees, and cover the costs of food, books, childcare, and more so vulnerable students have a fair shot at success—tasks rarely logged in tenure dossiers. More than a century later, the barter persists. Where else do we go from here?

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The Advisor That Cares

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Soft pitch, day two. Once again, I’m letting parts of my heart slip and show with my colleagues, and no one is running away screaming in fear. It seems like everyone is really excited about some of my ideas.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 24, 2023

President Milliron shared his broad experience in leadership positions, the workings and role of a board of trustees no matter what the institution, and the ups and down of leading actual people, the backbone of any organization. Hands-On Lessons in Leadership Over the years, President Milliron found his way into many leadership positions.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 6, 2023

This is an instructive moment at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where Dr. Valerie Sheares Ashby recently assumed the role of president. Passing the Leadership Torch President Sheares Ashby took office In August 2022, succeeding UMBC's beloved, long-term president Freeman Hrabowaski. Is it the right role?

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