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Here’s how to engage your alumni and facilitate lifelong learning

EAB

By staying involved with graduates and offering alumni benefits, universities can attract alumni interested in lifelong learning experiences, and easily facilitate networking opportunities between current students and alumni. And, of course, advertising alumni connections can help recruit new students. Here’s what they shared.

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Adapting Student Support and Service Delivery in a Crisis

Blackboard Blog

Now we’re sharing the steps we took as Blackboard Student Services to prepare to support our staff and partners immediately and plans to continue support in the longer term. Blackboard Student Services. Challenges Ahead.

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Best Practices to Re-Engage Community College Stop Outs

Blackboard Blog

While some of this decline is accounted for by decreased applicants and fewer new students, it’s important to note that stop-out (temporary withdrawal) students increased sharply during the pandemic.  NSCRC  reports that first year persistence for community college students starting in 2020 declined 3.5% points, to 51.6%. 

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Are the Benefits of OPM Partnerships Worth the Risk?

EAB

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. CH: There's also a situation where it's like, you know, I got an OPM relationship.

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Are OPM Partnerships Your Ticket to Online Growth?

EAB

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. CH: There's also a situation where it's like, you know, I got an OPM relationship.