Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Today’s most influential leaders recognize that student success goes beyond traditional measures like retention and graduation rates. A study of Civitas Learning partner institutions reinforces this wisdom, revealing that 39% of students experience a change in their likelihood to persist within a single term.

Retention

Student Research Foundation

DECEMBER 6, 2024

College enrollment can range anywhere from a few hundred students to over 60,000. Of course, academics is one of the most important considerations for any future college student. Consider the type of campus community and culture you want to be a part of, including any extracurricular or student groups that youd like to be a part of.

Curriculum

Symplicity

JUNE 17, 2025

Career fairs remain one of the most valuable tools in university career services, connecting hundreds of students with dozens of employers in efficient, high-energy environments.

Career services

Symplicity

JUNE 4, 2025

The traditional boundaries between Career Services and Experiential Learning offices are dissolving, and the 2025 NACE Annual Conference couldn't come at a more pivotal time.

Career services

Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

When we talk about student success, it’s easy to focus on the classroom. But even the most capable students can struggle if they don’t have access to basic resources like quiet study spaces, reliable Wi-Fi, group meeting areas, and academic support services. percentage point (PP) lift in persistence Library Resources — 5.3

Success

Civitas Learning

MARCH 13, 2025

Ensuring that students eventually graduate isnt enough to drive sustainable institutions. Higher Education must also prepare and develop students to reach their goals. A students journeyand how prepared they feel for life after collegedirectly impacts long-term success.

Retention

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. Four actionable steps to centralize and streamline student support.

Advising

Symplicity

JULY 24, 2025

Remember when career services ended with a handshake at graduation? Those days are long gone, and graduated students require support even after they leave their college or university. Today's alumni are entering a competitive job market, and they often need ongoing career resources.

Career services

Symplicity

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Symplicity convened an all-start panel of experts in career services from around the globe to discuss the impact of skills-based hiring on higher education institutions and the recruiting sector. Here are some highlights.

Career services

The College Pod

MARCH 7, 2025

Many students discover that their second or even third-choice school ends up being the perfect fit. Do they have research opportunities, internships, or career support? Look for colleges where professors are approachable, and student support is strong. What about the career services? Internships are game-changers.

Financial aid

Symplicity

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Symplicity is a global leader in supporting institutions in connect ing students with career opportunities. These capabilities empower our users to deliver more personalized experiences, optimize career services, and elevate student employability to meet the demands of today’s dynamic job market.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He spearheaded a 40 percent enrollment increase, bringing the student body to 4,000, while simultaneously launching innovative student success initiatives. One of Rich's notable achievements at CCNY was the formation of a Public Service Career Hub, which more than doubled student placement in public service internships and jobs.

Placement

Symplicity

JUNE 3, 2025

The future of career services is experiential, and we're excited to showcase exactly what that means at the 2025 NACE Annual Conference & Expo. From June 9-11 in Philadelphia, Symplicity will be at the forefront of conversations about transforming how students connect classroom learning to real-world career success.

Career services

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2023

Brown University has launched a Center for Career Exploration to better prepare students for the modern-day workforce. The center will provide personalized advising, mentoring, opportunities, and resources for various career pathways to Brown’s undergraduates, Ph.D. students, and recent graduates.

Career services

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. UNT and LaGuardia’s student centered, data-driven approaches are helping their students succeed in the classroom and beyond, offering considerable returns on their educational investment. Kenneth Adams, president of LaGuardia Community College.

Student success

Symplicity

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It is no surprise to those in higher education the continued rise in student mental health concerns. Among college students that number unfortunately follows the same trend. Among college students that number unfortunately follows the same trend. A recent National Institute of Health report found that an estimated 21.0

Mental health

Symplicity

JUNE 19, 2023

So what can career services do to give these soft skills the respect they deserve and ensure students stand out? What actually separates thriving organizations from struggling ones are the difficult-to-measure attitudes, processes and perceptions of the people who do the work…Let’s stop calling them soft. Leadership skills.”

Career services

Symplicity

AUGUST 8, 2024

For career services professionals, understanding these trends is crucial in guiding students towards successful career paths. Here are some key highlights from the report.

Career services

Symplicity

APRIL 20, 2023

As the first digitally native generation, Gen Z students have grown up with technology at their fingertips and expect a certain level of technological savvy and personalization from the organizations they interact with. To better engage with the students of today, here are four tips for career services processionals!

Career services

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

College students who graduate as English majors actually find jobs at about the same rate as those who major in other subjects, according to a recent report commissioned by the Modern Language Association (MLA). Along lines or race and ethnicity, Black and Latino graduates in the humanities typically earn less than their white counterparts.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

Deborah Santiago, CEO and co-founder of Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support and success of Latinx students in higher education. That’s why Excelencia has issued four new reports in its continuing investigation into the relationship between institutions, Latinx students, and the workforce.

Students

Symplicity

MAY 30, 2025

Dear Career Services We hope this is a resource you can share with your students as they journey into the world beyond higher education.

Career services

Symplicity

AUGUST 16, 2023

College students with disabilities face unique challenges when it comes to finding employment.

Career services

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

GEAR UP APEX includes 12 school districts and eight partnering North Carolina higher education institutions that work together to provide college and career services to middle and high school students and their families.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Lakeland Community College board members voted recently for the unexpected 66-employee cut – part-and full-time workers, janitors, career services specialists, IT techs, groundskeepers, and others – which will take effect Jan. LCC’s student population decreased "just 1%" in full-time students and 0.7%

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

"The Cohen Career Collective will be the largest career and technical training facility of its kind in the region, offering programs to prepare New Yorkers of all ages, backgrounds, and educational levels for good jobs in high-growth sectors of our local economy."

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

In the report, community college practitioners often attributed lackluster support of immigrant and refugee students to insufficient financial and staffing resources. Emily Logo Currently, almost a third of all community college students are immigrants. workforce and improving data collection on student backgrounds and progress.

Community college

Symplicity

APRIL 12, 2023

No matter the size of an institution, nor one’s resources, vying for students’ attention is always a challenge. Since the COVID-19 pandemic uprooted more traditional means of engaging students, career services staffs have had to adapt. In case you missed it, here are some highlights from our conversation.

Career services

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

These funds will give students essential skills to help employers and will enable them to build on their education and credentials to advance in the high-demand computer science industry. MassBay Community College will be offering free education and training in the areas of computers and technology to unemployed and underemployed workers.

Community college

Symplicity

MARCH 24, 2023

Higher education career services are facing unprecedented challenges in today's rapidly changing job market. As the economy continues to shift towards automation, globalization, and digitalization, traditional career paths are disappearing, and new fields are emerging.

Career services

EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Blogs 5 career services to support your professional and adult learners Build these services to aid your current students and stand out to prospects Career services are going to be especially important to your graduate and adult students in 2024.

Career services

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

GCU, located in New Jersey, also has women in other school leadership positions as well, such as director of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; director of career services, the director of financial aid, and the director of global education. Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington, D.C.,

Leadership

EAB

JANUARY 12, 2023

6 ways leaders are rethinking their student affairs organizational charts in 2023. Between a pandemic, a national racial reckoning, and increasing challenges to the higher education business model, student affairs leaders have spent the past few years looking for ways to innovate and collaborate more effectively across the cabinet.

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Also, Black managers are 65% more likely to progress in their careers if they have a sponsor. Looking at creating this partnership between the Black workers/Black students and higher education and workforces to ensure that we are creating a smoother trajectory to these higher paying careers,” she said.

Mentoring

College Aid Services

MAY 2, 2024

Billion in student loan debt forgiven after an investigation by the Department Education revealed that The Art Institutes committed “pervasive and substantial misrepresentations” to prospective students about postgraduation employment rates, salaries, and career services. 317,000 borrowers will have $6.1

Career services

Symplicity

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Symplicity CSM is constantly innovating based on the career services needs of our university partners. Check out the latest updates to help provide your student job seekers more opportunities and career preparation tools than ever before.

Career services

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2023

But Black students are often left out: African Americans have been less likely to get paid internships than their white peers, and the lack of diversity in internship cohorts winds up being mirrored in executive boardrooms. They include a case study of a company that found that few Black students were applying to its internships online.

Equity