Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

At Lakeland Community College , leaders used Course Insights to investigate performance in their First Year Experience (FYE) course. But when information is spread across multiple platforms, it slows them down and risks missing the students who need help most.

Scheduling

Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Traditional metrics, such as retention and graduation rates, don’t fully capture whether students succeed during college. SUNY Broome Community College (SUNY Broome) identified 184 students with academic warnings and financial aid concerns and launched a targeted outreach campaign. This was a key factor in their 3.7%

Students

Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

These targeted efforts helped students explore career options, clarify their goals, and make informed academic decisions. Create Spaces That Support the Whole Student It shouldn’t take a dip in retention or a crisis to recognize how vital spaces, like libraries and technology hubs, are to student success.

Success

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. By embedding strategic support into everyday workflows, ACC has built a scalable, data-informed system that delivers timely support and continues to evolve with student needs.

Advising

College Planners of America

JULY 25, 2025

Moreover, they do this cost effectively by paying an exam fee of $97 instead of the cost of college tuition for a three-credit course, which can range from $300 or so at community college to over $5,000 at top colleges. Exams scores are accepted for credit at far more colleges than any other credit-by-examination program.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Dakota Doman attended a Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) HBCU fly-in event in Washington, D.C. His experience as chief of staff at Texas Southern University gave him firsthand insight into these dynamics, informing his approach to presidential searches. in 2023, he wasnt planning to resurrect a defunct executive search firm.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2024

A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center noted that more than 76% of students who started college in the fall of 2022 returned for their second year. Done annually, the 2024 Persistence and Retention report shows the persistence rate (returning to college at any institution) rose 0.8 to 58.5%.”

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College. Felder, president of Harford Community College in Maryland, where Stout began her community college career in 1984.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

However, the Minority Male Success Initiative (MMSI), a three-year project from the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) and Watermark, an ed tech company, has offered a glimmer of hope: students who received success coaching using an online platform were 22.4% The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the trend.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

After two years of COVID-19, community college enrollment was in triage. Indian River State College (IRSC) in Fort Pierce, FL, and Coahoma Community College (CCC) in Clarksdale, MS, saw their efforts to rebuild their student populations pay off. Dr. Timothy Moore, president of Indian River State College.

Community college

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). Yet there is little research on the underrepresentation of African American community college trustees. Dr. Terry Calaway is president emeritus, Johnson County Community College (KS).

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. That sends a powerful message to students and also the faculty that they’re valued, and it has led to retention and growth.”

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Military friendly is a common phrase used by organizations to communicate an appreciation of military service members (Kirchner, et al., If your community college is struggling to have those conversations, outside facilitators can support you. Dr. Susan M. 2) Who are your military-connected learners and how do you know?

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard is set to speak during the 17th Annual National Black, Brown and College Bound (BBCB) Summit, according to organizers. For more information and to register for the event, visit bbcbsummit.org. The summit also includes a series of workshops based on themed tracks.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

As indicated by several key metrics, over the past decade underrepresented minority (URM) students have made considerable progress in retention, graduation, and persistence rates. CPE is a coordinating board that oversees Kentucky’s public universities, community colleges, and technical colleges.

Low income student

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.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

There are 116 community colleges in California. The college recognized that the campus needed a safe space for males to get together, interact and learn from each other as well as to access resources,” says Jamal Biggs, director of the QCC MRC. One thing Compton College and President [Dr.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab They’ll probably express concern, wonder why colleges aren’t mentioning this, and get confused when they find little information about affordable off-campus housing on school websites. and at the Community College of Philadelphia it is $7,500. This is a problem we can do something about.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Scott Schirmeier The new Recruitment Management module improves Navigate’s customer relationship management capabilities and simplifies recruitment/retention for schools into one platform, allowing schools to implement coordinated communications strategies for prospective students.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. Kenneth Adams, president of LaGuardia Community College. offers 28 data dashboards with insights on enrollment, grades, financial aid, retention, completion, and student demographics. Mamie Voight, president and CEO of IHEP.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Jean Petty started her community college education right out of high school and had no idea how to “do college.” She walked into the first college she attended not knowing where to start, and no one was very helpful in getting her enrolled and on a pathway. Many community college students have Petty’s experience.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

At a time of declining enrollment and retention as well as other changes to higher education due to the pandemic, the report notes that it is essential to make informed decisions on how to improve student success and completion. “If The goal is to build and sustain a culture of data and measurement for institutions and states.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2024

The accountability of those goals is held together by key performance indicators (KPIs) that create data points that inform the institution’s day-to-day operations. Dr. Mordecai Ian Brownlee is president of the Community College of Aurora in Colorado. According to the U.S.

Low income student

EAB

MARCH 10, 2023

Press Release EAB’s Navigate Platform Now Supports Student Recruitment and Retention EAB expands Navigate’s CRM capabilities to engage prospective students March 10, 2023 Tempe, Arizona (March 10, 2023) — EAB announced today an extension of its flagship student success technology, Navigate , to help colleges engage and enroll prospective students.

Retention

Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Following the institute’s collaborative sessions, leaders gained fresh perspectives on addressing issues hindering student retention and success. While all members of an institution share the goal of guiding students to timely graduation, working in isolated silos often leads to inconsistent communication and redundant service.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

On Thursday, e xperts from the National Student Cle aringhouse (NSC) joined with leaders from the community college and educational nonprofit worlds to talk about the changes ahead. Understanding these changes and their effects is going to require not only new data, but new kinds of data.

Compliance

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.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Miami Dade College (MDC), located in Miami, Florida and one of the nation’s largest Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) received the classification in 2015 and is one of a handful of community colleges across the nation to hold the designation.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

Those who returned to education overwhelmingly chose to return to public, two-year community colleges or primarily online institutions. Briscoe said institutions need to “reassess how dismantling all these things are actively affecting recruitment and retention.” “How

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

Administrative leadership: Identifying individuals with leadership potential for administrative roles, such as finance, human resources, information technology, and student affairs. She also serves on the Kansas State University Community College Leadership Program (CCLP) National Advisory Board. Roueche and Margaretta B.

Success

Timely MD

MAY 9, 2023

The 1,038 community colleges in the U.S. play an important role for students and communities, providing a quality education that prepares students for jobs or to transfer to four-year colleges and universities. The average age of a community college student is 27, and 35% of students are between the ages of 22 and 39.

Community college

EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts. EAB’s Tara Zirkel is joined by Pueblo Community College VP of Student Success, Dr. Heather Speed, to examine changes Pueblo made to boost enrollment heading into the fall semester. EAB · How Pueblo College Supercharged Yield and Retention Efforts.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. There is the pooling of knowledge,” she says.

Higher education

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.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Salcedo is the director of the Center for Community College Partnerships at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Alexander observes that many high school and community college students see no connection to the university, therefore building pathways to higher education is part of AAP’s outreach.

Success

EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

5 Tips to Recruit and Enroll Latine/x Students in Your Community College. Prospective Latine/x college students in the U.S. are the most likely to choose community college as their first step when pursuing a higher education. Spotlight: Holyoke Community College. Tip #1: Build belonging.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Information was not provided about new nursing hire recruitment. The federal government projects that more than 203,000 new registered nurse (RN) positions will be created each year from 2021 to 2031, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). The university also has an extensive onboarding process.

Faculty