Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

He noted that the founding documents of most colleges and universities list economic mobility as an important goal. A lot of the time, she said, it is viewed in terms of students moving away from their home communities, but in reality, a lot of students feel driven to stay.

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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. 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.

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Kristin Clark, Chancellor, West Hills Community College District We sat down with Dr. Kristin Clark, Chancellor at West Hills Community College District, for advice on re-energizing teams around technologies to maximize the impact of student success strategies. Document everything. Lean on your technology vendor.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 9, 2025

At Civitas Learning, were continually evolving our platform to better support student success teams. Now available in the Civitas Learning Student Impact Platform, AI Notetaker captures and summarizes student-advisor conversations in real time, allowing advisors to stay focused on the studentnot on the keyboard.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Transparent and Accessible Financial Aid Process: Clear Communication: Provide families with clear and concise information about the financial aid process, including deadlines, required documentation, and eligibility criteria. Simplified Application: Streamline the financial aid application process to minimize the burden on families.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Curriculum Alongside wraparound services and culturally competent faculty and staff, what’s taught in the classroom is also vital to bolstering student success, Chang says. In particular, courses wherein the students can “see themselves” and learn more about their communities are potent in making a difference, he says.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 13, 2023

Student success has always been a primary goal of higher education institutions. With unprecedented demographic and social changes, colleges and universities now face even more pressure to develop student success models that help students thrive academically and help institutions thrive financially.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 11, 2024

Once students enroll and begin classes, an institution’s work is far from over. Effective communication, guidance, and resources are foundational to an effective student success strategy. Every effort matters to keep students enrolled and persisting to graduation. Read the Blog 2.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

Guided pathways prompted a shift from a generalist advising model to a specialist-driven one, helping students stay on track and ensuring advising interactions led to improved student outcomes. Engaged Faculty It can be exceptionally hard for institutions of any size to engage faculty in student success efforts.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 5, 2025

Discussions on fostering diversity, equity, and belonging emphasized the importance of inclusive school communities and the impact of policy decisions on student success. Leadership development and faculty retention were also central themes, with speakers sharing best practices for cultivating strong, sustainable school communities.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The 4 most common barriers to higher ed data and analytics success. The survey results made clear that leaders consider data critical to the most fundamental priorities at their institutions, such as enrollment, retention, student success. Results from our recent survey of higher ed leaders. Read the report.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 23, 2024

While this strategy appears to be a good way to ensure students stay on track to graduate, it has decreased student engagement. When institutions empower students to take ownership of their planning, with advisors available for guidance, student success significantly increases.

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EAB

AUGUST 1, 2023

Blogs 4 Things You Need for a Successful Graduate Enrollment Management Plan My colleagues at EAB have conducted several surveys to learn about the state of graduate enrollment management over the past few months, and the results have been revealing. A great graduate enrollment management plan is a living document reviewed on a regular basis.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 20, 2023

The panel explored what's possible with the technology and shared success stories. The potential of this is allowing us to have those deep-dive, beautiful, supportive, higher ed social work conversations with students, eliminating some of the simpler questions and helping them be more successful in all areas."

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COE

JANUARY 7, 2024

Empowering Excellence: A TRIO Program’s Journey to Streamlined Success with empower January 7, 2024 — by Terrance L. empower showcased the application online, highlighting mandatory fields and allowing document uploads. It handles applications and secondary documentation seamlessly.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 26, 2024

Guided by a mission centered on student success—”every student, every day”—Northwest is committed to supporting the diverse goals of its 9,664 enrolled students on their academic journey. I can focus more on what will happen in the future than just focusing on a given semester.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As we approach our ten-year anniversary of accelerating student success innovation across higher education to drive social and economic mobility nationwide, I am grateful and humbled that this movement has expanded and evolved to inspire so many institutions and student success leaders beyond the UIA.

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EAB

MAY 22, 2023

Email scheduling : Select the email frequency and recipients for dashboard delivery via PDF or Excel documents. The Success and Retention Opportunities Accelerator empowers users with student success analytics to improve student success outcomes through interventions, policy changes, and other initiatives.

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Timely MD

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Effective, accessible, and equitable mental health care remains essential to student success. Specifically, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has proven to be a successful approach for managing both depression and anxiety, often providing better outcomes than medication alone.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Curriculum Alongside wraparound services and culturally competent faculty and staff, what’s taught in the classroom is also vital to bolstering student success, Chang says. In particular, courses wherein the students can “see themselves” and learn more about their communities are potent in making a difference, he says.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

Guided pathways prompted a shift from a generalist advising model to a specialist-driven one, helping students stay on track and ensuring advising interactions led to improved student outcomes. Engaged Faculty It can be exceptionally hard for institutions of any size to engage faculty in student success efforts.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As we approach our ten-year anniversary of accelerating student success innovation across higher education to drive social and economic mobility nationwide, I am grateful and humbled that this movement has expanded and evolved to inspire so many institutions and student success leaders beyond the UIA.

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EAB

AUGUST 28, 2023

These phrases show up so often in strategic plans because the plan writers are more focused on producing a document that no one will object to rather than proposing an actual strategy. I often ask, how will you prioritize your limited resources to have a real impact in those areas that are most urgent or important for your community?

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

It has been well established that Academic Advisement services have a positive impact on student success and retention, but the structures and approaches vary widely across institutions and at times, even within an institution. The following steps were taken to build this model for implementation in Fall 2023.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

The Challenge: Confronted with plateaued student outcomes, change was needed to assess the complete student picture and have the right tools to support them holistically. Its 5,468 enrolled students come from a diverse population surrounding Broome County and extends throughout New York.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

She said she spent 15 years writing her book “The Warmth of Other Suns,” documenting stories about the 20th-century migration of 6 million Black Americans away from the Jim Crow South. “My mission,” she said, “has been to use the power of language and narrative to change the way we see ourselves and our country.”

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EAB

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In my role, I work with leadership teams to help them build a culture of dynamic strategy focused on rigorous scenario planning, differentiation around evolving student expectations, and the ability to revise priorities and reallocate resources in a quickly changing market. Adult learners and strategies for success. WATCH THE WEBINAR.

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Believe in Students

APRIL 1, 2024

In 2020, the pandemic helped shed light on the issues we have long known are true: the increase in the price of college for students and the accompanying rise in basic needs insecurity for today’s students is a serious threat to the long-term success of our higher education system.

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Student Research Foundation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

If you teach first-generation students who are bound for college – or if you are a first-generation student or the parent of one – you will want to read Bridging the Gap: How can emerging technology chart pathways to completion for first-generation students?, New Report Suggests New Ways to Use Data to Build Student Success.

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NACAC's Admitted

AUGUST 10, 2023

EqRC will address the underpinnings and implications of test-optional admission, focusing on the student perspective and experience, as well as other admission practices as they intersect with the experiences of historically excluded students.

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Scholarship America

AUGUST 11, 2023

Arleen was the only one in her household who understood English, so she ended up translating documents for her parents and helping her siblings with their English homework. Arleen Alcaraz-Cano is the eldest daughter of Mexican immigrants and faced unimaginable challenges as a teenager. The pandemic was another devastating hit.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

What data does the student success department need to reach the students who would benefit most from their help? Action Items Set the stage for success If your institution has not yet formed a data governance committee, start now. How can better data management equip admissions counselors to perform their work better?

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COE

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Schedule a demo empower ’ s individual student services tracking goes beyond grades and testing, providing insights into financial aid, application status, and other crucial data. Recording notes about our students is now a breeze, ensuring that every counseling session and important detail is documented.

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EAB

AUGUST 7, 2023

However, many leadership teams struggle to define what makes their institution unique, let alone communicate a clear message that helps a prospective student choose their institution over another. Many students will struggle even more if they must overcome a multitude of administrative and financial hurdles to progress toward graduation.

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EAB

DECEMBER 2, 2022

At many community colleges, prospective students must take several tedious steps to complete the enrollment process. For example, students may be asked to track down official high school transcripts, complete 3-4 hours’ worth of placement testing, or upload sensitive documents.

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EAB

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Mental health challenges among Gen Z students have been well documented. As those students matriculate into our graduate and adult education programs, we will need resources in place to support them. Marketers will need to understand mental health drivers and message that in student outreach.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 4, 2023

Those moments differentiate what your success is going to be, and if you can rebound from those issues, you're going to be way more successful in the long run. There are a thousand student success strategies. And tech integration is rarely seamless: "With any new technology or innovation, you're going to mess it up.

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