Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Furman’s cohort – LCC1 – will facilitate faculty training in values of equity, social justice, and inclusive pedagogy; elevate student voices; improve the student experience; and engage faculty, staff, and students in making sustainable changes to introductory course curriculum.

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EAB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

2 programs that facilitate positive mental health conversations among Black men. By simulating difficult discussions, engaging with community partners, and understanding signs of depression, students will be better equipped to support each other during times of crisis and more likely to value mental health. August 9, 2022. May 4, 2021.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Civitas Learning’s Texas Leadership Workshop recently brought together leaders from ten different institutions across Texas and beyond to discuss student success strategies for higher education. The traditional one-size-fits-all approach is no longer keeping up with the complex needs of today’s diverse student population.

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Close the Gap Foundation

APRIL 13, 2022

Along the foundation's journey to serve FGLI students with empathy and care, forming the BoE originated as a method for Close the Gap Foundation to enhance the mentor training process for its programs, which it successfully achieved through interactive workshops, educator panel discussions, and Q&A sessions on how to mentor with empathy.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Like many higher education institutions, DeVry is always working to improve student engagement, provide awareness of valuable student success resources, encourage the adoption of these success resources, and provide the necessary support around the clock when their students need it.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2023

Rindy and his colleagues and the five pillars they focus on throughout a student’s higher education journey, they can deliver on the promise of student success. 5:22] – One part of the strategic plan is the promise that students will be successful and how they make sure they can be. [6:46]

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Challenge: Administrators and staff lacked the real-time information necessary to reach struggling students before it was too late. The Strategy: Empower success teams to use institution-specific analytics and insights to uncover barriers faster and connect students to the most beneficial support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

I'm a former foster child, and I'm a student who struggled with food insecurities and housing insecurities, and I'm a first-generation college student, but I went to Sac State and it was an environment where I had mentors and people who supported me, and programs and services that I benefited from,” Wood said in an interview with Diverse.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 8, 2023

The widely accepted belief that student success is a responsibility shared by the entire campus, rather than just traditional student services, is challenging to implement. In this step, leadership teams facilitate cross-functional collaboration by establishing alignment around a shared definition of student success.

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Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Transfer News Inside Higher Ed: The Transfer Checklist “There are many actions that people, institutions and legislatures can take to facilitate transfer student success… The following checklist gives six possible ways to increase the pipeline’s [of transfer students] flow.”

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Advising Facilitation Collaboration Student success 52

Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

But what makes some students persist to graduation and others not? In Civitas Learning’s most recent Student Success Impact Report , we examined a broad range of student success initiatives across 48 institutions. Academic advising is a bedrock of any student’s successful persistence toward graduation.

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Retention Student success Scheduling Success 85

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2023

In the days since the UNCF summit, I have had the opportunity to reflect on why the event resonated so positively and profoundly with me. As a member of the baby boomer generation, I will admit that not having a printed program and scanning bar codes required an adjustment!

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Challenge: Administrators and staff lacked the real-time information necessary to reach struggling students before it was too late. The Strategy: Empower success teams to use institution-specific analytics and insights to uncover barriers faster and connect students to the most beneficial support.

University 52

University Student success Success Collaboration 52

The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In 2023, the UIA launched its University Innovation Lab (UI Lab), an online hub and practitioner community that helps student success professionals innovate to improve outcomes for all students. Why We Need the UI Lab The UI Lab is for campus leaders and practitioners who are trying to move the needle on student success.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2023

Do you employ digital-first processes to minimize the burden of admin steps and refocus student attention on the educational experience? Do you offer your students digitally facilitated interactions to help them find their place on campus with options like student clubs, athletic teams, and peer mentorships?

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Community college Mental health Students Facilitation 52

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

We utilize this framework to analyze the use of diverse comics and graphic novels to facilitate critical conversations of bringing inclusive visual texts into the classroom. We specifically focus on gathering findings that provide successful outcomes for Black males in public schools. Hines and E.C. Fletcher (Eds.).

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Supporting Student Success

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The goal was every student would receive an access code by the 2020-21 academic year. Here are some of our successes, challenges, and the lessons learned along the way. Are you using CS for yourself or with your students? What other tools and programs do you use to support students? Mindset: The new psychology of success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 2, 2023

These questions provoked some deep uncertainty from Brianne Sanchez, the dean of student success at South Seattle College. The facilitators sped through a slide of questions for anti-racist leaders, such as “How is your institution committed to students and staff in these [minoritized] communities?” “How

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Strategy: Putting actionable insights at the fingertips of student success teams allowing them to deliver coordinated, proactive support to students throughout their academic journey. Advising staff relied on outdated data to generate piecemeal reports that only captured a small part of each student’s academic situation.

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University Advising Success Student success 87

COE

APRIL 7, 2023

that help learners from low-income backgrounds achieve upward mobility; provide student and employee success solutions to colleges and businesses; invest in education-focused innovations to improve learner outcomes; and provide information, tools and counseling to help millions of borrowers successfully repay their federal student loans.

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Grant First generation Career services Facilitation 98

Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We’ve been hard at work developing a new course demand analytics solution, refining the academic planning experience for students and advisors, and elevating the visibility we provide advising and student success teams. This approach can significantly impact student retention, resulting in 2-5% uplifts in persistence.

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EAB

JANUARY 10, 2023

The two discuss institutional barriers that had to be addressed, ways to get faculty on board, and the use of predictive analytics in facilitating proactive student outreach. EAB · Lessons Learned from a Student Retention Revamp at Syracuse. Scale your student success efforts. Transcript. Coming soon. Learn more.

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The University Innovation Alliance

JANUARY 26, 2023

The University Innovation Lab helps equity-driven student success innovators create positive change more effectively – with more clarity, collaboration, and impact. You are a strategic leader in higher ed, juggling multiple student success priorities and initiatives. Talk about a recipe for burnout! We can help.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

My team has worked with an increasing number of institutions that are seeking to re-center their student success strategies around a more holistic definition of the student experience. This summer, my friends on EAB's enrollment research team surveyed over 20,000 high school students to gather insight into recruiting Gen P.

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Mental health Student success Placement Success 52

Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

But what makes some students persist to graduation and others not? In Civitas Learning’s most recent Student Success Impact Report , we examined a broad range of student success initiatives across 48 institutions. Academic advising is a bedrock of any student’s successful persistence toward graduation.

Retention 52

Retention Student success Scheduling Success 52

COE

AUGUST 13, 2023

Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S. Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S.

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Literacy First generation Leadership Students 98

EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Facing a staff shortage and inadequate data access, Elmira needed a sustainable, user-friendly enrollment reporting system to facilitate strategic conversations before their enrollment census date. Exacerbating the problem, Elmira saw several key IT staff resign in 2021.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

He was an advocate for practices that removed barriers and also facilitated completion.” Very few students who were in remedial courses made it to a freshman or sophomore course. “Being an anti-racist is removing the barriers to everyone having similar opportunities and similar achievements. Citing the work of Dr. Ibram X.

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Low income student Community college Higher education Access 259

COE

OCTOBER 30, 2023

On Wednesday, November 8, the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) and the Center for First-generation Student Success , an initiative of NASPA and The Suder Foundation , will lead the national efforts for the seventh annual First-Generation College Celebration. WASHINGTON, D.C. —On

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First generation Students Student success Leadership 59

EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. Analytics programs are most successful when various constituents – institutional research, information technology, functional leaders, and executives – work in partnership" (6).

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The Advisor That Cares

JUNE 11, 2023

The course helps students understand university policies and procedures, including support information like success services. Advising falls within both enrollment management and student success arenas. How does it fit into a program?

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Advising Facilitation Collaboration Success 52

EAB

JANUARY 1, 2024

Regularly assess portfolio health using student, competitor, and labor market data The first step to a successful portfolio assessment is making sure your team is analyzing the right data. For many institutions, two to three years is about when you should expect to see some changes in enrollment, student success, or other metrics.

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Faculty Teaching Career services Facilitation 52

COE

MARCH 14, 2024

As the first activity of COE, once it became an incorporated organization in 1981, the annual Policy Seminar has grown into a three-part event that includes the largest convening of college access and success professionals who come to Capitol Hill exclusively to fight for the Federal TRIO Programs (TRIO).

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Education First generation Mentoring Leadership 109

COE

JUNE 30, 2023

Ruben Canedo , co-chair of the University of California Systemwide Basic Needs Committee, has been instrumental in addressing food and housing insecurity among college students. Lesia Crumpton-Young , immediate past president of Texas Southern University, has profoundly impacted higher education, particularly for marginalized students.

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Education First generation Leadership Mental health 98

COE

JULY 25, 2023

Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S. ” appeared first on Council for Opportunity in Education. Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S. ” appeared first on Council for Opportunity in Education.

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