Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2025

I think things through, I get information, I prepare myself for all outcomes. While Jackson notes that lack of confidence often impedes womens path to the presidency, Whitakers approach offers a different perspective. I dont really have fears, Whitaker told The Catalyst, an independent student newspaper at Colorado College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the first 10 questions that a student encounters in the FAFSA is ‘Who is your parent or guardian and what is their income information?’ Demographic information about the recipients was not available. A plan for mainstream colleges and universities has been laid out for intentional engagement in recruitment and retention.

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Knack

JULY 23, 2025

It’s coordinated, data-informed, and scaled to meet the needs of the entire campus. A model that boosts retention, closes equity gaps, and expands access to timely academic support, without overloading staff. The result?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

The data deck also highlights concerning patterns in student retention. The Data Deck serves a dual purpose of informing the public of key trends in legal education while also providing evidence to support AccessLex Institute's ongoing work to improve access, affordability, and value in legal education," said Cochran.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Since joining ATD, Bellevue College has seen increased markers of student success and retention. Their dedication to using data-informed approaches to create meaningful opportunities for students and their communities serves as a powerful example for all institutions of higher education."

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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. This approach overwhelms advising and support teams and contributes to declining retention rates.

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Civitas Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

If the information is inaccurate, it can mean missed chances to help struggling students and lead to unnecessary spending on policies and programs that don’t work. This ultimately limits the institution’s ability to make informed decisions that actually improve outcomes.

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Student Privacy Compass

APRIL 29, 2025

Data Minimization Principles: about 12 states stress the importance of avoiding inputting PII (Personally Identifiable Information) into AI systems. These included details such as language for contractual requirements with AI vendors, data handling protocols, training programs, and clear policies on data collection, retention, and security.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2025

For instance, research shows that collaborative testing not only improves scores and reduces anxiety, but also supports long-term retention and peer learning (see Cortright et al., So how do we keep teaching as art, informed by science? 2003 ; Bloom, 2009 ). In other words, assessments that are equitable are also effective.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 3, 2025

In higher education, making timely, data-informed decisions to support students isn’t easy. The information you need is often scattered across systems, buried in static reports, or hard to translate into action. In contrast, adaptable analytics offers real-time insights tailored to an institution’s specific needs.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 7, 2025

But when information is spread across multiple platforms, it slows them down and risks missing the students who need help most. By equipping staff and faculty with a centralized platform to access and share student information, Northwest streamlined advising and made it easier to provide timely, personalized support.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 10, 2025

Subscribe: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Youtube Music | Full Transcript For many institutions, improving persistence and retention rates feels like an uphill battle, but Greenville Technical College (GTC) is proving what’s possible when data meets execution.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 24, 2025

By combining this type of barrier-removal with early alerts, personalized outreach, and centralized support, UVU has seen a measurable 3 percentage point bump in retention. “That small shift unlocked a huge opportunity to help students move forward.”

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Student Privacy Compass

JULY 23, 2024

Some platforms encourage or enable the use of student text messaging or personal social media accounts for promotion, heightening the risk of disclosing sensitive information such as phone numbers or private profiles. Have parents/guardians provided informed consent for any student-identifying information used?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

She served as principal investigator on the National Science Foundation grant focused on Evidence-Informed Practices to Improve Climate (Project EPIC) to transform departmental cultures within STEM disciplines to improve the retention and advancement of women, particularly women of color.

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Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Traditional metrics, such as retention and graduation rates, don’t fully capture whether students succeed during college. This example shows how data-informed strategies enable institutions to deliver precise, meaningful support that drives student and institutional success.

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College Planners of America

JULY 25, 2025

Among first-generation college students and those in underrepresented groups, exam-takers earning a CLEP score of 50 or higher have significantly higher retention and graduation rates than their classmates. See the Board’s CLEP College Credit Policy Search site for further information.

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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.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

By leveraging historical financial aid and student data, schools can make more informed, equitable, and strategic financial aid decisions that align with their mission and long-term sustainability. Schools can ascertain: Aid Impact on Retention Do students who receive aid remain at the school longer?

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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.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 13, 2025

Introducing the Multi-Outcome Framework: Optimize What Matters Most Colleges and universities must broaden their measures of success beyond traditional metrics such as retention and completion to remain competitive, attract top students, and enhance institutional reputation. Helping them implement more effective interventions at scale.

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Timely MD

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It’s about empowering students to make informed decisions about their money and setting them up for long-term success. This cycle ultimately impacts retention rates and graduation outcomeskey metrics for any institution. Financial literacy is more than knowing what a credit card is or how interest rates work.

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Timely MD

JUNE 6, 2025

It also helps evaluate the impact of our Success Coaching program and fosters data-informed conversations about student outcomes. Stronger retention and graduation rates: Belief in their ability keeps students on track toward degree completion. It reflects TimelyCare’s broader mission to deliver student-first, data-informed solutions.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

JULY 24, 2025

Make Data Security a Priority Aid applications contain deeply sensitive information. A well-designed, future-ready system helps reduce stress, minimize confusion, and support long-term retention. With FAA Services, routine tasks like document follow-up and appeals are managed by experts, reducing internal stress.

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Good Tutors Finder

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

They have a thorough understanding of how the dyslexic brain processes information. These multisensory methods help forge stronger connections in the dyslexic students brain, making learning more enjoyable and retention more successful. Tutors who specialize in dyslexia are not just reading specialists.

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Cal Newport

JUNE 29, 2025

“The most pronounced difference emerged in alpha band connectivity, with the Brain-only group showing significantly stronger semantic processing networks,” the researchers explain, before then adding, “the Brain-only group also demonstrated stronger occipital-to-frontal information flow.” What does this mean?

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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. Discover: Common challenges that institutions face in aligning care.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The firms didnt keep information from you they didnt know, and they didnt know to ask, because they didnt have that level of intimate knowledge of these spaces, he says of the mismatch experience that some have encountered when they were placed at institutions and found that it wasnt a good fit.

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Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

MARCH 3, 2025

Award Recipients Transfer News The Indicators of Timely Completers Colleges and universities have invested in their retention strategies to improve students completion and the cost of education by helping them complete a degree in a timely manner. A committee of past award recipients review and select the winners.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 4, 2025

Schools can monitor changes over three years, empowering them to make better long-term decisions around financial aid retention and budgeting. Almond emphasized that this isnt a one-time data pull. What This Means for Families Its not just schools that benefit from this integration.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 13, 2025

From emergency response during Hurricane Helene to long-term improvements in retention and graduation rates, Regine and Lynne share how their partnership and use of technology have strengthened the student experience at UNC Asheville. Their largest year-over-year retention increase to date.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 5, 2025

Leadership development and faculty retention were also central themes, with speakers sharing best practices for cultivating strong, sustainable school communities. “Attending NAIS Thrive 2025 was a remarkable experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2024

Done annually, the 2024 Persistence and Retention report shows the persistence rate (returning to college at any institution) rose 0.8 and the national retention rate (returning to the same institution) rose one full percentage point to 68.2%. We’re happy to share that our one-year retention has increased overall 2.3

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

Slate is a highly customizable software that automates time-consuming practices, improves communication, and de-siloes student information. James Runcie, CEO and co-founder of Ed Advancement, said he hopes Ed Advance and the HBCU Dx program shows how CRMs offer a sustainable way to improve HBCU enrollment and retention. “A

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

If a student has not attended multiple classes in a row or has not logged on the school’s learning management system in a while, the student’s success coach will be informed and have the option to check in. When we’re talking about retention for students of color, there have to be more than just check-ins,” he said.

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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.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

Though overall teacher turnover increased in districts that moved to four-day school weeks, morale and retention rates improved due to the reduced workweek, according to a new report from Keystone Policy Center. Our goal is to provide policymakers with the tools and information they need to navigate this complex issue."

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