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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Despite her vice president title, her role had morphed into a mix of event planning and student affairs tasks, far removed from the strategic DEI leadership she had envisioned. Engaging with these communities helps CDOs stay informed about best practices, gain new insights, and find solace in shared experiences.

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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. Academic leadership: Developing a pipeline of leaders for academic positions, including department chairs, deans, and academic program directors.

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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 Strategy: Transition to a case management model that offers students proactive guidance and access to resources, and engages faculty to see a complete picture of their academic journey.

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Civitas Learning

MARCH 20, 2025

The Strategy: An integrated platform with real-time, actionable insights allows for stronger student support and coordinated outreach especially when time is critical in the case of an emergency. To reverse the decline in student retention, they needed a scalable, proactive approach to address the factors influencing student success.

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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. To address this, ACC partnered with Civitas Learning and took a collaborative approach, engaging faculty, advisors, and student success staff from the beginning.

Advising 66

Advising Collaboration Student success Success 66

Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

MARCH 2, 2017

Think of them as being like the informal “hallway conversations” that are a regular occurrence on a campus. It’s not the single engagement event that leads to success, it’s the whole of everything that comes together to lead a student from admission to graduation. Retention – Proactive and Triage.

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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 Strategy: Transition to a case management model that offers students proactive guidance and access to resources, and engages faculty to see a complete picture of their academic journey.

Faculty 52

Faculty Community college Advising Case manager 52

Timely MD

OCTOBER 12, 2023

For TCC, focusing on student well-being is central to a broader strategy to boost engagement, retention, and completion figures. Expand access to mental health services One of the first steps community college leaders can take to support student mental health is to expand access to mental health services on campus.

Mental health 98

Mental health Community college Case manager Literacy 98

EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Make sure your recruiters and admissions staff are armed with accurate print or digital materials about your campus’ available groups, and that there is a good contact available if a prospect wants more information. You can also have a member of these programs talk to students during tours, open houses, and student organization fairs.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more. Many tackled improving student success, retention, and equity at their institutions, while others focused on budget models and streamlining administrative processes.

Retention 52

Retention Higher education Student success Equity 52

EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

A Gallup survey in fall 2021 revealed that two-thirds of community college students and an eye-popping three-fourths of bachelor’s degree students had considered leaving school in the previous six months due to emotional stress. K-12 students are experiencing unprecedent levels of mental and emotional distress.

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Mental health Student success Success Students 75

EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

The goal was to map out what the ‘typical’ student goes through from admission to graduation, what actions are they being asked to take, and how our various areas of the institution interact with them. A core team was formed that included the leadership of key offices: Student Affairs, Admissions, and OIT.

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Students Higher education Student affairs Retention 52

Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The assessment plan for 2021’s program will include a check-in with participants at the midpoint and end of their first academic year at Ryerson, designed to inform the impact of Get Ryerson Ready on student persistence and retention. She has been supporting successful student transitions into higher education since 1994.

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Student affairs Curriculum Online learning Faculty 52

EAB

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Effective stewardship and acknowledging donors’ impact fosters loyalty and is vital to donor retention and annual giving success. Additionally, data analytics have become pivotal, offering insights into donor behavior and preferences, allowing for personalized, targeted fundraising efforts that enhance donor retention and acquisition.

Higher education 59

Higher education Retention Literacy Collaboration 59

EAB

AUGUST 7, 2023

IT Strategy Decentralized IT infrastructure, data management, and a patchwork of point integrations across applications and infrastructure put many institutions at risk of serious cybersecurity incidents, while also making it difficult if not impossible to make data-informed decisions.

Mental health 52

Mental health Higher education Adult education Retention 52

Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

DECEMBER 13, 2016

From the days of old when punch cards held reams of research to the present day when information is stored in data-rich, mobile accessible clouds, the student experience is directly connected to an institution’s technology. Student Information Systems and Predictive Analytics. Social Media.

Literacy 52

Literacy Database Students Higher education 52

The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 15, 2023

He shared some examples of those projects: "We are doing a budget reassign, a complete reorganization and reimagination of our student enrollment services, retention services, student success units. You cannot just wait until the next chancellor comes along to keep them moving."

Leadership 84

Leadership Higher education Advising University 84

Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Many advisors and student success professionals feel overwhelmed, overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated by their institutions. Eighty-four percent of student affairs professionals say stress and crisis management lead to burnout. Access to comprehensive data is essential to serving students who need it most.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Despite earning a biochemistry degree at Lamar University with parental expectations of medical school, Doman found his true calling in student affairs. Working in the student union as an undergraduate led to leadership roles, eventually guiding him toward a career in higher education administration.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Building that sense of belonging is important throughout the entire student life cycle. However, our experts discuss four moments in particular when making a positive connection and drawing that student in is especially critical for retention. Give these folks a listen and enjoy. I think now that's a little bit more in question.

Mentoring 52

Mentoring Retention Mental health Faculty 52

Blackboard Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Anne: For us, Student Affairs was most involved day to day, making sure everything was lined up before implementation and talked to students throughout the process. How is the one-stop operation helping to provide an education and leading students to completing their programs? We’ve made great strides as an institution.

Student services 52

Student services Students Financial aid Student success 52

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. & Alexander, L.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

HACU provides student scholarships, internships, retention and advancement programs, as well as career development opportunities for educators. Parham, who began his presidency at CSUDH in 2018, is a veteran leader in higher education — he previously served as vice chancellor for student affairs at UC Irvine.

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