Knack

APRIL 3, 2025

But one powerful and often underestimated experience that deserves more attention is peer tutoring. Not only does tutoring support academic success and retention on campusit also offers students a high-impact, skills-based experience that meaningfully enhances their resumes.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Embedded tutors in STEM courses give students immediate access to help, while support courses or refreshers address gaps in understanding and build a strong foundation for success. Requiring tutor hours where appropriate fosters consistent engagement with support systems, improving retention and academic performance.

Student success

Good Tutors Finder

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

How a Tutor Can Help a Student With Dyslexia: Empowering Success Through Specialized Support Dyslexia affects millions of students worldwide, influencing how they process language and making tasks such as reading, spelling, and writing more challenging. Fortunately, personalized tutoring offers an effective means of support.

Tutoring

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.

Retention

Knack

DECEMBER 6, 2024

While strides have been made to increase access and inclusion, persistent gaps in achievement and retention continue to disproportionately affect students from underserved backgrounds. Addressing these disparities requires more than good intentionsit demands actionable strategies that prioritize equitable support for all students.

Academic support

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.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2025

To advance retention, persistence, and specific course completion, the grant will improve the First Year Seminar, provide professional develop with a focus on culturally responsive pedagogy, integrate tutoring, peer mentoring, academic and career coaching, and target intervention in gateway courses.

Grant

Civitas Learning

APRIL 3, 2025

With a shared view of the issue, academic leaders can coordinate solutions, like adding tutoring, adjusting course availability, or offering supplemental instruction. Combined with broader strategies, this insight helped UTSA achieve a 16% increase in retention and a 14% increase in completion from 2012 to 2022.

Students

Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

assistant vice president for retention at Emory & Henry University, weighed in on what colleges and universities can do to help support underrepresented student groups to ensure they receive the care and support they need to succeed. In a Gen Ztressed webinar hosted by TimelyCare, experts Brianna Yahaya, M.S Proffitt, M.A.,

Mental health

Civitas Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Traditional metrics, such as retention and graduation rates, don’t fully capture whether students succeed during college. When institutions identify courses that present barriers to persistence, they can implement targeted interventions to provide the right support, such as supplemental instruction, tutoring, or workshops.

Students

Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

Findings from the 2025 Student Success Impact Report reinforce a powerful truth: supplemental instruction (SI), tutoring, and writing centers aren’t just add-ons—they’re foundational to a healthy student success model. Access to physical spaces like libraries and technology hubs also play a critical role.

Success

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.

Advising

Knack

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

By embedding tutoring into their academic ecosystems, these institutions are creating sustainable, student-driven support structures that enhance learning, engagement, and retention at scale.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Success coaches aren’t only concerned with academic success; they attempt to help the student as a full person and seek to connect the student with any of the school’s resources that may be helpful, from tutoring to a food pantry. When we’re talking about retention for students of color, there have to be more than just check-ins,” he said.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Also, that year the program’s retention rate of Latino students was 18% higher than the college’s general retention rate. In 2016, EAP reduced the number of courses in its course sequence, increased tutoring services and added embedded tutoring. It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

This includes working on retention strategies that emphasize information on financial aid and mental health services as well as continuing to build a sense of belonging. Another support group, the Hispanic Organization for Growth, Advancement and Retention, has focused on family engagement. She notes it helps build community.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

The goal of virtually all colleges and universities is to increase retention and completion. While performance-based funding has brought increases in retention and completion, it has not had the desired effect. If they are having trouble, get them to the right tutor. Or get them the basic needs support they need.”

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Retention efforts Morgan State is currently number one in the United States in producing Black electrical engineers and civil engineers, Wilson notes. This requires thoughtful retention efforts. Once students transition out of that first-year format, the success and retention office continues to work with them through graduation. “We

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

This can result in feelings of isolation, discrimination, and alienation, which negatively impact academic performance and retention rates. Strengthening community-based programs that proved mentoring, tutoring, and college preparatory resources can help African American men succeed academically.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

The PSSG – it was first funded in 2022 via the Consolidated Appropriations Act – recognizes and awards funds to institutions that propose to use the grant for evidence-based reforms and practices in pursuit of bolstering student participation, retention, transfer, and completion rates.

Student success

Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Following the institute’s collaborative sessions, leaders gained fresh perspectives on addressing issues hindering student retention and success. These coaches bridge success and retention efforts, aiding students in accessing campus resources and conducting exit interviews.

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, Equity, and Affordability: A Primer for Higher Education Leaders and Educators " a report produced by Whiteboard Advisors and created in partnership with the Harvard-MIT Axim Collaborative, details the ways in which AI can be used to assist colleges and universities with student support, data organization, enrollment, and retention.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students. One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu. In the last three years EPW’s fall to fall retention ranges from 93% to 96%. “I I track them in retention.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

Collaborative efforts could include tutoring programs, curriculum development, and targeted interventions designed to improve student outcomes in mathematics. Colleges and universities can also benefit greatly from sharing data regarding student performance and retention rates in STEM programs.

Mathematics

Knack

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Scaling academic support in colleges of business is a powerful strategy that not only enhances student retention and persistence to graduation but also fosters job creation for students.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We Students can go for tutoring, writing support and other things at no charge. Elliott says the retention rate for online is over 96%, which she attributes to the stellar faculty and flexibility. in management and leadership. Online, 18.1%

Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Ninth through 12th graders receive academic advancement, individualized college counseling, tutoring, essay writing guidance, SAT prep, exposure to colleges, and career exploration with some college visits. The PISTE Fencing Academy fosters the aspiration to academic excellence, which includes providing academic tutoring to participants.

Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The tutoring and academic counseling were crucial to her success. We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. That data show that the students who attend the summer bridge program build great resilience skills, and resilience leads to retention.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Although Dominican does not have graduate programs, students who show an interest in becoming nurse educators are engaged after graduation as tutors and encouraged to participate in other activities, thus setting them on the path. She says employers need to create conditions that support recruitment and retention.

Faculty

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

JANUARY 31, 2024

Related to student success, CEED has a robust center that includes tutoring, mentoring, and advocacy for students to ensure they are on the path to achievement and graduation,” adds Dr. Karen Eley Sanders, associate vice provost for College Access. “It was a matter in many cases of asking the students, ‘What do you need?’” Watford says.

Mentoring

Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

MARCH 2, 2017

Admissions professionals, academics, academic advisors, career services representatives, tutors, alumni officers, etc. Retention – Proactive and Triage. When institutions create first-year experience programs, they are creating foundations for future success and retention potential.

Retention

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

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

APRIL 23, 2024

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

Civitas Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Instead, campuses primarily tap traditional student success services like advising, academic coaching, and tutoring. By integrating the efforts of IR and Student Success, UTSA achieved a 16 percent lift in retention and a 14 percent lift in their overall four-year graduation rate. But this is a missed opportunity.

Student success

Knack

JANUARY 31, 2025

For college and university students, academic success is often measured by traditional metricsgrades, pass rates, and retention numbers. While these are important, they dont tell the full story of a students journey. One of the most valuable, yet often overlooked, indicators of success is confidence.

Success

COE

APRIL 7, 2023

Through its myriad membership services, the Council works with colleges, universities, and agencies that host federal TRIO programs that help more than 800,000 low-income students and students with disabilities each year receive college access and retention services.

Grant