A complicated question — and a quick answer. It depends. We all know this — yet, we keep looking for the silver bullet to solve our student success challenges. The …
New Report: A Review of Student Success Initiatives
The landscape in higher ed is changing. Today more than ever before, institutions are serving increasingly diverse students, each with unique needs — and doing it with less money. With …
Three Takeaways from Leadership Summit
At our Leadership Summits in Arizona and New York last week, we gathered dozens of presidents, provosts, vice presidents, and student success champions who are driving strategic decisions on how …
5 Questions with University of Missouri-Kansas City: Measuring the Impact of Supplemental Instruction on Persistence
Even though UMKC was seeing 1-2% bumps in overall retention, outcomes were not increasing for underrepresented minorities who are central to the school’s mission. We spoke with Barbara A. Bichelmeyer, …
University of Missouri-Kansas City: Impact Analysis Informing Decisions to Maximize the Efficacy & ROI of Supplemental Instruction
One of the hardest things institutions try to do is to stop engaging in some of the practices that have long been part of our culture and our history — …
Five Things Leaders Should Ask of Their Institutional Data
A strong data infrastructure and culture is critical to navigating today’s challenges in higher education. Just this year, a number of books have come out offering guidance on how to …
How Systems of Intelligence Enable Institutions to Learn Faster, Achieve Outcomes
Technology and data have transformed higher education’s ability to address today’s challenges and capitalize on opportunities to use signals from their own student data to provide the differentiated and personalized …
University of Washington Tacoma: How We Stopped Over Analyzing and Started Acting
Like the stories we tell around campfires, the stories we tell about our students have become mythic, exaggerated, and many are no longer true. Often, our students become metaphors for …
Integrating the Civitas Learning Platform with Salesforce
Northern Arizona University aims to increase six-year graduation rates to 57.5 percent and retention to 80 percent by 2025. “We believe student success is everyone’s responsibility,” said Margot Saltonstall, director …