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 …
Dr. Linda Baer on Leadership and Building Organizational Capacity for Analytics: National Advisory Board Conversation Series
The Civitas Learning National Advisory Board is comprised of researchers, association leaders, and executives whose expertise has influenced higher education policy and practice across the United States and around 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 …
Journeys of Transformation: Dr. Marcia Ballinger on Moving Toward a ‘Student-Ready’ College
Over the last ten years, Lorain County Community College (LCCC) leaders—administrative, faculty, staff and student—have rolled up their sleeves and worked hard on a series of large-scale strategic initiatives. From …
Mark Milliron and Chris Hester on What Higher Ed Can Learn From Healthcare
Higher education isn’t the only industry leaning into the power of predictive analytics to improve the customer experience. In the most recent installment of Catalytic Conversations, Mark Milliron chats with …
Some Student Success Initiatives Aren’t Working (Here’s How to Make Sure Yours Are)
It’s no secret that higher ed is changing. With 74% of students now considered “non-traditional” (U.S. Department of Education), meeting students’ unique needs is essential. Yet spending per student has …
5 Questions with Monroe Community College: Quantifying the Impact of Academic Support Programs
As operating costs per FTE increased by 36% for Monroe Community College, retention remained flat. Expensive initiatives designed to keep students in school didn’t seem to be having the desired …
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, …
Monroe Community College: How Clarity About What’s Working Has Changed Our Conversations
When we set this year’s goal to increase term to term persistence by 3 percent and our fall to fall retention rate by 2 percent, we understood that step one …
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 — …
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