Earlier this month, student success champions and Illume power users came together at Civitas Learning headquarters in Austin, Texas for the spring Illume Workshop: Data-Inspired Strategies for Building a Student …
Impact and the Move from Ingredients to Recipes in Student Success
Barb Bichelmeyer, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), and Julianna Frisch, Assistant to the President, Strategic Initiatives at Monroe Community College (MCC), have a …
Top 3 Takeaways on The Cost of Status Quo
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome can feel a bit maddening, can’t it? Sometimes, student success work can feel like we’re running in …
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 …
The Power to Learn and Improve Outcomes — Why More Colleges and Universities Are Joining The Mission
Recently the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice issued another report on housing and food insecurity faced by higher ed students. The report shines a much-needed light on the …
Closing Equity Gaps, Hitting Historic Highs in Student Outcomes, and Reaching Preeminence: Reflections on the Leadership Journey at USF
After a conversation on the student success journey of the University of South Florida (USF) with their president, Dr. Judy Genshaft, and vice president for student success, Paul Dosal, I …
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 — …
Making the Move: Anchoring Your Analytics in a Culture of Care
Big data, predictive modeling, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are all the buzz. From business to athletics to healthcare to education, more and more people are using more and more data …