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 — …
Resources to Enable Transformational Student Outreach
You probably already send lots of communications to your students throughout the year. But, what is the nature of those communications? We have found that institutions have flexed their muscle …
Increase Engagement by Sending Nudges From Someone Your Students Know and Trust
A great way to measure the success of your nudge campaign is to review how students have engaged with the messages you’ve sent. Engagement metrics available via Illume, including open …
Summit 2017 Session Flashback: Using a Student Success Intelligence Platform to Move the Needle
Vague institutional goals can yield unclear student success outcomes. This was not the case for DeVry University and University of South Florida. These institutions had clearly defined vision for what …
Focusing on Outcomes
The idea of nudging is everywhere these days, but don’t be fooled: not all nudges are created equal. If the goal is improved outcomes, precision matters. In part 1 and …
Starting Strong: Texas State University Case Study
At Texas State University, freshmen enrollments have increased by 8 percent between 2014 and 2016. This year, they welcomed more than 6,000 first-year students to campus. Enrollment and registration staff …
Initiative Impact Analysis for Institutional Researchers
At the recent AIR Forum event, Civitas Learning’s Chief Data Scientist, Dave Kil, was joined by Montgomery County Community College’s Executive Director of Institutional Research, David Kowalski, on a panel …
Del Mar College Boosts Graduates by 34 Percent
Del Mar College is celebrating this graduation season with a stellar win as they catapulted past a 5 percent goal to increase graduation applications, and attained a 34 percent graduation …