According to the Lumina Foundation, 38% of today’s students have competing obligations and are less likely to finish college. When class registration approaches each term, this means that finding and …
Illume Implementation Process: Perspectives from an IT Project Manager
As a Civitas Learning project manager, I get the opportunity to work with colleges and universities all over the country and help them launch new technology. Our process has become …
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 …
California Community Colleges Unify at Civitas Learning Regional Workshop
Recently, a network of our California community college partners joined together for our first regional workshop in the state. Since we first established relationships in the California educational landscape, partners …
Tacoma Community College: Single Nudge Results in 42% Increase in Re-Enrollment
Tacoma Community College (TCC) serves more than 13,000 students in Pierce County, Washington through more than 60 transfer programs of study and 46 professional/technical degree programs. The college has outlined …
Taking Action with Confidence
In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the power of our predictions to detect persistence risk and showed you how these predictive models were detecting, on average, 82 …
Trusting the Predictions
One of the questions often asked by Civitas Learning partners is, “How do I know I can trust a prediction and be confident in taking action?” This is an extremely …
Montgomery County Community College – From Insight to Action
As a Leader College with Achieving the Dream, Montgomery County Community College has immersed itself in data-informed initiatives for several years. It was also among the earlier joiners to the …
The Power of Precision in Outreach
The higher education landscape is rife with student success initiatives. Given our shared propensity and commitment to want to see all students succeed, we’ve tended to extend ourselves with initiatives …