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Student Success Blog
Summer to-do list for behavioral intervention teams
This four-item checklist will help you evaluate your campus BIT.
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Student Success Blog
Want to retain more students? Process map the student experience to find hidden pain points
In this post, we highlight reactions to some of the unintentional barriers to completion that colleges put in front of the student experience.
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What we can learn from Guided Pathways skeptics
Behind the scenes, many college leaders express feelings of anxiety about implementing an ambitious new model for student success on their campuses that they felt ill-prepared to execute, or at least execute well.
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Student Success Blog
Data literacy and student success
There is a connection between data literacy and student success by way of the faculty and staff. In my work with members of EAB’s Student Success Collaborative, data literacy has come up time and again as one of the biggest barriers to their vision of a data-enabled campus, especially when it comes to decision-making to promote student outcomes.
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Community College Blog
Why federal financial aid isn’t enough for college students
What’s more personal than money? The dollar bill, dinero, dough, or green—no matter what you call it, money (or the lack of it) can make your life great, manageable, or downright tough. As one who has experienced the highs and lows of cash, I’ve seen how finances can cause people to withdraw from life or, on the flipside, find creative ways to get the resources they need.
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Student Success Blog
How does a four year degree become a six-and-a-half year degree?
It’s no secret that college costs a lot. One good way to help minimize the expense is to do everything in our power to shorten the total time it takes for students to get a degree. We might not have much latitude to reduce the price of a year’s tuition, but we can absolutely do more to control the total amount that an individual student pays by reducing unnecessary delays and roadblocks along the path to getting a degree.
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Student Success Blog
6 common barriers to using data for student success management
Across conversations with a diverse group of student success leaders this winter, it became clear that people and process are at the heart of the challenge. Even the perfect data tool won’t make an impact if the people and the organizational environment aren’t right. We heard the following framework emerge: Six key ingredients that must be in place for each individual to be an active and effective user of student data.
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Higher Education Strategy Blog
A primer on public-private partnerships
A public-private partnership can be a new way to leverage alternative finance and delivery models in support of your school's broader mission, including addressing deferred maintenance and modernization needs.
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Student Success Blog
4 things Pokémon GO taught me about student success
My love of catching ‘em all evolved into a fascination more aligned with my professional interests as a user experience designer: how can virtual “hooks” create new behaviors? After all, if the emergence of cartoon animals on a map could get me on a walk every day, surely there are mechanisms to instill “success habits” in our students. Here’s what I learned.
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