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Sustainable student success strategies for higher ed leaders

Three college presidents share four lessons for building a sustainable student success model through connected support and real-time…
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What's changed after the new FAFSA? One enrollment leader's biggest lessons

Learn how enrollment leaders can strengthen FAFSA follow-up, improve affordability conversations, and keep students engaged through today's evolving…
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How one university used AI to build trust in financial scenario planning

Discover how the New Jersey Institute of Technology built an AI-enabled financial scenario planning simulator for campus stakeholders.
Higher Education Strategy Blog
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6 trends we're watching after the end of Grad PLUS

The end of Grad PLUS is reshaping graduate enrollment. Explore six key trends in borrowing, scholarships, private loans,…
Adult Education Blog

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  • Data & Analytics Blog

    What campus IT can learn from Uber, Lyft, and Google Maps

    Rather than have central IT play catch-up to campus demands, integration must be a campus-wide strategic priority to harness data across silos. One approach, API-led integration, is already reaping rewards in higher education.

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  • Student Success Blog

    3 strategies to engage faculty in your student success initiatives

    I can’t tell you how many times a provost has asked me, “But what do I do about my faculty?” as they are thinking about rolling out a new student success initiative. Frankly, it’s a fair question. Despite all the investments we’ve made in student success over the past few years, few campuses have fully engaged their faculty when reorganizing to better support students. It doesn’t have to be this way, and we are beginning to see a change.

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  • Community College Blog

    How three simple community college onboarding changes turned into $70K

    At Danville Community College, leaders uncovered three barriers facing students upon entry, and worked with EAB to streamline the student experience. The result? An increase in applicant-to-enrollee conversion in the first semester alone, resulting in nearly $70K in additional revenue—just from better front-end processes.

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  • Student Success Blog

    How one advising leader saw a 600% increase in student responses

    Words surrounding email performance—like “open rates,” “clickthrough rates,” and “conversion rates”—are not part of most academics’ vocabulary. But digital marketing best practices can provide measurable value to your student communications.

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  • Community College Blog

    Confessions of a community college secret shopper

    In coordination with EAB members across the country, our research team conducted ‘secret shopping’ exercises at colleges in 25 states and catalogued over 800 hours observing and role-playing the new student experience.

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  • Student Success Blog

    What success means to your students, in their own words

    EAB researchers went directly to over 200 students and asked how they conceive of success. Their answers surprised, delighted, and moved us—and helped us focus our research and development agenda for the upcoming year.

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  • Student Success Blog

    The evolution of student success

    How did we arrive at today's complex definition of student success? Our experts borrowed principles from evolutionary biology to examine how far student success has come, as well as where it might go in the future.

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  • Student Success Blog

    The false tradeoff between academic rigor and course pass rates

    See four proven approaches to working with faculty and academic departments to redesign high-DFW courses while maintaining or even strengthening their academic rigor.

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  • Student Success Blog

    3 ways to make advising experiences more meaningful for disengaged students

    Students who develop a relationship with a campus advisor are more likely to persist than students who don't, but students don't always know how advisors can help them. Learn three strategies to make advising more about holistic support and self-direction rather than transactional questions.

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