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What is a Student Success Management System?

Learn more about the Student Success Management System (SSMS), a comprehensive technology that links administrators, faculty, staff, and advisors in a coordinated care network to support students from enrollment to graduation and beyond.

Five things campus leaders need to know about integration

Without accurate, meaningful, actionable data moving between campus IT systems, their utility is drastically reduced. To reframe integration as a competitive differentiator rather than an inescapable cost, IT leaders should make five integration facts clear on their campus.

Design an early alert system faculty will actually use

Whether designing your new early alert system or evaluating your current system, there are guidelines to follow to help your institution improve its use of early alert systems.

Summer to-do list for behavioral intervention teams

This four-item checklist will help you evaluate your campus BIT.

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.

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.

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.

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.