Top 3 Takeaways on The Cost of Status Quo
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome can feel a bit maddening, can’t it? Sometimes, student success work can feel like we’re running in a hamster wheel, doing as...
View ArticleConnecting the Civitas: Highlights from the Illume Workshop in Austin, TX
Earlier this month, student success champions and Illume power users came together at Civitas Learning headquarters in Austin, Texas for the spring Illume Workshop: Data-Inspired Strategies for...
View ArticleSome Student Success Initiatives Aren’t Working (Here’s How to Make Sure...
It’s no secret that higher ed is changing. With 74% of students now considered “non-traditional” (U.S. Department of Education), meeting students’ unique needs is essential. Yet spending per student...
View ArticleFrom Accountability to Care: Analytics for Personalized Student Support
We've witnessed a gradual but radical shift in higher education's approach to data over the last 15 years -- from a culture of accountability to a culture of care. In the most recent installment of...
View ArticleThree Takeaways from Leadership Summit
At our Leadership Summits in Arizona and New York last week, we gathered dozens of presidents, provosts, vice presidents, and student success champions who are driving strategic decisions on how we...
View ArticleMark Milliron and Chris Hester on What Higher Ed Can Learn From Healthcare
Higher education isn’t the only industry leaning into the power of predictive analytics to improve the customer experience. In the most recent installment of Catalytic Conversations, Mark Milliron...
View ArticleNew Report: A Review of Student Success Initiatives
The landscape in higher ed is changing. Today more than ever before, institutions are serving increasingly diverse students, each with unique needs — and doing it with less money. With limited...
View ArticleWhat Helps Our Students Most?
A complicated question -- and a quick answer. It depends. We all know this -- yet, we keep looking for the silver bullet to solve our student success challenges. The reality is -- there is no one...
View ArticleAn Early Alert About Early Alerts …
With the largest annual U.S. gathering of academic advisors happening next week at NACADA, many of us have our minds on the innovations and practices that will transform the advisor-student...
View ArticleBeing Efficient vs. Being Effective
My efforts to get to the 2019 NACADA Annual Conference reminded me of the journey faced by college students across the country... I made sure my bag was packed. My alarm was set at 3:15 am to catch a...
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