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The Starfish platform brings insight to student data and allows institutions to take action and serve students proactively. It removes complicated redundancies and barriers to modernize campuses and make student intervention easy and integrated. Starfish connects each campus to its students—providing intentional just-in-time intervention and cohort management throughout their journey. Our technology and services enable you to become student-ready, scale student support, and measure the completion results.

As a Starfish partner, you are part of the Student Success Collaborative, which means access to a close-knit community of peers, decades of research, an EAB Strategic Leader dedicated to your success, events designed to share best practices, and a detailed Help Center filled with customizable toolkits and guides. A full list of upcoming events can be viewed in the Events tab of the partners–only Starfish Community, an active online networking space. Please reach out to your Strategic Leader or [email protected] with any other questions.

Upcoming Events

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Office Hours

Starfish New Administrator Onboarding

Onboarding series for Starfish administrators. Designed to provide new Tenant Admins (App Admins) foundational knowledge about Starfish administration, and tools available to assist them. The series will include an overview of the EAB Starfish teams, an introduction to the Community, and the resources available online to support their continued learning.
Roundtable

Strategy Hour

The Strategy Hour aims to guide your focus to strategies that promote student success and Starfish adoption for your institution. Each month, a different student success strategy based on academic calendar timing and relevant themes/trends will be highlighted
Office Hours

Starfish Office Hours

Starfish Office Hours provides the opportunity for tenant administrators to connect with peers from other institutions and the consultants on the Services team. During office hours, admins discuss platform questions and share ideas related to adoption, promotion, and feature configuration.
Office Hours

Starfish Strategic Analytics 101 Webinar Series

Partner institutions that have successfully completed feature implementation and are working towards campus adoption. Starting with the identification of the courses and student populations that are influencing retention/graduation rates and learning how the Strategic Analytic dashboards can support specific themes such as DEI, re-enrollment, and other strategic institutional efforts.
Roundtable

Scaling an EAB Implementation with a Collaborative Administration Model

Over the course of their partnership, Pennsylvania State University's Starfish instance has undergone an evolution from being a baseline tool for academic advisors to being the student success platform that empowers the work of multiple functional areas that support students. Penn State has embraced a highly collaborative approach to leverage Starfish across their multicampus institutions. In this session, campus leaders will share strategies to creatively and sustainably scale a student success technology implementation.
Roundtable

Applauding Institutional Successes: Starfish Wins

Join us to hear from other Starfish institutions about their wins and lessons learned from AY23-24. There will also be time to reflect on your own wins, and helpful tips for understanding and sharing the impact of your work across campus.

Research and Insights

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Insight Paper

Ahead of the Curve: Navigating 10 Key Imperatives for Community Colleges Across the Next Decade

Unlock insights and resources on key imperatives for community colleges such as evolving higher ed perceptions and student…
Navigate360
Insight Paper

Supporting Gen P: Understanding the Next Generation of Community College Learners

We’ve uncovered six distinguishing traits of prospective community college students that can help leaders understand how to best…
Navigate360
Infographic

Student Success in the 2020s: 30 Priorities

Higher ed’s future will be written by how we respond to three trends: the diversification and shrinking of…
Infographic

Student Outreach Campaign Ideas

Targeted advising campaigns are an effective way to proactively target key student populations with personalized communication and intervention.
Navigate360
Resource Center

The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Resource Center

EAB's DEIJ Resource Center brings together our vast library of best-practice DEIJ research, tools, and insights dedicated to…
Strategic Advisory Services
Insight Paper

Three Quick Wins for Student Mental Health and Wellness

Discover three “quick win” ideas for adapting student success technology to support a broader range of student needs.
Navigate360
Tool

Student Success Annual Calendar

Use the resources provided on this page to see activities that student success partners are often focused on…
Navigate360
Infographic

The Evolution of Student Success Metrics

This infographic explores how the way we define and measure student success has changed over time—and what to…
Navigate360
Resource Center

Employee Recruitment and Retention Resource Center

Amid record-setting employee turnover and disengagement, higher ed leadership teams have little choice but to rethink how they…
Strategic Advisory Services
Blog

4 ways to bridge the gap in your student mental health services

Here are four tips for leaders who want to improve and extend their mental health services without hiring…
Student Success Blog
Blog

What is Guided Pathways—and is it still worth the hype?

Nearly 10 years after the term became ubiquitous, we provide a refresher on what Guided Pathways is, why…
Community College Blog
Blog

How can colleges prepare Gen Z for the workforce?

American colleges and universities are currently filled with the most diverse generation in U.S. history—Gen Z. But it’s…
Student Success Blog