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How to navigate policy challenges and show support for your trans students
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Future students will need more academic support
The last several incoming classes of college students had their high school learning significantly disrupted by the pandemic, creating major student success challenges for higher education. We’ll break down why these strategies work and how institutions can apply these lessons to better support their own students.
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3 hidden retention challenges facing higher ed in 2025
As higher education enters the midpoint of the 2020s, institutions face a wide range of challenges threatening retention and student success.
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2024’s biggest student success lessons
Drawing on our research, insights from hundreds of surveyed student success leaders, and institutional partnerships, we’ve identified four key lessons and actionable strategies to help your institution meet the moment and foster student success in 2025 and beyond.
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4 tech-focused ways to build career readiness for college students
Doubts around the value of college are high, but by promoting career readiness for college students, higher education can prove its worth. Read more.
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Student readiness is this generation’s defining challenge. Solving it will require true collaboration.
Recently, colleagues across EAB (me included) have become increasingly concerned about what we perceive to be this decade’s (and perhaps this generation’s) defining challenge: academic and socioemotional readiness in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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4 steps to build better student support in higher ed
College doesn’t come with an instruction manual for students. Every decision students make along the way could impact their success. Addressing these challenges early can set them up for success.
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Student success teams are already using AI on a daily basis. Here’s what institutions need to know.
EAB set out to understand more about how student success teams are using AI in their day-to-day roles so leadership can develop stronger AI strategies.
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Three ways to connect students with financial support
To help reduce student “bounce,” our research identified three easy opportunities for warm handoffs, from advising to financial support.
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