Student Success Blog

Scale academic support to struggling students

Learn how supplemental instruction can help improve student performance in critical gateway courses.

Why even C students should consider taking 15 credits their first semester

Learn one essential recommendation advisors should share with all incoming students—regardless of high school academic achievement—that results in higher GPAs and higher retention rates.

Turn dual-enrollment into meaningful college preparatory programs

What is a Student Success Management System?

Student success has evolved—and so have we. 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.

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

When we began working with colleges and universities to implement our mobile advising application, Guide, one of our goals was to help our members see their institution through a student’s eyes—and the experience surprised many of them. In this post, we highlight reactions to some of the unintentional (but all too common) barriers to completion that colleges put in front of students.

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.

How does a four year degree become a six-and-a-half year degree?

It’s no secret that college costs a lot. One good way to help minimize the expense is to do everything in our power to shorten the total time it takes for students to get a degree. We might not have much latitude to reduce the price of a year’s tuition, but we can absolutely do more to control the total amount that an individual student pays by reducing unnecessary delays and roadblocks along the path to getting a degree.