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Are you prepared to recruit ‘Gen P’?
The top 5 ways prospective graduate and adult learners are finding your programs
30 Student success priorities for the 2020s
Most strategic plans fail to set useful goals. Why these mistakes make it impossible to meet institutional objectives.
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Community College Blog
How three simple community college onboarding changes turned into $70K
At Danville Community College, leaders uncovered three barriers facing students upon entry, and worked with EAB to streamline the student experience. The result? An increase in applicant-to-enrollee conversion in the first semester alone, resulting in nearly $70K in additional revenue—just from better front-end processes.
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Student Success Blog
How one advising leader saw a 600% increase in student responses
Words surrounding email performance—like “open rates,” “clickthrough rates,” and “conversion rates”—are not part of most academics’ vocabulary. But digital marketing best practices can provide measurable value to your student communications.
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Community College Blog
Confessions of a community college secret shopper
In coordination with EAB members across the country, our research team conducted ‘secret shopping’ exercises at colleges in 25 states and catalogued over 800 hours observing and role-playing the new student experience.
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Student Success Blog
What success means to your students, in their own words
EAB researchers went directly to over 200 students and asked how they conceive of success. Their answers surprised, delighted, and moved us—and helped us focus our research and development agenda for the upcoming year.
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Student Success Blog
The evolution of student success
How did we arrive at today's complex definition of student success? Our experts borrowed principles from evolutionary biology to examine how far student success has come, as well as where it might go in the future.
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Student Success Blog
The false tradeoff between academic rigor and course pass rates
See four proven approaches to working with faculty and academic departments to redesign high-DFW courses while maintaining or even strengthening their academic rigor.
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Student Success Blog
3 ways to make advising experiences more meaningful for disengaged students
Students who develop a relationship with a campus advisor are more likely to persist than students who don't, but students don't always know how advisors can help them. Learn three strategies to make advising more about holistic support and self-direction rather than transactional questions.
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Community College Blog
Look beyond demographics to serve students better
Student success initiatives based on demographic risk indicators are well-intentioned but often misguided. Learn how you can collect better information about students to identify those students who truly need extra support—and empower those who don't.
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Student Success Blog
A better way to engage first-generation parents
One-size-fits-all communication doesn't work for your students and it doesn't work for their parents, either. Read about how one institution created more customized newsletters for first-generation students' parents.
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