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Sustainable student success strategies for higher ed leaders

Three college presidents share four lessons for building a sustainable student success model through connected support and real-time…
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What's changed after the new FAFSA? One enrollment leader's biggest lessons

Learn how enrollment leaders can strengthen FAFSA follow-up, improve affordability conversations, and keep students engaged through today's evolving…
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How one university used AI to build trust in financial scenario planning

Discover how the New Jersey Institute of Technology built an AI-enabled financial scenario planning simulator for campus stakeholders.
Higher Education Strategy Blog
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6 trends we're watching after the end of Grad PLUS

The end of Grad PLUS is reshaping graduate enrollment. Explore six key trends in borrowing, scholarships, private loans,…
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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    Investments to improve student comfort, success, and retention

    Data supports that a number of students who transition from high school to college struggle in STEM fields. Paired with the financial cost of repeated courses, the emotional cost to struggling students, their families, and the faculty cognizant of these struggles tarnishes a student’s positive experiences pertaining to higher education. Universities should take an approach to meet students where they are at when they are accepted.

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    Improve student success through digital and technological engagement

    Technology has played an increasingly important role in student success as student information technology, learning management systems, and other student success resources have evolved in the digital space. The pandemic increased higher education’s reliance on digital platforms for students to be able to access and engage with their campus support resources and educational opportunities.

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    Campus communication onboarding guide for new students

    Effective institutional onboarding communication with new students is extremely challenging. However, if it’s done in a strategic manner, with the right timing, and includes all entities involved in the onboarding process, it can be one of the most powerful tools for student retention and persistence for incoming students at your institution.

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    Optimizing institutional resources for research growth

    This blog is focused on developing a menu of solutions to promote research growth. While the solution is multifaceted and some aspects are still under construction, this period of transition has resulted in a renewed sense of movement and excitement at institutions.

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    How to explain facilities impacts at the institution level and obtain buy-in

    How can we better explain impacts of facilities at the institutional, unit, and division level and obtain buy-in with executive leaders? As part of this evaluation, we identified several opportunities for success.

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    Rethinking the academic affairs organizational structure

    There are some considerations for rethinking the academic structure: functional alignment, institutional priorities, strategic altitude, and provost’s individual priorities. The provost needs to need to balance functional alignment with institutional and individual priorities. There are of course many other considerations such as timing, change management, and communications.

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    How academic units can show alignment with and measure progress towards university goals

    This blog explores how one of EAB's rising higher education leaders fellows created a strategic plan data model. This model was used to evaluate goal progression and produce succinct reports showing CCI’s alignment with university goals.

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  • Higher Education Strategy Blog

    Fiscal literacy for department chairs

    While management of financial resources is one of their top responsibilities, often department chairs who are charged with stewardship of a significant portion of the university’s resources are provided the least amount of training to do so.

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    Cross-departmental collaboration for innovation and impact

    Persistent year-over-year declines in federal funding has forced a fundamental change in activity. In the current era of big bets, institutions have shifted to competing for outcomes-focused funding directed to large-scale collaborative research projects with a clear social benefit. Modern students are also seeking the type of societal impact that spans disciplines.

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