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Motivate faculty to contribute to student retention
Retaining students is more than a financial question—it’s an ethical one. Retaining our first-year students means we make good on the promise of admission: that not only will we invite you to join our institution, we’ll provide support to ensure you can be successful. Faculty’s communication and relationships with students are key in getting students to stay and succeed in college.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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