Student Success Blog

3 ways that third-party actors influence campus activism

Use this quick guide with campus leaders and response teams to identify, discuss, and calibrate your institution’s response strategy for working with and managing third-party actors and other external influences.

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.

Design an early alert system faculty will actually use

Whether designing your new early alert system or evaluating your current system, there are guidelines to follow to help your institution improve its use of early alert systems.

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.