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Avoiding ‘fight or flight’ behaviors in student onboarding
Learn how to prevent students from exhibiting ""fight or flight"" behaviors during onboarding.
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Three innovative ways to use financial aid to promote student success
Learn how institutions can use conventional aid programs not only to recruit students, but to promote student success.
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Q&A with Middle Tennessee State University
Since becoming vice provost at Middle Tennessee State University last fall, Rick Sluder has launched SSC with great success—for the second time in his career. Read our latest Q&A to learn how he's able to make the initiative a campus-wide priority.
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Exploring the value of students’ midterm data
Preliminary research from a subset of the SSC national data set found that midterm grades aren't necessarily as strong an indicator of final grades as you'd think, but they can provide clues about a student's success trajectory.
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What major switching can tell us about student outcomes
Our Data Science Team recently conducted an analysis of 401,314 first-time, full-time students to understand how the timing of major declaration and major switching can impact student success. Read the Q&A to find out what they discovered.
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What can we learn from first-year GPA?
More universities could be using one of the most basic student success indicators—first year GPA—to focus advising efforts and student success initiatives where they have the greatest impact. Discover three quick insights about first year GPA from SSC members.
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Student Success Insights: A blog to guide your success initiatives
Without the right ideas, even the best technologies can prove ineffective. That's why we created Student Success Insights, a blog to enhance your relationship with the Student Success Collaborative by providing related best practices and recommendations.
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