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Moving the needle on student success metrics by changing faculty incentives
More than forty years of research tells us that faculty-student relationships are essential to student success, but in the absence of intentional policies we cannot assume that every student will benefit.
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Faculty’s role in student success
We know from extant research that students who fail or withdraw from a class are less likely to be retained, take longer to finish a degree, and have the potential loss of financial aid and scholarship. At our institution, courses with high DFW rates cause students to retake courses that are already in high demand, which poses challenges for meeting enrollment needs. Also, when students do not do well in STEM courses, in particular, they don't have the GPA to get into other majors, and they either leave and attend a community college or they do not return to higher education.
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Lessons learned from changes to disability-related accommodations during the pandemic
Disability accommodations by definition are changes to non-essential components in a given environment. Moving forward, we need to ask ourselves whether a testing component, for example, is “non-essential” and why we continue certain practices if the practices result in separation or segregation.
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3 ways technology can help overcome financial barriers
Financial pressure is the top reason that students leave college. Learn 3 ways technology can help overcome financial barriers to student success.
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Closing the equity gap in retention and persistence rates
While conducting my research I found many risk factors that can influence the equity gap including pre-college (financial factors, college prep), student experience (feelings of belonging, college transition), and academics (advising, rigor). Multiple resources noted that peer-to-peer mentoring programs increase first year engagement and ease both the academic and social transition to college.
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Going beyond COVID improvements to bolster the university’s online programs
Fully online undergraduate programs are now at the forefront of revenue innovation. To maximize the potential of the online offerings, optimizing retention rates is important for both the sustained success of the program as well as revenue generation.
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Building a student success report from publicly available data
IPEDS data are neither perfect nor exhaustive, but they can be useful as a means to explore trends and identify achievement gaps among students in a way that may otherwise be difficult for institutions to accomplish independently, especially given a shortage of resources and/or technology.
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What 126 presidents learned from Slack about the future of work
126 college and university presidents discussed the future of work during our Presidential Experience Lab, EAB’s signature event for college and university presidents to take inspiration from out-of-industry exemplars to consider thought-provoking concepts, lessons and trends to help shape their leadership efforts and institutional strategy.
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Who could benefit the most from more academic advising?
Our data science team has been studying how advising interactions might inflect student outcomes by analyzing data from over two dozen partner institutions in the Student Success Collaborative. Explore some of their early findings.
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