What are pivotal moments—and how do they influence student success?
Pivotal moments can mean the difference between success and failure for your students. Here's how to help students navigate them, according to EAB experts at CONNECTED19.
How Schools Can Help Students Navigate Pivotal Moments
Explore this infographic to understand the kinds of Pivotal Moments students encounter, what can go wrong as they attempt to navigate them, and what schools can do to help.
Finding your Pivotal Moments
Every person who works in student success understands that there are inflection points that can make the difference between a student walking across the graduation stage or ending their college career too early. To explore this, we asked our Student Success Collaborative partners and colleagues, “What were your Pivotal Moments?” Watch our video to learn what they shared.
How one college reduced summer melt by 8.6 percentage points in one year
Students can't successfully navigate pivotal moments if they don't know how to recognize them. Here's how one community college restructured orientation to improve communication surrounding pivotal moments—ultimately reducing summer melt.
How students at one university honor faculty (in 200 words or less)
To celebrate the role of faculty in student success, California State University Fullerton recognizes professors and advisors for the impact they’ve had on students’ pivotal moments.
How one university restores students' sense of self-efficacy when they stumble
Students with a low GPA at this university had a graduation rate below 10%. Here's how student success leaders implemented a summer program to not only improve students' academic standing, but also reframe their academic stumble as a learning opportunity.
Understanding and Designing Interventions for Pivotal Moments
Along your students’ college journey are many Pivotal Moments, inflection points that can mean the difference between success and failure. This session, originally presented at CONNECTED19, will help you understand the challenges related to Pivotal Moments across the student lifecycle and explore intervention strategies to help more students succeed.
