Retention
Retention and completion are higher priorities for government leaders, students and critics than ever before. This shift is positive for institutions. Although retention is a challenge, students now continue enrolling in higher education over the course of their careers, and a positive experience goes a long way.
I Don’t Care What You Know Until I Know You Care: Why Caring Campuses Retain More Students
Brad Phillips | President and CEO, Institute for Evidence- Based ChangeIf students don’t feel connected to the college they attend, they are far less likely to return next term, regardless of the academic interventions and support services the college has…
How to Leverage Fresh Starts to Support Enrollment and Persistence Growth
Ross O'hara | Behavioral Researcher, Persistence PlusMany students withdraw when they find themselves facing insurmountable debts, both financial and academic. Offering a fresh start could motivate them to finish their degree. Every spring, I feel extra…
Disrupting Remediation: How We’ve Bucked the Status Quo to Improve Students Success
Trenda Boyum-Breen | Associate Teaching Professor in the College of Professional Studies, Northeastern University Brooks DohertyThe problems inherent in high-stakes standardized testing are well documented: Race, class and first-language bias in test questions, inflexibility regarding students’ learning styles, and significant advantages given to students who…
How to Engage Adults In The Institutional Mission While Designing Programming To Fit Their Needs
Claudia Pouravelis | Associate Dean of Enrollment Management in the Woods College of Advancing Studies, Boston CollegeIt is tempting in today’s world of non-traditional higher education, with its alluring statistics on the growing population of adult learners, to strategize only on how to offer a quick,…
Small Changes, Large Rewards: How Individualized Emails Increase Classroom Performance
Zoë Cohen | Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine Tucson, University of Arizona“No professor has ever cared about me.” This was a sentence in an email I received from a struggling student in my Physiology of the Immune System course, an upper-division…
How Raising the Bar Helps Re-Entry Students Succeed (Part 4)
Daniel Apple | President, Pacific Crest David LeasureThis series discusses the results of the Pacific Crest Online Recovery Course, exploring how to help students who are returning to postsecondary education learn to learn. The Barriers Re-Considered The…
How Raising the Bar Helps Re-Entry Students Succeed (Part 3)
Daniel Apple | President, Pacific Crest David LeasureThis series discusses the results of the Pacific Crest Online Recovery Course, exploring how to help students who are returning to postsecondary education learn to learn. Lessons Learned 1. Socio-economic-psychological-physical-health…