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.
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 CrestThis 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 CrestThis 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…
How Raising the Bar Helps Re-Entry Students Succeed (Part 2)
Daniel Apple | President, Pacific CrestThis 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 Transformation Every student…
How Raising the Bar Helps Re-Entry Students Succeed (Part 1)
Daniel Apple | President, Pacific CrestThis 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. As educators, we want…
Supporting Non-Traditional and Lower-Income Students
Martin Tadlock | Interim Regional Chancellor, University of South Florida St. PetersburgYears ago, I was a full-time non-traditional student with three children. As such, I have a special affinity for working adults pursuing a college degree. Balancing work, family, community and…