EAB

JULY 21, 2023

Blogs Why customer service matters for community colleges Learnings and recommendations from EAB’s 2023 customer service survey I just talked to someone in registration, and they told me to call you! What are the features of a “modern student experience,” and how do community colleges stack up?

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 12, 2024

In fact, some schools have experienced record growth over the last five years, and no higher education institutions are better positioned for continued growth in the next decade than community colleges. Community colleges play a crucial role in providing an accessible and affordable education to diverse student populations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The university restructured to a centralized academic advising model for the first two years of college, ensuring that advising is consistent across all majors, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. Between 77% and 81% of students identify as Latino and 22% self-reported as first-generation college students.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

To ensure that doesn’t happen, avoid these common pitfalls in the community college enrollment journey: Complex Enrollment Processes Lengthy admissions procedures: Complicated and time-consuming application processes can frustrate new students, especially those unfamiliar with higher education procedures. But you’re only halfway home.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 22, 2024

Advising on Classes, Life and Anything Else Ashley Mowreader Mon, 04/22/2024 - 03:00 AM The University of Central Florida streamlined student supports by merging the roles of academic adviser and student success coach roles into one. Byline(s) Ashley Mowreader

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The Scholarly Teacher

MAY 10, 2023

These include building strong relationships, timely communication, staying organized, and effective time management. Academic advising is complex and multifaceted, and yet many faculty advise without much training. Navigating technology can be a very challenging aspect of academic advising. Educause Review.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Five crucial things that these four are doing: increasing affordability, addressing academic barriers, creating a sense of belonging, experiential learning and wraparound services. One is a very high college success rate. WSU’s CAMP was founded in 2006. There is a designated recruiter.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We Having cohorts here is really important, especially for engineering and computer science because it’s a community that supports each other.” I care more than just graduation at community college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Survey Teaser: Helping Students Prepare for Life After College colleen.flaherty Tue, 11/21/2023 - 03:00 AM Respondents to the newest Student Voice survey seem to value passion as much as practicality in preparing for a career and expect moderate to high levels of support from professors and academic advisers in this area.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: Setting community college students up for success can result in institutional partnerships, as demonstrated by the University of Dayton’s work with Sinclair Community College in Ohio. The initiative also increases the number of graduates who remain in the Dayton area and contribute to its local workforce.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

These colleges and their certification advocates argue that certification not only readily equips students with the real-world skills to transition successfully to their first job post but also addresses many of the equity concerns colleges face by validating the idea that all forms of learning are valued, including forms of skilled labor.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2024

A New College Lesson Plan for Improving Executive Functioning Melissa Ezarik Fri, 03/15/2024 - 03:00 AM Many students are coming to college with difficulties in basic tasks and life management skills, resulting in an inability to, for example, prioritize tasks effectively and get to class on time. Byline(s) Ana Homayoun

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: A line of students out the door of the advising center, extending down the hallway to the floor below. Seven or eight advisers working furiously to help them. Student Success Editorial Tags: Student Success Image Source: Tallahassee Community College Image Caption: Fall-to-spring retention is up 3.4

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

Faculty wanted to support student retention and provide greater academic support through a day of just academic advising in the spring semester. And, as originally intended, faculty academic advisers were available by appointment to meet with students all day.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

Coaches work with their student cohort, either one-on-one or in a group setting, for the first year before handing them off to academic advisers for sophomore, junior and senior year. If a student misses their registration deadline, for example, their success coach can step in and set up a meeting.

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Parchment

MARCH 24, 2023

Often faculty members are evaluating courses, academic advisers are guiding students and administrators are making the higher-level policy decisions. ” While that’s “good news,” she added that technology can only do so much when institution-level transfer policies remain convoluted and decentralized.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer For many students, transferring between community colleges and 4-year institutions is sometimes the only path to a bachelor’s degree. Community colleges provide a valuable service to students due to lower costs, closer proximity to home communities, and more flexibility for non-traditional students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

An August 2022 Student Voice survey conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse found that first-generation students were likely to lack any internship experience or experiential learning within a course: half of all first-gen students and two-thirds of first-gen community college students had not had these experiences.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

liberal arts colleges, community colleges and master’s-level institutions) is necessary to understand the full picture of academic hiring. Peter Lange is provost emeritus at Duke University and senior academic adviser at Academic Analytics Research Center. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting

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NACADA

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The 2025 NACADA Region Conference season is just around the corner, and we’re looking for passionate professionals like you to share your insights, experiences, and innovative practices in academic advising. This is your chance to dive deep into your goals, pursue your passions, and challenge yourself like never before!

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 5, 2023

It took a year for me to make a match, but when I saw an ad for a job as an academic adviser to language and linguistics majors at Georgetown, I immediately knew that I was going to get the job. Twenty-five years later, I’m still at Georgetown, in a much different position, but still working to support student academic life.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

Some examples: a student who hasn’t completed an advising requirement doesn’t register for the next semester at all. ” Melinda Anderson, executive director of the academic advising group NACADA, says she’s been encouraging institutions to re-examine their hold policies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

During her academic career, Rivera Restivo says she’s found advisers have high levels of responsibility but are not always helpful. Rivera Restivo is working on her associate’s degree at Northwestern Connecticut Community College and feels advising resources neglect nontraditional students, like herself.

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College Forward

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Through a collaboration with national nonprofit College Possible , the community college district will bring evidence-based near-peer coaching to 700 AlamoPROMISE students on two of its campuses, the majority of whom are from under-resourced backgrounds or are first-generation students. SAN ANTONIO , Nov.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“These messages are reinforced through meetings with academic advisers, who use the same principles and recommendations that students have heard previously,” Vecera adds. Introductory courses, such as College Algebra, also use the Learning at Iowa resources to support the new models of learning.

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

Stuebner , president of Colby-Sawyer College, is relocating to become the 21st president of Marietta College in Ohio. Stuebner, who has also been an administrator at Allegheny College and Lycoming College, has specialized in student retention, admission, academic advising and student support.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

One approach: Kansas Wesleyan University matches each of its incoming students to a student success coach, who provides one-on-one first-year engagement with the Student Success Center’s resources prior to their work with an academic adviser. Create career services champions across campus.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Insights from Dr. Tiffany Ray-Patterson, VP of Student Success at Germanna Community College Based on our Office Hours with EAB podcast, Episode 166, Could Your Students Benefit from “One Front Door” Onboarding? Blogs What is “one front door” onboarding and how could it help your students? Three key takeaways for your institution 1.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Newman argues in Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success (Radius Book Group). Newman, whose book will be published March 7, is former dean of academic advising at Stanford University and John M. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, at Carleton College. and Elizabeth W.

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University Business

APRIL 26, 2023

Source: Connecticut Office of Policy and Management, originally published by CT Mirror More from UB: Cash is king for this university’s new student success strategy Programs in trouble Student support services such as mental health support and academic advising will be severely impacted by the cuts, according to Chen.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 27, 2024

Building a Transfer-Friendly Environment To appeal to a broader range of students, including those looking to transfer from community colleges or other institutions, your university should promote its transfer credit policies and accelerated programs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For decades, colleges have consolidated many of their admissions and enrollment services functions under a single umbrella office—including, but not limited to, the bursar, the registrar, the cashier’s office and financial aid.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Interventions include completion grants , college-to-career transitions and proactive academic advising , all three of which the alliance has turned into free “playbooks” for other institutions’ use. The alliance uses different tools to develop evidence-based solutions for student success that can be scaled.

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Parchment

AUGUST 30, 2024

In this article, we dig deeper to see how dual enrollment can open doors to college for a broader range of learners, examine the persistent gaps in access to dual enrollment opportunities, and explore a strategy that community colleges are implementing to break down the barriers still standing in the way.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

The issue can be a lack of a centralized, cross-departmental office that acts as a one-stop shop for all career-related issues on campus, limited coordination between career offices and other student-facing units like academic advising or student affairs, or both.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

The university will increase its staff of career-development officers and academic advisers as well as data managers and software personnel to make the program run successfully.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

“​​What some colleges don’t understand is that you have to take care of your staff to the utmost of your ability if you want them to continue to go above and beyond for the students who they’re trying to help navigate the system,” said Melodie Graves, associate director of academic advising at Amarillo.

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