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Now more than ever, the decisions we make and the way we spend our budget dollars matters. The way we interact with, recruit, and retain students is more crucial than ever before in achieving admissions and enrollment goals, and at…

This is part of our 5 Biggest Data Concerns Series. Catch up on part one! Data Problem #3: Reluctance to Embrace a Data Culture A recent national surveys of presidents, provosts, CFOs, and CIOs revealed that the many (and in…

One of the best aspects of education is that it’s always about moving and changing. Education is by definition a process of change, a process of entering into a program or community or intellectual space intending to exit different from…

Most of us have read or heard about the Tower of Babel, and the Babylonians’ lofty intentions of building a tower to heaven. Those intentions were never realized because God created multiple, diverse languages so the workers could no longer…

This is part four of our 5 Signs of a Healthy Student Journey Series. Catch up on parts one, two, and three! Terms like ‘grit’ and ‘self-efficacy’ are concepts that are notoriously difficult to define, measure, and monitor. However, they have also been woven…

So, safe to say the world is a little weird right now. If you caught my last post on how to work from home, you may have noticed a tease at the end for some more content on this topic.…

If you’re reading this article, chances are that this is not the first article you’ve read on the topic of student success. It’s a hot topic today, and with very good reason. The traditional measurements of success in higher education…

This is part three of our 5 Signs of a Healthy Student Journey Series. Catch up on parts one and two! Students develop three main types of connections during their educational journey: connections with their peers, their faculty, and the school…

Over the past few weeks, our country has been dealing with a pandemic we never thought possible. Emergency personnel, doctors and nurses, janitors, food service staff, grocery store employees, and so many more essential workers have been stepping up to…

This is part two of our 5 Signs of a Healthy Student Journey Series. Catch up on part one! Any time spent in the retention and student success fields will quickly reveal that financial issues are one of the primary obstacles…