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Student survey reveals gaps in core academic advising functions

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Locksley Knibbs, lead academic adviser for students studying the natural sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University, knows that advisers take on different roles to serve the whole student: mentor, advocate, mediator, coach. ” Who is advising students, anyway?

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Student survey reveals gaps in core academic advising functions

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Locksley Knibbs, lead academic adviser for students studying the natural sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University, knows that advisers take on different roles to serve the whole student: mentor, advocate, mediator, coach. ” Who is advising students, anyway?

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Presence | Blog | 4 Factors to Consider for Supporting Students in Their 30s, 40s, 50s, & Beyond

Modern Campus

Student Engagement Co-curricular Learning Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Academic Advising Career AdvisingWhen I first began my student affairs career, I envisioned working with college students of “traditional” ages.

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NACADA 2022 Annual Conference – Meet Your Planning Committee Series – Evaluation Co-Chairs

NACADA

2022 Annual Conference #nacada22 academic advising annual conference NACADA professional developmentDear NACADA Community, We are excited to introduce two amazing individuals that will be co-chairing for Evaluations at this year’s NACADA 2022 annual conference.

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NACADA 2022 Annual Conference – Meet Your Planning Committee Series – Conference Co-Chairs

NACADA

2022 Annual Conference #nacada22 academic advising academic advisor advising annual conference NACADA

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Presence | Blog | 4 Ways #SApros Can Help Students Articulate Their Essential Skills to Employers

Modern Campus

Student Engagement Co-curricular Learning Academic Advising Career Advising

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NACADA 2022 Annual Conference – Meet Your Planning Committee Series – Volunteer Co-Chairs

NACADA

2022 Annual Conference #nacada22 academic advising advising annual conference NACADADear Colleagues, On the next segment of our Meet Your Planning Committee Series, we have two of our annual conference planning committee members who are our Volunteer Co-Chairs.

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NACADA 2022 Annual Conference – Meet Your Planning Committee Series – Service Project Co-Chairs

NACADA

Sally is the Director of Student Services at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, and Patricia is an Academic Planning Specialist for the Faculty of Science at Ontario Tech University. 2022 Annual Conference academic advising AcAdv annual conference NACADA

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Navigating the Recovery

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Technology Academic Advising Demographic Forecasting Higher Education Strategy Student Mental Health Student Retention Student Success

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Student Perspectives on Their Academic Lives | Wednesday, March 29 at 2 PM ET

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Join Colleen Flaherty, Melissa Ezarik and Doug Lederman, all members of Inside Higher Ed’s Student Success editorial team, as they discuss the Top 10 findings from IHE and College Pulse’s recent Student Voice survey on academic life.

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What’s Your “Ideal” Job?

Dr. Laura Pasquini

So, it’s a natural to want to know about goals and purpose as a student discusses courses in an academic advising appointment. What career conversations have you had lately?

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Georgetown Launches Bachelor's Completion Program on Coursera - Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology

Ray Schroeder

The 120-credit degree program offers asynchronous courses taught by Georgetown faculty, including on-demand video lectures, opportunities to engage in group discussions with professors and peers, individual academic advising sessions, and more. Students can apply up to 64 college transfer credits (including military training) toward the degree; transfer credits are evaluated for accreditation, timeliness of content, overall academic relevance, and other factors.

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College cancels classes for career, advising expo

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania hosted a full-day advising and career exploration event in lieu of classes on March 21, giving students an opportunity to access resources and develop their success plans.

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Campus Culture As The Key to Sustainable Student Success 

Credo Higher Ed

If academic success is suffering, perhaps the focus falls on academic advising. Many institutions carefully monitor statistics like retention and graduation rates.

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Eight ways to boost student engagement with advisers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The recent Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse Student Voice survey of two- and four-year college students about academic life revealed gaps in core advising functions. This doesn’t mean students don’t benefit from advising, however.

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Eight ways to boost student engagement with advisers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The recent Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse Student Voice survey of two- and four-year college students about academic life revealed gaps in core advising functions. This doesn’t mean students don’t benefit from advising, however.

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Data and Collaboration are the Key to Preserving Higher Ed’s Hard-Fought Equity Gains

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The data has helped reveal the varied challenges facing our students as individuals, as well as better insights into how to address those challenges through academic support, career learning opportunities, and initiatives designed to increase belonging and community.

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APLU and Temple University Releases Guide on Higher Ed Completion Grant Implementation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Christel Perkins Completion grants are funds given to students who need them to finish out their degree or academic journey.

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Success coaching retains first-year students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As the landscape of higher education is changing, so are student needs, and KWU aims to provide a personal touch in ensuring students are aware of the academic resources available to them, rather than directing them to a website or something less interactive.

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University of Dayton, Sinclair CC share students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Sinclair tuition and fees total around $5,574 for the 2023 academic year for local students, compared to UD’s tuition of $46,170 for the same year. Once enrolled and admitted into UD Sinclair Academy, students select an academic pathway from over 100 major or degree programs.

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It may be time to rethink the college minor (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Not only can these certifications increase the number of skilled workers for employers, but academic programs can provide technical certifications that increase the students’ salary, life quality and upward mobility. It may be time to rethink the college minor.

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6 ways leaders are rethinking their student affairs organizational charts in 2023

EAB

Ten percent of surveyed institutions have also moved academic advising under the oversight of the VPSA in the last 18 months. Trying to decide on the right advising model, or whether your institution needs a chief student success officer? Blogs.

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3 Questions for Sue Lorenson, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education at Georgetown

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A: We’re all in the business of encouraging academic and personal formation, but we’re also navigating the tensions facing higher ed right now. 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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Iowa prepares students to learn

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“These messages are reinforced through meetings with academic advisers, who use the same principles and recommendations that students have heard previously,” Vecera adds.

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Two ed-tech companies team up with hopes to improve transfer

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Often faculty members are evaluating courses, academic advisers are guiding students and administrators are making the higher-level policy decisions. “It requires advising, program alignment, more human-process sorts of things.”

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New book links teaching critical thinking to student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Newman, whose book will be published March 7, is former dean of academic advising at Stanford University and John M. Submit your best tip for promoting academic student success here. Image: Fully supporting students means explicitly teaching them critical thinking, Louis E.

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Micro-internship gives students experience without barriers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Additionally, a professional academic adviser, or a “success adviser,” partners with each student during their time at Goucher. Image: Internships remain important in a student’s career development, but equal access to opportunities remains a challenge.

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Four ways for career centers to engage students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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.

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Success Story: Concordia University Wisconsin

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university, she also provided academic advising. “I Via’s Affordability Allows Concordia to Eliminate Application Fees. Concordia University Wisconsin’s Maggie Leimkuehler had a demo with Via during the 2018 NAFSA Regional Conference in Schaumburg, Illinois. “It

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

academic job market has increasingly been characterized as a “ nightmare ”—an oversupply of doctoral graduates amid cratering numbers of tenure-track job postings. The long-lasting effects of COVID-19 policies on the academic marketplace are not yet known. The U.S.

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OSU Cascades integrates equitable career readiness

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The class, which started as a pilot in fall 2022, helps students create an action plan and a mission statement to guide their academic career, Garland explains.

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Consolidating touch points for retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A more recent trend is consolidating student services related to academics or health and wellness into a larger office or building. Image: One-stop services are not new to higher education.

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Students outline academic experiences and expectations

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: No two students’ academic journeys are the same, but the Advising Success Networks’ Student Journey Map gives a glimpse into the student experience in preparing and planning for success.

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Amarillo hires corporate chaplain to serve faculty and staff

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Adam Gray was instantly intrigued the first time he heard the term “corporate chaplain.” ” After working as a pastor full-time for 25 years at Central Church of Christ in Amarillo, Tex., Gray couldn’t stop thinking about it.

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Enrollment design project: The student experience from admission to alumni

EAB

With our new president, Dr. Shari McMahan, on board and a fresh academic year on the horizon, the charge was made to uncover the student experience from a systems point of view.

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Improving Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation Rates: Learning from the Arrupe College Strategic Enrollment Model

The Change Leader, Inc.

During this time, incoming students connect with their academic advisors, who are faculty members, and rising sophomores who serve as orientation leaders. Academic advisors and rising sophomores are crucial in first-year students’ lives after orientation.

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Why everyone should be talking about student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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.

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Boost Higher Ed Enrollment and Graduation Rates – The Power of Student Support and Belonging: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 148 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Elliot Felix

The Change Leader, Inc.

Notable examples include Johns Hopkins’ Imagine Center, where career planning, life design, academic planning, and academic advising are all integrated into one place. Elliot Felix 02:19 I started as an architect, working on academic, cultural, and public facilities.

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Survey data show disparities in college course registration holds

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: One in five students has been unable to register for classes at some point because of an advising, financial or other kind of institutional hold. Some examples: a student who hasn’t completed an advising requirement doesn’t register for the next semester at all.

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How Thematic Major Clusters, Major Maps, and Faculty Mentorship Elevate the Student Experience

EAB

Today’s students face more difficulties succeeding in their academic experience than those that came before them. The last two years of the pandemic impacted students’ academic success and their transition to a residential campus setting. Blogs.

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York College academic administrator won't leave students behind

Confessions of a Community College Dean

He had not declared a major or developed an awareness of his needed academic tools, but Landau was motivated to learn for the sake of learning. This position, in what was then Academic Services, came open, and we revamped it into a student success division. Is this somebody in advising?”

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The Power of Together: Key Takeaways from NACUBO 2022 

Collegis Education Higher Ed Trends

For example, a student with an account hold who wants to register for classes will have to go to the business office to settle the bill and academic advising for class registration. At NACUBO’s 2022 annual meeting, the theme of “The Power of Together” was a fitting message.

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Faculty and Credit Transfer

Confessions of a Community College Dean

One critical transition point during the transfer student enrollment process requires the receiving institution to assess students’ course history and map it to academic program requirements. They interpret and determine how the student's prior learning maps to specific academic programs or degree requirements. Blog: Beyond Transfer For many students, transferring between community colleges and 4-year institutions is sometimes the only path to a bachelor’s degree.