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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. Faculty members who hosted workshops were awarded with professional development credit.

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Meaningful Membership: My Path to NACADA Participation

NACADA

I immensely enjoyed attending sessions directly related to advising and benefited from connecting with the larger advising community. During the conference, I attended a session on publishing with NACADA that inspired me to develop the presentation with my colleague into an Academic Advising Today article.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. The last two years, ASU has seen the highest retention rates of all students, but particularly Latino students.

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Why customer service matters for community colleges

EAB

Our research shows that difficulty accessing the college—whether it’s reaching enrollment staff, the financial aid office, or academic advising—can be disruptive to the student experience. Invest in customer service professional development.

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Student Transfer (Part 2) – How to Improve the Transfer Experience for Students

Parchment

It’s improving the transfer experience is not going to be done by nibbling and by just doing like a little transfer program over here or an event over here. So then it gets back to the difficult thing which is like pathways, thinking about pathways, academic advising. Improving transfer. is a system and a culture change.

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