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How two-way texting aids in student support and retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The communications and marketing office began working with institutional research to launch a series of two-way text messaging pilot programs this past fall. The focus groups had revealed students felt emails were “often long-winded and full of academic jargon that make them hard to read,” Whittington-Studer shares.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

Assistant Vice President, Institutional Strategy & Effectiveness, Mississippi State University University Research Supporting undergraduate research and challenging assumptions R.

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TSU’s Systematic Approach to Student Success

EAB

That is a very long title to say basically our office is responsible for institutional research, institutional assessment, as well as some components of academic technology. I enjoy engaging with the university community, how I could help collaborate across the campus in supporting our students.

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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.

Colleges and universities already offer student support, but students and parents either aren’t aware of them, aren’t comfortable using them, or these programs are offered at the wrong time. Higher ed institutions need to find ways to integrate this support and make it more visible, accessible, and normalized.

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Transformational Change: Challenges & Opportunities

Dr. Al Solano

Perhaps sociologists and cultural anthropologist will correct me, but in my coaching work to help colleges improve their practices— real implementation work, not just discussions and planning —it’s the pattern of behaviors, attitudes, customs, norms, and routines at a college. People are gone again in January.