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Top Retention Strategies for Diverse Modern Learners

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

As the needs of students change, universities must alter their recruitment and retention strategies to make sure that their messages resonate with diverse student prospects, and that they provide the right support services to meet these students’ needs. Mental health services.

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Are you meeting students’ basic needs?

EAB

Like many of our students, I was a first gen, low-income college student who had periods of housing, food, and transportation insecurity. I remember working food service jobs so it would be easier to eat, needing to move constantly as rent got too high, and scrounging to afford my bus pass.

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New Student Engagement Data Reveals Surprises

EAB

One month later after that, in that same first semester, James, his tone has changed, even the way he communicates. We have the Community College Service Student Engagement called CCSSE that's administered in our spring term. And he says, college is kind of hard, but he's gonna stick through it. So the first one I said was data.