Cindy Boyer has made it her mission to help reinstated students succeed. A decade ago, she was the sole employee of a retention-focused student success office at Eastern Illinois University when a student who had been dismissed twice applied to return. Because of concern the student might fail once again, Boyer took him under her […]
Some Arizona State engineering students have an additional roommate this year, and her name is Alexa. The university has partnered with Amazon to offer free Echo Dot smart speakers to about 1,600 students, most of whom live in the new Tooker House residential hall for Fulton Schools of Engineering students. But it’s not just a […]
Seven years ago, Western Kentucky University said goodbye to its time-consuming, paper-based way of issuing financial aid refunds and said hello to BankMobile, an electronic disbursement service that has led to major savings. “Between student refunds and student payroll disbursements, we have eliminated having to issue 76,000 paper checks annually,” says Belinda Higginbotham, bursar for […]
Freshman enrollment at the Columbia campus of the University of Missouri has fallen by more than 35 percent since the institution's well-publicized and racially driven student protests in November 2015, according to a July New York Times article. The institution acknowledges that the incidents are a major cause of the drop. Mizzou is temporarily shuttering […]
As The Emoji Movie hits theater screens this summer, a new wave of college-themed emojis is arriving on smartphone screens. Higher ed institutions—capitalizing on the popularity of the digital pictographs—now offer customized sets of emojis featuring school logos, mascots and other themed graphics, such as smiling or winking faces. The emojis allow students, graduates, student […]
By the time they graduate, nearly 100 percent of students from The University of Toledo Edward H. Schmidt School of Professional Sales have jobs. How? One of the secrets is video. In this web seminar, a leader from the business school demonstrated how to use academic video to maximize student engagement in the classroom, and […]
There’s no doubt that higher ed institutions have access to tons of student data these days, but what separates actionable insights from analytics overload? Colleges and universities that crack the code can embark upon data-based decision-making as it relates to student success initiatives. Others, struggling, get lost in the numbers. “Most institutions are data rich […]
Often, student success efforts are focused primarily on retaining first-year students, but fail to continue supporting students throughout their college careers. At the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, the institution’s leadership wanted to take a broader approach to student success by developing a predictive model that would include upperclassmen. In this web seminar, the vice chancellor […]
When Tyson Cooper began working in student accounts 10 years ago, debt collection on college campuses was viewed as purely business and "a necessary evil," says the director of student financial services at the University of Southern Virginia. Today, with increased attention on student success and the long-term effects of unpaid accounts, institutions need to […]
To keep Stanford front and center in the minds and hearts of its graduates, the university’s alumni association—like other institutions—is investing time on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. The big attraction: instant, interactive, daily engagement—especially with young alumni. “Social media is the digital water cooler,” says Adam Miller, Stanford University Alumni Association’s director of digital and […]
