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 […]

"The last thing colleges want to do is put a former student in collections," says Harrison Wadsworth, executive director of the Coalition of Higher Education Assistance Organizations. But when internal efforts to collect tuition don't work, it's important to have somewhere to turn for help. At Texas Tech University, the finance office pursues unpaid balances […]

The Core Campus Project—a mixed-use addition to Clemson University—includes student housing, retail and residential dining, and is also a centralized home for the Calhoun Honors College. It creates a new "main street" for pedestrians at the heart of campus and provides living space for 700 students. CHALLENGE: As enrollment continues to grow—more than 6,400 students […]