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Student Success, Retention, and Graduation

We want every student to achieve their potential, and believe they can. The challenges? Too many to list. Each student is unique and has their own burdens, surprises, and disruptions that stand between stepping on campus and stepping up to receive their diploma.

Colleges and universities know that they need to look at students holistically, understand students’ needs, and provide the services and support that will help students succeed. Pulling everyone together to improve student retention in higher education is hard. It requires integrated planning.

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Is Higher Education Ready for Its Learners?
Impact Student Success Using the Three-Box Solution

Improving student success requires colleges and universities to let go of past practices, improve current operations, and experiment with new innovations. Learn how one institution used a nimble strategic planning process to create a student success framework that addresses the past, present, and future.

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Planning for Higher Education Journal

Streamlining the Process of Student Success and Persistence

 A combination of course prerequisite simplification and focused efforts by academic advising and tutoring services, when and where needed most, can substantially improve student achievement and degree attainment.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Is Higher Education Ready for Its Learners?

 With sweeping shifts in recruitment and retention of students throughout higher education, Northern Kentucky University committed to a pivot. Its new student framework emphasizes student support and academic delivery driven by strategic decisions and data rather than by impulsivity. Their Success by Design framework encouraged innovations that focused the university on meeting learners where they were.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

From Innovation to Impact

 Rigorously evaluating the impact of innovative student success initiatives is key in meeting institutional goals for student outcomes, resource allocation, and return on investment.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Postsecondary Preparatory Programs for Veterans

 A very wide gap exists in the ability of institutions to not only collect data and report on outcomes for enrolled veterans, but also to identify them in the first place.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Innovation in Action

 Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (iPASS) is an emerging, innovative practice with the potential to create transformative institutional change.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Factors That Contribute to the Persistence of Minority Students in STEM Fields

 This exploratory study examined factors that contributed to the college persistence of minority students in STEM graduate programs at LMCU, providing nuance and texture to the existing theory and research.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Expanding College Completion

 It is important to ensure that our nation’s open-access colleges can operate at a level where they can provide seats at the higher education table for all who wish to attend.
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Conferences, Courses, and Workshops of Interest

Conference

SCUP 2023 Annual Conference

 July 30, 2023 - August 1, 2023
Cleveland, OH
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Academic PlanningInstitutional Effectiveness PlanningDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion PlanningStrategic PlanningStrategic Enrollment Management PlanningInformation Technology Planning
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Christopher Incarvito
Director of Research Operations and Technology
Yale University



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