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The Evolving Quest For Student Success

The Evolving Quest For Student Success. An Inside Higher Ed webinar Tuesday, April 18 at 2 p.m. Eastern. Presenters. Scott Jaschik , editor, Inside Higher Ed, scott.jaschik@insidehighered.com Doug Lederman, editor, Inside Higher Ed, doug.lederman@insidehighered.com. Agenda.

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The Evolving Quest For Student Success

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  1. The Evolving QuestFor Student Success An Inside Higher Ed webinar Tuesday, April 18 at 2 p.m. Eastern

  2. Presenters • Scott Jaschik, editor, Inside Higher Ed, scott.jaschik@insidehighered.com • Doug Lederman, editor, Inside Higher Ed, doug.lederman@insidehighered.com

  3. Agenda • Brief history of the movement • Potential philosophical turning points • Hot ideas

  4. Brief Recap of the Movement • From 60s on, educators and politicians pushed to broaden access to American higher education. • From 90s on, concerns started to grow about student success, with concerns about low retention and graduation rates. • From 2000s on, more attention is paid to completion as key metric. • During Obama administration, unusual convergence of interest in student success (among state and federal governments, Republicans and Democrats, foundations and educators).

  5. The Obama Impact

  6. Impact of Free Tuition Movement

  7. You Can’t Succeed If You Can’t Get There

  8. Online Student Success • Evidence of success and failure online (as in face-to-face instruction) • Evidence on at-risk students and the start of a college program • Evidence on importance of support services (both for academic help and tech support) for at-risk students

  9. The Importance of Summer • Campus policies • Return of summer Pell?

  10. Building Relationships With Latino Students

  11. Defining Goals and Pledging to Keep Them

  12. Making Transfer Work • Logistics • Learning

  13. Preparing Students for Careers • Job-specific academic programs • Training across academic fields • Soft skills

  14. Defining and Measuring Learning Goals

  15. More Important Than Ever • Tools for tracking • Tools to assure the tracking data are used • Advising students

  16. Your Questions • Q&A

  17. With Thanks

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