by Joe LeCluyse | Jul 26, 2016 | Student Success |
To address student success in higher education, we must simply look at everyone. You may be wondering how I came to this conclusion? At one point in a prior life I was chairing a committee on identifying “at-risk” students to whom we needed to direct our student...
by Dennis Day | Jun 21, 2016 | Student Success |
The first year of my career, I taught public school in a state that had just issued a requirement that students graduating must pass a proficiency test. This was the first time a “measurement” had become so important in my professional career. As time passed and the...
by Joe LeCluyse | May 23, 2016 | Student Success |
Student success has been a buzz word since I started working in higher education. The first time I understood what this truly meant was when I was a Dean (in the early 1990s). Quite accidentally, I learned a very critical question to ask of students: “Tell me why you...
by Dennis Day | Apr 26, 2016 | Student Success |
Even with sophisticated predictive analytics, we’re still 12th???? Imagine: You dash into the weekly President’s Council at your college or university and pronounce: “We are 12th amongst our peers in degree attainment!” Not sure what the reaction would be? At the Fall...
by Joe LeCluyse | Mar 22, 2016 | Student Success |
I believe in the holistic approach to student success and that student success should be pervasive across the institution and all employees. It is interesting to me how often I am asked: So what does that mean to me and my department? How do we play a part in...
by Dennis Day | Feb 23, 2016 | Student Success |
This time of the year marks the end of the professional football season with the playing of the Super Bowl, the middle of the National Basketball Association season with the All – Star game and the beginning of the professional baseball season with Spring Training...
