Collaborative Student Success—Integrating People, Platforms, & Analytics
For regional public institutions, investing in comprehensive student success strategies can often be just beyond reach. Limitations in funding for large-scale initiatives, personnel resources, and competing priorities mean that potential investments in truly comprehensive and integrated student success programming might never be seriously considered. At Northern Michigan University, recent investments, including expanded advising teams, comprehensive predictive analytics, an internally developed student retention platform, and student engagement systems, garnered approval by senior leadership and the Board of Trustees. Our team will describe the approach to assembling the proposal, selling it to leadership (including financial models of retention impacts), implementing and integrating analytics, technical details on developing the in-house student engagement system, and bringing it all together under one Student Success Collaborative at NMU.
Presenters
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Jason Nicholas
Assistant Provost and Dir for Institutional Effectiveness,
Northern Michigan University
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Bill Richards
IT/Finance - Project Manager,
Northern Michigan University