Knowing Our Students: Designing an Experience That Serves Students Holistically

Now more than ever, we recognize how interconnected students' personal and financial contexts are to their academic and career journeys. The events of the last year call on institutions of higher education to take bold action to understand the students they serve more deeply so they can address aspects of policy, practice, and culture that hinder the success of their students. This session will introduce a new guidebook developed by Achieving the Dream in partnership with the Advising Success Network designed to support higher ed institutions in better understanding their students and using these data to inform decisions about the college experience. Participants will engage in learning, discussion, and activities to ensure they leave with an understanding of the data that can be most useful, a process for using those data in their student success work, and examples of how other institutions have approached this work. Additionally, each participant will receive a copy of the guidebook.