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Featured|Feb 23, 2021|Anne E Lundquist, Ph.D.

Equity-Centered Student Success: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility

Feb 9, 2021

Make Me a Match: February is Matching Gift Month

Did you know February is Matching Gift Month? This opportunity can be a great way to build awareness around matching gifts for your institution. Data from The Big-Give Research Initiative suggests that your donors are 84% more likely to contribute to a cause if they know…...

Dec 22, 2020

Does the Classroom Environment Matter?

Course evaluation results provide immediate feedback for faculty (assuming they get the results in a timely manner), but they only tell a story of a single point in time and typically involve little to no real analysis. With the right…...

Dec 17, 2020

Pandemic Student Survey Results: Community Colleges

In a nationwide survey of current college students about their experience during the pandemic, 210 students from community colleges responded to the survey (with a total of 1,143 respondents). Below are some of our key findings specifically for community college…...

Dec 10, 2020

The Success of GivingTuesday during 2020

This GivingTuesday was like no other. We’re in the middle of a pandemic impacting all our lives in some way and this led to some degree of uncertainty about how much support GivingTuesday would generate – especially given the successful…...

Dec 3, 2020

Heightened Issues of Student Success

Student success has always been a top priority for higher education institutions – and many colleges have been able to build and refine their student success programs over years to a high degree of accuracy. But what happens when a…...

Nov 6, 2020

Giving Tuesday Tips

This year’s Giving Tuesday will be unlike any other; however, Giving Tuesday will still provide an opportunity to encourage graduates to support your institution....

Oct 12, 2020

Comparing Course Evaluation Qualitative Data During COVID-19

For this blog post, qualitative data from student written comments were compared across the two-year period. Similar to the quantitative results, we found no meaningful differences in the average word count, proportions of negative and positive words, content of word clouds, sentiments, linguistic complexity, and...

Sep 28, 2020

Using Engagement Data to Adjust Strategy

Gaining insight into who and how they are engaging with the institution allows you to tailor specific strategies to groups of individuals. One example that many schools already use are recent alumni programs – these resonate with a subset of the recent alumni population....

Sep 28, 2020

Measuring Student Impact Across Time and Effort

Entering a school year that looks very different from what we’re familiar with, there is more of a priority than ever for colleges to create cocurricular experiences that translate to learning and promote the skills employers want. It is not enough to believe we are...

Sep 26, 2020

On Your Mark, Get Set, Go! A Runner’s Guide to Combating Donor Fatigue

In the world of long distance running, fatigue is a necessary piece of the training process. Marathon runners must find the delicate balance of logging an exhaustive number of miles and workouts while also allowing the body time to recover....