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...

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...

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...

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...