College is complicated.

After extensive consultation with campus constituents and a thorough software review process, the University of Vermont has partnered with the Education Advisory Board’s Student Success Collaborative (SSC). In this partnership, we hope to help students and advisors navigate the many available resources that promote student success, during their UVM years and beyond.

We joined the Student Success Collaborative because we want to:

  • Enhance the student experience
  • Create effective and efficient practices in advising
  • Improve retention and graduation rates

Led by faculty, staff and academic leadership, the implementation of the SSC will impact our ability to support undergraduate students from enrollment to graduation. The SSC is a comprehensive solution that brings together historical data analytics with advisor workflow and student communication tools to deliver smarter, personalized support to each student. This functionality will allow the University of Vermont to improve undergraduate student retention and the percentage of undergraduate students graduating in four years.

An advisor-facing web application and a mobile application for student use make up the EAB SSC management system, called Navigate360.

 

Education Advisory Board

The Education Advisory Board (EAB) serves more than 1,200 colleges and university members by helping to address their most critical challenges. They do this by forging and finding proven best practices that can then be hardwired on campus through technologies and services. Among EAB’s partners are high-performing research institutions, such as University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Stony Brook University (SUNY).

A primary goal of EAB is to make education smarter. In this vein, they focus their research around three central areas: enrollment management, student success and growth and academic operations.

As a member of the Student Success Collaborative, UVM benefits from:

  • Support-dedicated consulting
  • Access to a progressive student success conference (CONNECTED)
  • A customized best practice library & monthly webconferences
  • Much more

Visit the EAB website to create an EAB account, view their best practices research library or learn more about their products, including the Student Success Collaborative.