Ross breaks down a quick mid-year recap, highlighting the Holistic Student Success Research Group, the Blueprint Collaborative, and what's ahead in 2025.

This month, Ross is joined by Renée Delgado-Riley from the University of Oregon. As CV2's first REPEAT guest, Renée brings even more great insights as they discuss ways to better drive student success conversations, culture, and practice across college campuses.

This month, Ross sits down with Paul Mabrey from James Madison University. In his role as Director of Student Success & Enrollment Analytics, Paul helps coordinate many of JMU's campus-wide, data-informed student success strategies. Listen in to the conversation to learn about the key strategies and mindsets used by campus student success leaders, as well as some of the steps they've taken to organize JMU toward a new vision of student success.

We were so honored to have Dr. Hoori Kalamkarian from the Community College Research Center with us to talk about strategic student support. Whether we were talking about first-gen students, the word "advising," or bringing together two and four-year schools, it was a great way to kick off a new season as we dive into some new student success topics.

No Andrea this week - sorry! - but we are luck enough to be joined by Dr. Jillian Kinzie. Trained in student affairs, Jillian has spent an impressive career working in both student learning outcomes and student success.

Oh, and don't miss out on this heavily discussed reference:

https://nces.ed.gov/npec/pdf/kuh_team_report.pdf

This month, focusing on converting data into information and information into action, Ross and Andrea welcome Renee Delgado-Riley - Director, Assessment & Research, for the Division of Student Life at the University of Oregon and the current President of the Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL). Their conversations range from personal journeys to cultures of data use and beyond.

This week, Ross and Andrea are joined by a special guest: Chris Hulleman from the University of Virginia! Chris' expertise in implementation fidelity blends well with Andrea's observations about program theory. Listen in for Ross' keen insight that "assessment is counseling for introverts."

This week, Ross & Andrea discuss advising and the critical role it plays in student success. They discuss promising strategies, practices, and research that can help colleges and universities refocus on the role of advising in a way that best supports student success in the long-term, not just in picking majors and scheduling classes.

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Find the Chronicle of Higher Education's Future of Advising Report here: https://store.chronicle.com/products/the-future-of-advising

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Ross and Andrea discuss onboarding - including assessment, placement, and remediation - recent developments in developmental education, and the various impacts on students and their success.

Can placement be reimagined to better support student success? We think so...

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Ross and Andrea discuss the role of sense of belonging in student success, including how it is defined, how we can identify and target students, and how we should think about interventions.

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