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Join Raftr and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University next Thursday for this panel webinar about supporting new student success and engagement.

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🎉 Last Day of Summer Session Classes! 🎉 Congratulations to all East Tennessee State University online students for completing the summer session! Your hard work and dedication have paid off, and we are incredibly proud of your achievements. As you wrap up your classes, we want to celebrate our graduates. Are you graduating this summer? Comment below and share your accomplishments with us! #Graduation 

Simpson College is Iowa’s top-ranked college and #6 overall in the recently released 2025 U.S. News & World Report Regional Midwest Rankings. Simpson is also #1 in Iowa for “Best Value” and “Best Undergraduate Teaching” – while also earning a #4 overall ranking in both categories. Read more → bit.ly/47Gqhe6

I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to be a part of Bay Path University and Cambridge College. Today is a transformational day for all of us here. I am incredibly proud of our fidelity to our missions, our commitment to the communities we serve, our teammates, and our impact on higher education. #StrongerTogether I am also grateful for you, Sandra J. Doran, Michael Giampietro, Kathleen Bourque, Natalia Blank, PhD, Stephen Healey, Niti Seth, Dennis J. Madigan, CMA, our Board of Trustees, and the rest of the teams that trusted me to lead Phase 1 of the acquisition. We did it! Special kudos to the Phase 1 project team; I am a better professional for working with you: Jeremy Anderson, Jessica Sabbagh (rock star), Brittany Riley, MBA, and Susan Poglinco, PhD (and the Core team). I am even more grateful for the continued confidence in me and our super-talented project team as we lead the next phase of this process: Tracy McLaughlin, Shirley Montovani, Madison McGrath, Jonathan Besse, and Susan Poglinco, PhD. Thank you for being tremendous partners, thought leaders, and accountability partners. I am super excited about the work ahead. Collectively, we will think holistically about what it means to serve students, how to continue to make a profound and lasting impact in our communities, and how to transform ourselves and our organization. #BayPathUniversityProud. #CambridgeCollegeProud. #Transformation.

For many high school students, summer learning is a critical time to get back on track to graduate. Some districts are reimagining the traditional credit recovery model by combining academics with enrichment activities to help students learn and grow. This new Summer Snapshot digs into how Manchester Public School District in Connecticut and Oakland Unified School District in California are doing just that and seeing results. Read this new snapshot from FHI 360, funded by The Wallace Foundation, to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gNAFuXiJ

Higher Education is facing headwinds like never before. If you are heading to the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) Annual Conference in Philly in July, please stop by our session to hear our panelists discuss this timely topic! #gensler #purposeofcampus

I thought this was a nice write-up from Jane Swift, former Governor of Massachusetts, on the link between work - and who works - and student attrition, and what we can do about it. Additional connections to make beyond the article is you can, at the Clearinghouse website in their completing college reports, review NSC 6-year grad rate data to see that students who enroll exclusively full-time, whether at two- or four-year colleges, graduate at triple-to-five-times the rate of those who attend exclusively part-time --- gaps that are larger, and in fact predictive, of others, especially by race and the age bin of 20-24. As the piece here from Higher Ed Dive notes, attrition is particularly correlated with working 20 and, especialy, 28 hours per week (note, more than a third of cc students work 40+ hrs.) The bottom-line is that time is the enemy of college completion - which can be attacked in student success reforms like coreq remediation, dual enrollment, academic planning, and more, and in affordability and basic needs policy work. https://lnkd.in/gZTk2HZF (Note - Jane Swift was a great speaker at our Complete College America Annual Convening last year in Vegas. Register for this year if you haven't already, https://lnkd.in/g9KvE2Q4 #CCAAllIn2024).

Big things happening for GT

2024) – New national rankings from the Wall Street Journal of America’s top 500 universities recognize North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University as the nation’s No. 1 public historically Black university. The Wall Street Journal/College Pulse rankings evaluate “how well each college sets graduates up for financial success … how much a school improves students’ chances of graduating and their future earnings,” WSJ says. “We don’t measure reputation, nor the college’s own finances.” The rankings include 14 HBCU campuses, eight of them public. Trailing N.C. A&T among public campuses are, in order: Florida A&M University, North Carolina Central University, Prairie View University, Tennessee State University, Savannah State University, Jackson State University and Alcorn State University.