The Office of the Provost invites faculty and staff to attend a keynote discussion from 8 – 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 18, in the Biotechnology Life Sciences Building, Room 402, as well as via videoconference. The talk is on “The Emerging Discipline of Student Success Management: How to graduate more students, in less time, with better post-graduate outcomes,” featuring Ed Venit of the Education Advisory Board.
Ed Venit is a managing director with EAB. He serves as the firm’s leading expert on best practices in student success, retention, graduation, advising, financial aid and student data analysis.
Venit’s current research focuses on the use of data analytics to transform academic advising. By studying course completion patterns associated with success and failure, colleges and universities can work to remove unseen barriers to degree completion and proactively intervene with students who have fallen off path.
Previously, Venit led research to produce the national best practice report, Hardwiring Student Success, the culmination of more than 200 interviews with success practitioners and 20 months of research. This report profiled sixteen case studies from exemplar institutions investing in data-driven early warning strategies to identify students for proactive follow-up from support services.
Venit holds a PhD in evolutionary biology from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree in biology, also from Duke.
EAB works with WSU to provide a predictive analytics advising and institutional analytics tool called the Student Success Collaborative Campus, along with a mobile app for students called Guide.
An open discussion and workshop will follow the keynote, facilitated by Michael Heim and Sara Ackerson of the Academic Success and Career Center. The discussion and workshop will focus on how the Campus tool and Guide app work, and how to access other EAB resources and webinars. If you have questions, please contact Erica Austin at eaustin@wsu.edu.
The Emerging Discipline of Student Success Management:
How to graduate more students, in less time, with better post-graduate outcomes
January 18, 2018
8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Biotechnology Life Sciences Building, Room 402
