On Demand Webinar: Learn proven ways to develop and implement successful student success strategies. College Possible’s eight free on-demand webinars provide actionable items that enable leaders like you to retain and inspire more students from underserved backgrounds.
Empowering Equitable College Persistence in Remarkable Times
According to Inside Higher Education, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt most by students of color.
University Leaders assemble to discuss the biggest challenges facing their institutions and share success stories they’ve experienced in supporting equitable persistence in a post-pandemic world.
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Partnering to Drive Better Retention
Learn how California State University, Stanislaus is leveraging strategic partnerships to support more equitable student outcomes.
Hear from Gabriela Nuño, Director of the Academic Success Center at CSU Stanislaus and unpack the strategic partnerships they used to achieve meaningful student retention outcomes on their campuses in California’s Central Valley.
Gabriela Nuño discusses the importance of partnerships at Stan State
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Driving Student Success
Become a catalyst for increasing the success of students from low-income backgrounds at your institution. Explore how near-peer coaching programs like Catalyze mobilize successful student outcomes across campuses nationwide.
Mary Lawman discusses how the Coach-Supervisor relationship works in a near-peer model
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Welcoming Students Back
Hear how campuses are innovating to support a safe return to in-person campus student life using near-peer coaches.
Dr. Lisa Holstrom discusses lessons and takeaways from pandemic-era initiatives at UC
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Eliminating Hidden Obstacles: Tactics for Improving Student Persistence in Higher Education
Dig deep and learn proven tactics aimed at improving student persistence to degree completion. Consider actions that address deeper inequities faced by historically marginalized students both on campus and in the larger system. Hear directly from the voices of those who have persisted and grow inspired with valuable takeaways to implement right away.
Dr. Ashley Rondini discusses ways institutions can better serve first-generation students
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University Leaders Talk Retention Strategies for Underserved Students During COVID
University leaders share how their student success intervention strategies have changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn practical, high-impact tactics your staff can use to increase retention rates during COVID.
Dr. Amy Gort discusses strategies used during the pandemic to improve student success
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Empowering Success: A Near-Peer Coaching Discussion
Hear directly from College Possible Catalyze near-peer coaches as they share the real-life experiences and challenges of students they support.
Dr. Lisa Holstrom discusses how data supports near-peer coaching model
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Investing in Brilliance: Empowering Students from Low-Income Backgrounds
Campus Leaders and College Possible Catalyze coaches gather to share real-world, practical insights and proven strategies to support persistence among students from low-income backgrounds.
Dr. Lisa Holstrom discusses choosing Catalyze's near-peer coaching model
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WHITE PAPER: “Persist: Near-Peer Coaching’s Impact in Closing the College Completion Gap”
Catalyze near-peer coaches help students from low-income backgrounds persist through degree completion. Download the white paper and you will:
About College Possible: As one of the largest and most successful college access and success programs in the country, since 2000 College Possible has helped put more than 59,000 students from disinvested communities on the path to economic mobility via completion of a college degree.
Its proven near-peer coaching model, delivered by recent college graduates serving as AmeriCorps members, provides high-touch interventions proven to help students navigate and overcome the most common barriers to college access, retention and degree completion. Nationwide, College Possible students are three times more likely to earn a bachelor's degree within six years than their peers from similar backgrounds.
Headquartered in Saint Paul, MN, College Possible operates: regional sites in Chicago, IL; Milwaukee, WI; Omaha, NE; Philadelphia, PA; Portland, OR; and Seattle, WA; College Forward in Austin, WA; and has Catalyze partnerships in California, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee. Learn more at CollegePossible.org.