New on WCET Frontiers
Increasing Adult Graduates through Sharing: The Adult College Completion Network
Published by: WCET | 5/31/2011
Late last year, Lumina Foundation announced its financial support for 19 projects seeking to dramatically increase the number of adults who complete their postsecondary degrees. WICHE’s grant differed from the others as it is tasked with bringing together representatives of […]
Learning Analytics – Discovering What Students REALLY Need to Succeed
Published by: WCET | 5/11/2011
“Learning Analytics” is a term used to describe an emerging professional practice that systematically applies statistics and research methods to large “n” data sets. Analysts look for patterns among the analyzed results that can inform more accountable decision-making. It’s not […]
Practice
The “Connected College”: Secrets to Improving Student Retention
Published by: WCET | 9/22/2010
Shannon Meadows is one of the co-leaders of WCET’s Student Retention Common Interest Group. We were pleased that she accepted our invitation to blog about successful campus strategies that she has witnessed. Imagine a female community college student in an […]