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Keep up with the latest insights and ideas for achieving your goals in higher education

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How to Ask for and Accept Help

How to Ask for and Accept Help

Asking for help can be uncomfortable, but advocating for yourself is an essential part of achieving success. Here are some tips for reaching out and getting the guidance you need.

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The New York Times Dives Into ‘The Dropout Crisis.’ Here Are Our Takeaways.

While graduation rate is not the only indicator of success, it’s a metric many prospective students (and accreditors) pay attention to when evaluating schools. Unfortunately, these completion rates aren’t as high as most colleges and universities would like.  At ReUp Education, we’re aware of how the declining U.S. college graduation rate contributes to the overall inequalities in society. That’s why we were so drawn to a recent piece in The New York Times. Driven by the desire to address the nation’s education gap, the Times, along with experts from the Urban Institute’s Center for Education and Data Policy, embarked on

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Retention – Putting the Truth to Work

These six truths will mean different things to different campuses – certainly, in your environment, you will know best how to convert the truth into action to drive improved retention. Here are some questions to ask your leadership team that may help point the way to new initiatives, or modifications to current programs, in order to increase student engagement and retention: TRUTH ONE: SOME STUDENTS LEAVE, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO. Take inventory of your retention initiatives (particularly those that cost meaningful time or money). How many of them are aimed at keeping students who would stay anyway? Are any

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