The Office of the Provost is pleased to invite faculty and staff to attend a keynote discussion from 8-9:30 a.m. on Thursday, January 18, in BLS 402 and over AMS. 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 Dr. Ed Venit of the Education Advisory Board (EAB).
Ed Venit is a Managing Director with EAB. He serves as the firm’s leading expert on best practices in student success, retention and graduation, advising, financial aid, and student data analysis.
Dr. 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, Dr. Venit led research to produce the national best practice report Hardwiring Student Success, the culmination of over 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.
Dr. 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, from 9:30-11 a.m. in BLS 402 and over AMS, facilitated by Michael Heim and Sara Ackerson of the Academic Success and Career Center. About keynote topics, 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.
