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Impact the Student Outcomes that Matter Most: Introducing Multi Outcome Insights
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Ensuring that students eventually graduate isn’t enough to drive sustainable institutions. Higher Education must also prepare and develop students to reach their goals. A student’s journey—and how prepared they feel for life after college—directly impacts long-term success.
Yet many institutions struggle to adopt a broader approach to student impact due to systemic barriers, such as departmental silos and limited access to actionable insights. Without collaboration and a unified view of student data, they only see fragments of the bigger picture.
To make a real impact, institutions need a complete understanding of the student experience and access to outcomes that factor in the many facets of being successful on campus. This allows them to shape the student outcomes that matter most to them.
Introducing the Multi Outcome Insights: Optimize What Matters Most
Colleges and universities must broaden their measures of success beyond traditional metrics such as retention and completion to remain competitive, attract top students, and enhance institutional reputation. An expanded approach to evaluating performance ensures that institutions meet their goals while providing the support students need to thrive.
Built into the Civitas Learning Student Impact Platform, Multi Outcome Insights empower institutions to define, predict, and enhance the outcomes that matter most. Civitas Learning customers have already leveraged these insights to predict persistence likelihood, identify key success factors, and measure the impact of their initiatives. With access to predictive insights across multiple outcomes, institutions can customize Multi Outcome Insights to focus on what aligns with their mission and goals.
Flexible, data-driven models built for your institution provide real-time visibility into engagement, career readiness, and other critical success factors, eliminating the need to rely solely on summative data at the end of the term. Institutions can adapt predictive models as priorities evolve, ensuring they remain responsive to student needs. With Multi Outcome Insights, Civitas Learning customers can drive improvements in key areas such as:
- Student Thriving: Proactively identify students who may be struggling and ensure they receive timely support to help them succeed.
- Community Engagement: Strengthen a sense of belonging by promoting campus involvement and meaningful peer-to-peer and faculty interactions.
- Career Readiness: Ensure students are on the right path toward securing jobs in their chosen fields and improve post-graduation career outcomes.
- Academic Performance: Detect and predict shifts in academic performance to mitigate risks and provide proactive support.
Product Features: What Sets This Approach Apart?
Every institution faces unique challenges and goals in supporting students. Institutions need a flexible, integrated models that deliver predictive insights tailored to their priorities. By providing a wider variety of insight into student outcomes, Multi Outcome Insights enhances the understanding of different aspects of the student experience.
Key Features of Multi Outcome Insights:
- Customizable Predictive Models: Ready-to-use models can be customized to fit specific needs, enabling teams to monitor the student outcomes that matter most, like campus engagement, academic performance, or career readiness. This approach allows a broadened focus and can quickly adapt as your definitions of success evolve.
- Interactive Dashboards for Actionable Insights: User-friendly dashboards enable institutions to visualize predictions, filter data, and drill down into specific student populations to inform strategic decision-making and resource allocation.
- Powerful Predictors for Informed Decision-Making: Identify the key factors influencing each predicted outcome, helping institutions understand what drives student success and where to focus efforts for maximum impact.
- Integrated Data Warehouse for Comprehensive Analysis: Conduct ad hoc reporting and in-depth analysis by accessing model outputs alongside other institutional data, enabling a more holistic view of student success.
- Initiative Impact Analysis: Evaluate the effectiveness of institutional programs on any predictive model, allowing institutions to measure impact, refine strategies, and make data-driven adjustments.
- Prediction Change Tracking: Monitor shifts in student predictions over time to quickly identify emerging trends, risks, or opportunities—and assess the impact of interventions.
With Multi Outcome Insights, institutions can see the complete student picture and tailor insights to what matters most. Some focus on boosting retention, while others prioritize career readiness. Flexible, adaptive predictive models built for your institution seamlessly align with your unique goals.
Turning Insights Into Action
The Multi Outcome Insights equips key stakeholders—including Provosts, VPs of Student and Academic Affairs, Academic Deans, VPs of Enrollment, Directors of Career Services, Financial Aid, and Student Life—with actionable insights tailored to their priorities.
With access to predictive analytics and real-time insights, institutional leaders can:
- Foster Student Success: Student support teams can identify and address factors affecting engagement, academic performance, and well-being. They can easily monitor concerning behaviors like low participation or frequent absences, signaling a need for early intervention.
- Optimize Institutional Resources: Academic leaders can prioritize high-impact initiatives to maximize time, staff, and budget. Understanding what works to enhance a variety of outcomes allows leaders to allocate resources better and connect students to the most impactful supports.
- Enhance Enrollment and Retention: Enrollment and Student Success teams can refine recruitment and retention strategies by better understanding who is at risk of not enrolling and who isn’t engaged or on track to graduate on time. Helping them implement more effective interventions at scale.
- Ensure Financial Integrity: Financial aid teams can detect and prevent fraud, ensuring compliance and accountability while protecting institutional resources.
- Advance Fundraising Efforts: Development teams can strengthen alumni engagement and donor outreach. Career services can track top-performing graduates and encourage them to participate in mentorship programs.
- Drive Sustainable Growth: Leadership teams can make data-informed decisions to ensure long-term institutional stability, growth, and success.
By leveraging Multi Outcome Insights, institutions can transform data into action, creating a stronger, more student-centered experience while improving operational efficiency and long-term impact.
Extend the Reach of Your Data
As institutions increasingly prioritize the complete student experience—beyond traditional metrics like persistence and completion—Multi Outcome Insights provides a personalized, data-driven strategy that drives meaningful outcomes and long-term student success.
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