Strategic Partnership & Services

It's not just about technology. It's about making it work.

Close the loop between insight, action, and outcomes across every team, with former higher education leaders who have done this work.

Meet your strategic team

Every partner is matched with a dedicated Strategic Director: a former higher education practitioner who has led student-facing teams, been through accreditation, and presented to boards. They know the work because they have done it. They work with your team to set priorities, guide execution, and grow what you do with the platform.

  • Meredith Baker
  • Gina Chase, M.S.
  • Sarah B. DeMeo, M.B.A., M.Ed.
  • Robert Freidhoff, M.Ed.
  • Dr. Benjamin M. Forche
  • Jacqueline Harris
  • Dr. Nathan B. Miller
  • Dr. Krystin McCauley Watkins

What every partnership includes

Strategic support is part of the subscription, not an hourly engagement. Technology alone does not change outcomes, so we do not hand over software and leave you to turn it into impact.

  • A named Strategic Director who knows your data, your students, and your goals
  • Enablement and training for the staff and faculty who use the platform every day
  • Predictive models that we refresh and manage, so your team does not maintain them
  • The integration work and the model build, included
  • Help to make insight part of everyday practice, and evidence that is ready before the board asks

A flexible partnership built for sustained student impact

We extend the Institutional Impact Platform beyond technology, into your workflows, strategy, and decisions. Every partnership includes strategic guidance, ongoing enablement, and dedicated support. Strategic Services goes further for institutions that want deeper collaboration and faster progress: more time with your strategic team and more hands-on support around your goals.

A flexible partnership built for sustained student impact

The software does not change outcomes. What your teams do with it does.

Most institutions have invested in data and student success technology. Many still cannot turn it into impact.

  • Adoption varies by team, so insight that could change outcomes goes unused.
  • With no standard path from signal to intervention, the moment passes.
  • Leaders cannot show progress, and the evidence is not ready when it is needed.
  • Accreditors, state funders, and boards are demanding evidence of effectiveness.

Focus your partnership where it matters most

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Change Management

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Training & Enablement

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Role-Specific Insights & Recommendations

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Program & Initiative Assessment

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Best Practices Recommendations

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Advanced Analytics & Strategic Advisory

A partnership that meets you where you are, and grows with you

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A foundation for success

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Built around your priorities

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Designed to grow with you

How we work with each team

For Student Success and Retention Teams

For Student Success and Retention Teams

For Student Success and Retention Teams

For IE & IR Teams

For IE & IR Teams

For IE & IR Teams

For Academic Affairs Teams

For Academic Affairs Teams

For Academic Affairs Teams

For Institutional Technology Leaders

For Institutional Technology Leaders

For Institutional Technology Leaders

Join a community of partners shaping what is next

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Leadership Workshops

live, interactive sessions with peer institutions

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The Innovation Council

an invitation-only group that helps shape what we build next

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Roundtables, forums, and conference sessions where partners present their own work

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Your data stays yours

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What partners say
“Usually once you go through implementation and sign off, you move over to a whole other kind of customer. The responsiveness slows down. With Civitas Learning, that shift never happened.”
Sara GreerDirector of IT–Web Services, Del Mar College
“I just feel like you folks are part of our work group here. I don't feel like you're a separate company.”
Dr. John RindyAssociate Vice President for Career & Academic Progress, Slippery Rock University
“It's not just about software. It's about getting people to see what's possible when we work together and then building something that reflects everyone's needs.”
Linda KucinskiBusiness Analyst, Lawrence Technological University
Frequently asked questions

Questions institutions ask about strategic partnership & services

Short answers, in the words a cabinet uses. For anything not here, ask us directly.

What does the Civitas partnership include beyond software?

A Customer Development team that works with your stakeholders on adoption, impact, and continuous improvement: choosing what to measure, reading results with you, and planning next term.

Is this a paid professional services engagement?

No. The partnership is part of the subscription, not a separate hourly statement of work. How pricing works →

Who do we work with after we go live?

The same team. The people who learn your data, calendar, and politics stay with you instead of handing off to a support queue.

What does the first year usually look like?

Integration and model build, then adoption with the teams who act daily, then first measured results at the end of a term — once a cohort has had an intervention and a comparison group exists.

What if our team turns over?

The models, definitions, and measurement record stay with the institution, not the person who set them up. That is the difference between an operating model and a project.

Next step

Bring your questions. Leave with an estimate you can defend.

A 45-minute working session: we start from your public IPEDS figures, show what the platform found at institutions like yours, and size the outcome — before anyone touches your data.