First-Year Success

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First-year experience is where retention is won or lost. Posts for teams building FYE programming, support, and belonging.

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Higher Education

What is student belonging, and how do you measure it?

A plain definition of student belonging, plus three trackable ways to measure it: surveys, participation data, and retention.

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Higher Education

How Purdue Handles 8,000 Students in 4 Days

An operational look at how Purdue's Boiler Gold Rush absorbs 8,000 students across four days starting at move-in, and the portable tactics behind it.

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Higher Education

How to plan a Welcome Week that doesn't stop at orientation

A how-to for student affairs teams: plan Welcome Week as a multi-week engagement arc, not a single day, with a mobile app carrying momentum from orientation into the semester.

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Higher Education

What is FYE (First-Year Experience) in higher education?

Definitional explainer of the First-Year Experience: what FYE means, its core components, why it drives retention, and how peer institutions run it.

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Higher Education

How UNLV's College Orientation App Replaced Every Printed Program

See how UNLV runs a 5,000-student orientation without printing a single page, and how they use orientation app data for student retention.

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Higher Education

He Built 30+ Custom Schedules Across 5 Colleges at The New School. Here's the Blueprint.

The New School manages orientation across 5 colleges with 30+ personalized student schedules. Built by one person. Here's how they did it.

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Higher Education

How Purdue Welcomes 8,000 Students Without Losing the Human Touch

See how Purdue’s orientation strategy helps 8,000 new students feel connected and supported, blending scale with a personal, human touch.

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