Creating Our Future What’s Next for Student Success

Description: Dr. Ed Venit explores, through the lens of strategic foresight, how current trends, issues, and events in higher education and beyond will shape the success of future students. By understanding these forces shaping our world, we can anticipate the scenarios that lie ahead and take steps to guide ourselves to the future we want. You will come away with a better understanding of where student success is heading and how you can shape your institutions to best support the students of tomorrow.

Bio:

Ed Venit manages student success research for EAB. In this capacity, Ed leads the development and dissemination of best practices for using data and technology to improve retention and graduation rates. Ed provides consultative guidance to senior leadership across the Student Success Collaborative and is responsible for understanding shifting needs and trends. He has over a decade of experience researching data analytics and student success technologies.

Ed presents at conferences using case studies to highlight how looming demographic declines are forcing colleges and universities to rethink student retention as an enrollment challenge. This new mindset is triggering investment in proactive advising and the development of support strategies that pay for themselves (and more) in retention gains. By documenting and sharing these trends, Ed hopes to help senior leaders develop self-sustaining strategies that graduate far more students.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Student Success and Experience, Strategy

SPECIALTIES

Student Success, Data and Analytics, At-Risk Students, Academic Advising, Administrative Efficiency and Effectiveness, Demographic Forecasting, Public-Private Partnerships