A Data Driven Resource for Evolving Student Supports

Driving toward a Degree 2021: Overcoming Persistent Barriers to Student Success

Four areas of concern are identified as perennial issues to improving success for all through student supports

Caseload’s Impact on Student Success & Advising Practices

In the first of four research briefs we focus caseloads as a perennial barrier to improving advising.

Key insights:

  • Caseload impacts whether certain advising practices can be scaled
  • There is a statistically significant negative relationship between the size of caseloads and retention rates at four-year institutions (public and private)