Student Success Doyle Student Sense of Belonging Inventory 05/10/202509/18/2025 Doyle Sense of Belonging Inventory (2025) Ten years ago, a team of student success staff and I at Baylor University discovered that if a student self-reported that they belonged at…
Student Success Using Summer Engagement with Students as Powerful Predictor of Future Success 05/08/202506/05/2025 The Real Reason Why Students Get Summer Off Summer holds a unique place in the history of the U.S. and education – but not for the reason most people think.…
Student Success Do College Rankings Prioritize Student Success? 04/24/202505/11/2025 As a formal sports fanatic, especially of college sport rankings, in recent years I have transferred this interest to a topic slightly more meaningful - college rankings. If you don't…
Student Success 9 Needs for Student Persistence 04/16/202504/17/2025 What Students Ideally Need Before Starting College Health – are students successfully managing their physical and emotional health? Purpose – do students know what they want to study in college…
Student Success Achieving Goals Template 04/09/2025 What follows is a time-tested and simple but thorough 7-step template for setting and achieving goals. You do not have to complete each of these 7-steps, but the more steps…
Student Success Holistic Advising: Is Student Support Too Decentralized to Best Help Students Succeed? 03/29/202504/29/2025 A shorter version of this article was published by University Business in April 2025. Two Parables Mr. Patel, a 62-year-old retired school principal, was experiencing chronic fatigue, joint pain, and…
Student Success The Research is Clear – Cut Down on Lecturing in Classes (and/or Giving Long Sermons in Churches) 03/23/2025 From Chapter 9 of Adam Grant's Think Again One class is a lecture. The second is an active-learning session. In both cases the content and the handouts are identical; the…
Student Success 10 Most Proven Methods for Real Learning: Myelin Applied 02/24/2025 One of my, and many others', favorite colleagues at Baylor University was Dr. Rishi Sriram. Dr. Rishi, as students often call him, has the incredible gift of being a deep…
Student Success 4E Student Development Model 01/04/2025 I created the 4E Student Development Model to provide myself, my colleagues, and my students, with a theory for how students should approach their co-curriculum experiences. It makes common sense…
Student Success 60,000 College Graduates Reveal What Makes a Great College Experience 12/31/2024 These are what I consider the Key Findings on College Worth from Gallup-Purdue Index (2015) The Gallup-Purdue Index results reaffirmed the importance to students of supportive relationships with faculty and…
Student Success Ranking College Student Retention Software based on Predictive Analytics Ability 07/28/202408/28/2024 Doyle - Retention Software AnalysisDownload
Student Success Matrix of Student Success – A 2×2 w/ Social & Academic Engagement 07/07/202407/07/2024 Multiple years of my and colleagues' research has revealed that students' sense of belonging is the one factor more predictive of student persistence (retention) than other variable except for grade…
Student Success The Penguin Promise – How to Ensure Students Get a Good Job After College 07/06/2024 I developed this program for a private college. It is based on my understanding of best practices in student success and in studying how 7 other colleges are approaching this…
Student Success “Find Your Way” College Student Coaching 03/19/202403/19/2024 The Path to Discovering Your Strengths and Clarifying Your Career The Challenge Students today spend years preparing to get into the right college. Once they do, a wave of relief…
Student Success Improve Retention by Linking Scholarships to High Impact Practices 01/11/202401/11/2024 It was my first day at work at a university over 1,500 miles from my home. We were at a retreat in the Texas Hill Country and I was much…
Student Success One Method for Discovering Why Students Really Leave Your University 01/01/202403/01/2024 When new students show up to college, the red carpet is rolled out – orientation can become a mini-pep rally and move-in has volunteers galore greeting families with smiling and…
Student Success 100 Variables Often Not Used to Predict Student Persistence 12/27/202306/09/2025 When I worked at Southern Methodist University as the Director of Student Success & Retention, I was in a perfect position to partner with colleagues and guide a process for…
Student Success Letter to Families Of College Students 12/21/202312/28/2023 ...to Help Their Student Stand Out When Compared to Other Graduates One Day
Student Success The Billion Dollar Result From Making My Big Idea Come to Life 11/28/202307/21/2024 Almost two years ago I published an article called, “My Big Idea for Student Success.” It was an idea to improve student success in college that is rarely used in…
Deep Thoughts Articles… Why a Focus on Organizational Performance Can Be More Important than Relationships with Students 08/15/202212/07/2023 A copy of this article appeared in EdSurge (reports on the people, ideas and tools shaping the future of learning) on August 1, 2022. Not All Student Affairs Staff are…
Student Success An Institutional Maturity Model for Student Success 04/29/202212/28/2023 How is the university designed and prepared for maximum impact on students? The following 20 strategic areas within universities offer a continuum on which institutions' can evaluate their institutional efforts…
Student Success Missing Data that Will Improve Student Success Predictions 06/27/202107/14/2024 This table accompanies the article My Big Idea for Student Success. 00 p.s. special thanks to Wendy Grier, Regional Vice President, Nelnet, for the ideas on the Financial Transactions section
Student Success My Big Idea for Student Success 06/27/202107/21/2024 How many really big ideas do you have? I bet you have some good ones – I hope we all do. I recently decided the likelihood of me implementing some…
Deep Thoughts Articles… A Hierarchy of Needs for Student Success 05/19/202112/07/2023 Over 75 years ago, at only the age of 35 years old, Abraham Maslow wrote a paper called “A Theory of Human Motivation,” in which he created the foundation for…
Student Success Why Not Going to College Immediately After High School Might Be a Decision to Consider 09/02/202012/07/2023 Would you rather win the silver or bronze medal at the Olympics? Most people select the silver medal. But did you know that research studies of the faces of silver…
Student Success When Students and Faculty are Online, How DO Student Affairs/Academic Staff Have an Impact? 04/07/202012/07/2023 Originally published on April 7 in Inside Higher Ed. Overview This article steps back from existing structures and staff within student affairs and academic support services and reimagine what might…
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