No HEDS workshops are currently scheduled.
HEDS Student Success Workshops give you or a team from your institution focused time, space, and support to reflect on student success at your institution. The product of these workshops is a plan that summarizes the current landscape for these efforts at your institution and details next steps for your work. You can share this plan with institutional leaders and others at your institution to garner support and use it to guide your work going forward.
A Guided Retreat
We design our workshops to serve as an opportunity for people to step back from the hectic pace of everyday work and reflect on, think about, and plan next steps in the company of supportive colleagues. We provide a project planning template that we’ve developed based on years of experience on student success projects at colleges and universities across the country. Our workshops are staffed by facilitators who provide support and guidance throughout the workshop, working directly with participants to help them develop and sharpen their plans. We also create opportunities for participants to share their plans and get feedback from one another.
A Customized Plan
The most important step in improving student success is to understand how to structure and customize best practices to the unique culture, values, and structures of your institution. Our focus is on helping you think about best practices and how to bring people from across your institution together to tune those practices to improve student success at your campus. Every institution is different, and that means every institution needs to build an approach that will be effective in its context. There is no standardized approach.
We post workshop schedules to this webpage when they are set. Generally, workshop sessions will include:
- Short, informal presentations from participants about their institution and the goals of their student success work to date.
- Presentation by HEDS staff on overall findings from the hundreds of institutions that have participated in HEDS surveys on student success.
- Time for participants to develop their project plans.
- Poster session in which participants present their plans for student success work at their institutions.
- Concluding session on working through common challenges in student success projects.
These workshops can support plan development for a wide range of projects, such as developing new retention data models, preparing for accreditation, making sense of and using data you’ve already collected, revising first-year programs, creating new faculty development programs, revising an early alert system, etc.
We usually host HEDS Workshops at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where HEDS maintains offices. However, we may also host at member institution campuses around the country. If you are a member institution interested in hosting a HEDS-run Student Success Workshop on your campus, please contact us.