Resources
Explore Innovative Approaches:
Bridging Strategic Finance and Student Success
The NACUBO Student Success Hub offers a range of resources that prioritize student outcomes within strategic financial practices. To help users navigate these resources, the Hub organizes these resources into thematic and functional toolkits. Review the content below to help you:
- Understand how the toolkits are organized
- Utilize the Toolkit Finder to meet your institutional needs
- Learn how to navigate the toolkits
- Get guidance on customizing tools for your institution
Join the NACUBO Student Success Hub Community
You are invited you to join a dynamic community of institutions leveraging the NACUBO Student Success Hub to enhance student outcomes. For newcomers, we encourage you to peruse the introductory content below and learn how to find the toolkits that most likely meet your needs. Visit this site for regular resource updates and share the information with colleagues in higher education. If you're a returning user, click the button in the upper right to access the toolkits directly.
Toolkits Organized by Focus Areas
The toolkits are organized across three focus areas to ensure comprehensive support and targeted approaches. By organizing the toolkits within these focus areas, NACUBO ensures that institutions can easily access and implement the resources most relevant to their specific challenges and goals.
Data to Inform Decisions:
Infrastructure, Analytics, and Usage
This focus area offers toolkits to support institutional efforts to create or enhance a sustainable 'system of knowledge management' that provides consistent visibility, accountability, and data accuracy to inform financial decisions.
Financial Resource Optimization
for Students Using an Enhanced ROI Concept
The toolkits in this focus area support the development or refinement of an approach to understanding, evaluating, and prioritizing financial resource allocation with an expanded lens on student needs, support, and services that focus on student outcomes.
Student-Centered
Planning, Processes, and Budgeting
Toolkits in this focus area seek to refine budget models and methods that enable institutions to be more nimble and agile in meeting the current and future needs of all students, with the intent of increasing student completion rates.
Wondering Where to Start?
Begin with the Toolkit Finder.
The Toolkit Finder is designed to guide you to the toolkits that best align with your specific needs and goals. You can complete the Toolkit Finder assessment multiple times, adjusting your responses to reflect your evolving requirements. Your personalized dashboard allows you to view and manage your saved results conveniently. If you prefer, you can bypass the assessment entirely and browse all available toolkits directly.
Complete Toolkit Finder
What You Will Find Within Each Toolkit
The toolkits are thoughtfully organized to maximize their usefulness and impact. Each toolkit begins with an overview that provides a narrative summary of its content and the value it offers. This section sets the stage for understanding the toolkit's relevance and importance.
The value proposition outlines specific improvement opportunities, highlighting how the toolkit can drive positive change. The lift profile reflects various ways to benefit from the tools, depending on the time and effort available to leverage them. Instructions are provided to summarize how the toolkits can facilitate new ways of working, spark conversations, and transform processes.
The tools section contains direct links to the tools themselves. Supporting documentation includes links to resources that guide optimal use. The external resources section contains content that complements the tools and aids in understanding and application. Additionally, use cases showcase institutional applications of the tools, offering real-world examples. Relevant toolkits are linked to provide access to similar or complementary resources.
Student Success Training Resources for Campus Employees
Enhancing employee understanding of students' diverse challenges enables better response and support. This understanding prompts adjustments in policies, procedures, and practices to align with student needs. When students feel acknowledged and their needs met, they are more likely to succeed. The training resources here empower employees to support the diverse needs of today's college students.
NACUBO In Brief Podcast Features Preview of NACUBO Student Success Hub
In this episode, Amber Randolph, former senior vice chancellor for administration and economic development, and chief financial officer at Rutgers University-Newark speak about the journey she and representatives from the 25 other participating colleges and universities undertook to develop resources designed to offer pragmatic approaches to evaluate and sustain student equity and student success initiatives.
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