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
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
Each toolkit is thoughtfully organized for maximum impact. It begins with an overview summarizing its purpose and value, followed by a value proposition that highlights improvement opportunities and a lift profile suggesting ways to engage based on available time and capacity.
Instructions guide users on how to use the toolkit to spark collaboration and improve processes. The tools section provides direct access to resources, with supporting documents and external links to enhance application. Use cases offer real-world examples, and related toolkits are linked for deeper exploration.
Financing Student Success: A Q&A with Community College Research Center and NACUBO
NACUBO was interviewed by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) to discuss how the Student Success Hub is helping community colleges align their financial strategies with student success goals.
Charting the Future: NACUBO's Blueprint for Student-Centered Strategic Finance
Consider the different methods to center students across various strategic financial practices. This paper provides guidance for institutions of all types, encouraging ideation, discussion, and collaboration.
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