Fresh From the UIA (Student Success)

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How Behavioral Science is Transforming Student Success

By UIA
Angela Duckworth, co-director of the Penn Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative, discusses the threshold for institutions joining the program, how it supports first-year and transfer students, pitching it to administrators, and using the resulting data.
UIA Annual Report

Our First Decade of Innovation: The UIA’s 2024 Annual Report

By UIA

In 2024, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) celebrated a decade of transformative impact. What began in 2014 as a bold experiment by 11 universities has grown into a collaborative movement to dramatically redefine what’s possible in higher education: increased student success. We knew that graduating thousands more students would require reimagining how institutions tackle big challenges. Together, we innovated, shared knowledge, and built a culture of collaboration that now inspires change far beyond our campuses.

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Innovation in Action: Overview of the UIA’s Current Scale Projects

By UIA
The University Innovation Alliance relies on collaborative scale projects among member institutions to advance its mission and effectiveness. During 2023, the UIA made great strides on these four projects: Academic Recovery, Student-Centered Redesign, Listening Lab, and Doctoral Research Fellows.
UIA Annual Report

Inside the UIA’s 2023 Annual Report

By UIA
Celebrating the highlights of the UIA’s 2023 Annual Report, we look at increased degree completion rates, scale projects making the UIA an effective force for change, growing the University Innovation Lab, widening diffusion to the field, and the teams responsible for our ongoing success.
Ten Years of Innovating Together

Ten Years of Innovating Together

By UIA
The year 2024 marks a decade of the University Innovation Alliance’s mission to revolutionize higher education. Join us in celebrating our successes, unpacking our ongoing challenges, and looking at how we plan to build on our accomplishments going forward.
Tim Renick, The Innovating Together Podcast

Data and Student Success in Higher Ed

By UIA
Tim Renick, Executive Director of the National Institute for Student Success at Georgia State University, discusses DFW rates and the accelerator model, the pandemic’s lingering impact on student success, the hurdles of institutional culture, and gauging a school’s readiness to implement change.
Innovating Through Failure... and Success: The Innovating Together Podcast

Innovating Through Failure... and Success

By UIA
Bridget Burns, University Innovation Alliance CEO, discusses higher ed's core design flaw, predictive analytics and at-risk students, chatbots, college-to-career best practices, completion grants, and innovating through failure.
2022 Annual Report: Blog #1

2022: Reemerging, Growing, and Evolving

By UIA
In the first of two blogs, the University Innovation Alliance celebrates its 2022 accomplishments. This installment reviews impact and scale of UIA initiatives, diffusion to the field through a variety of media platforms, and the invaluable partnerships that make their work possible.

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