Proactive Advising

Monitoring Advising Analytics to Promote Student Success (MAAPS) was a 10,000 student randomized control trial seeking to validate the effectiveness of proactive advising in increasing retention and graduation rates for low-income and first-generation college students. As of fall 2019:

5

campuses

showed positive results after the 3-year intervention, and the 3 institutions with the highest degree of implementation fidelity show statistically significant results.
3

institutions

with statistically significant results all maintained maintained small advisor caseloads of 1:150, a consistent calendar of targeted analysis and outreach, predictive data tracking and early alerts, and regular degree planning with students.
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positive outcomes

included higher credit success rates, increased credit accumulation, and higher GPAs when compared to the control group.