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Director of Student Success
227H Graff Main Hall
jarney@uwlax.edu
608.785.8041

Specialty areas:

Environmental policy, public lands, ethics and public administration, the scholarship of teaching and learning, student success.

Navigate Functional Lead
1209 Centennial Hall
cstindt@uwlax.edu
608.785.6953

Specialty areas:

EAB Navigate Application Administrator

What is Navigate?

Navigate combines technology, research, process improvement, and predictive analytics to help educational institutions improve outcomes for all students, and particularly those at risk for not reaching their goals.

It does so by improving our processes in three areas: 1) communications, 2) promoting responsible, actionable use of data and predictive analytics, and 3) streamlining workflow.

Communications:

Improving how we communicate with our students by providing email and texting options that let us reach out to individual students and targeted groups to provide actionable information. We know that this type of proactive outreach has a direct and positive impact on student success, and the Navigate offers us the tools we need to do it consistently and well.
Improving how we communicate with each other about our students. With one click, you’ll be able to see the interactions your student has had with other professionals on campus and contact additional team members who can provide necessary support.

Responsible, actionable use of data and predictive analytics:

Identifying students at risk for not reaching their goals before problems become insurmountable, which allows us to connect students to resources they need in time to make a difference.
Providing data that support useful, purpose-driven conversations between students and their support network about the progress they’re making toward their degree.
Offering sophisticated search options that allow individual users to quickly and easily obtain actionable information about targeted groups of students that would previously have required queries to Institutional Research.

Streamlining workflow:

Enabling staff to spend more time providing direct student support and faculty on teaching, mentoring, and research by simplifying administrative processes (e.g., writing reports and notes, scheduling appointments, communicating with students, and preparing for meeting with students).

Why did we join Navigate?

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (UWL) is among the other UW System comprehensive campuses joining Navigate to improve campus engagement, retention, and graduation rates. Improving our communication strategies and expanding our use of predictive analytics will help ensure that students who enroll at UWL stay enrolled, make timely progress toward a degree, and graduate with a strong sense of purpose. While each student will ultimately define what success means for them individually, as higher education professionals we have the responsibility to do everything we can to make sure that they all have the opportunity to reach their personal, academic, and professional goals.

What outcomes do we hope to achieve by joining Navigate?

Increase retention
Improve four- and six-year graduation rates
Reduce overall time to degree
Reduce and ultimately eliminate the retention and graduation gap for students of color and students from low-income backgrounds
Provide targeted, timely outreach to encourage students to engage more effectively with academic advising, support services, and the campus community
Improve communication among campus community members to support student success
Increase student satisfaction with their experience

Who is EAB?

EAB is a research and consulting company that is a leader in providing colleges and universities with data analytics and communication platforms that support student success. Navigate is one of their main products.

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