Transfer Student Success: How Higher Education Systems Matter

by Jason E. Lane & Maria I. Khan The movement of students, and their earned credits, between colleges is inherently a system issue. And, systems may be the nation’s best bet for improving transfer at scale. Yet, systems of higher education are often overlooked in...

Collective Impact and Organizations

by Ken O’Donnell For several years NASH has played an outsized role in supporting the emerging field of High-Impact Practices, dear to my heart. It has scheduled national meetings adjacent to the HIPs in the States conference series, and used a significant grant...

TS3 Convening Takeaways

by Maria Khan The Fifth Annual NASH TS3 Convening, took place on November 9, 2020 in a pandemic-style highly-interactive virtual format. The three hours spent by 147 registrants across 14 systems and 11 states, were enriched with discussions on closing equity gaps and...

The Power of Systemness: Unpacking the Rhyme and Reason of TS3

by Jason E. Lane Taking Student Success to Scale (TS3) had its genesis in a recognition that moving the dial on college completion would take more than simply a bunch of scattered efforts across various institutions. Despite a decade of investment of millions of...