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Advisors can't fix what they didn't break. When institutions ask student success teams to compensate for fragmented data, disconnected systems, and courses that don't engage students, they make a downstream function responsible for upstream problems. Retention gains don't come from asking advisors to work harder. They come from redesigning the environment around them. That's the argument Lauren Dukes, Ed.D. and Alan Mlynek of Noodle make in their latest piece on the limits of advising-centered retention strategy. The read is short, the implications aren't. 💡 Link in comments.

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