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Student success leaders are heading into 2026 with both confidence and concern, finds Inside Higher Ed ’s second annual Survey of College and University Student Success Administrators with Hanover Research , out today. Case in point: A majority of student success leaders (n=204) say their colleges and universities excel at prioritizing student success (61 percent), but just about a third (35 percent) agree that their institutions are highly effective at using student success data to guide decisions.

Similarly, nearly all student success administrators are confident in the quality of undergraduate education at their institutions (95 percent), but just a third report that high-impact teaching practices are widely adopted (36 percent). And while 87 percent of lea

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