CSRDE Best Practices in Student Retention Awards 2025
CSRDE announced our Student Retention Awards at NSSR 2025 on October 23rd. Congratulations to all of our award winners!
- Danae Romrell, Samuel Brubaker, Ben Fryar of Brigham Young University-Idaho won the 2025 Best Practices in Student Retention Award for their paper Retention is Everyone’s Responsibility: Coordinating Efforts for Student Success. Best Practices Award winners must demonstrate evidence of a system-wide approach to the institution’s retention issues.
- Jennifer Ludwig & Sarah Kyte of University of Arizona received the 2025 Institutional Research Leadership in Student Retention Award for their paper Signals for Success: Early Alert Outcomes Across Disciplines .This award is given to the paper best demonstrating the importance of institutional research to the field of student retention.
- Victoria Black & Jason O'Brien of Texas State University were presented the 2025 Director’s Award for their paper, Early Academic Progress at Texas State University: Enhancing Student Success Through Timely Intervention. The Director's Award is given to the paper that best addresses an issue of current interest and need in the field of student retention and success.
- Laura Andrews & Jenny Nirh of University of Arizona won the 2025 Best Poster Award for their poster Activating Data From New Student Surveys. The award was selected by a panel of judges at the conference.