Student Success Analytics Summit
Thank You for Attending!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the inaugural Student Success Analytics Summit at Bentley University on Monday, June 22, 2026. We were thrilled to welcome educators, analysts, and higher education leaders from across the region for a day of collaboration, innovation, and data-informed conversations focused on advancing student success.
We hope you found the sessions insightful and left with new ideas, meaningful connections, and practical strategies to bring back to your campus. We look forward to continuing these conversations and hope you'll join us for future Student Success Analytics Summits.
Presentation Materials
Presentation materials from select sessions are available below. We invite you to explore the resources and share them with colleagues who may benefit from the insights presented.
Thank you again for being part of the inaugural Student Success Analytics Summit—we look forward to seeing you again at a future event!
2026 Presentation Materials
Data that Matter: Strategies for Turning Data into Stronger Student Outcomes — Timothy M. Renick, Ph.D.
Evaluating and Expanding the Academic Alert Initiative — Christiane Healey & Alesia Brennan, UMass Amherst
High-Impact Academic Intervention to Promote First-Generation, Limited-Income Academic Performance, Belonging, and Career Outcomes — Andrew “Drew” Barksdale & Linda Boardman Liu, Boston College
Roundtable: Student Success Is Shifting — Are You Seeing the Signals? — Kim Arnold, PhD, EDUCAUSE
Leading Change: Cultivating a Data Culture for Student Success — Jane De León Griffin, Rachel Penn, Annie Raunikar, Leela Munagapati, Bentley University
Enhancing Student Success through Data-Driven Insights — Dennis Ikpe, Binghamton University
Operationalizing Student Success at Scale: From Value to Strategy, Systems, and Execution — Colin David Pears, University of New England
Organizing Student Data for Impact: Building Capacity for Actionable Insight in Student Success — Megan Williams, Samuel Ohannesian, Megan Miller, Salem State University
Roundtable: Making Sense of Student Support Data: A Navigate360 — Jamie Bang (Bentley) & Angie Natoli Marin (EAB)
The Experience Gap: Using AI to Understand What Students Expect and Where We Fall Short — Jessica Schein, Ian Lever & Meggan Muller, Accenture
Predicting the Path: Building Bentley’s First Student Success Predictive Model — Gabrielle Friedman, Nathan Carter, Rahat Sabyrbekov, Gregory Vaughan, Bentley University
2026 Featured Keynote Speaker
Named one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune magazine. Timothy Renick is the founding Executive Director of the National Institute for Student Success and Professor at Georgia State University. Between 2008-2020, he directed the student success efforts of the university, overseeing a 70% improvement in graduation rates and the elimination of all equity gaps based on students' race, ethnicity, or income level. Dr. Renick has testified on strategies for helping university students succeed before the both the U.S. Senate and House, and he has twice been invited to speak at the White House. His work has been covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, and CNN and cited by former President Barack Obama. Dr. Renick was named one of the Most Innovative People in Higher Education by Washington Monthly, was the recipient of the Award for National Leadership in Student Success Innovation, and was awarded the prestigious McGraw Prize in Higher Education for the wide-ranging impact of his data-based approaches on the field of student success. The U.S. Department of Education recognized Renick’s National Institute for Student Success with its Trailblazer Award, and his work was the subject of Andrew Gumbel’s book Won’t Lose This Dream. He has been principal investigator for more than $80 million in grants focused on promoting better and more equitable outcomes for college students. A summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, Dr. Renick holds his M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University.