What are NACUBO Student Success Hub Toolkits?

Toolkits are practical, research-backed resources designed to help higher education institutions align their financial and operational strategies with student success outcomes. Each toolkit includes frameworks, templates, assessments, and action plans that guide institutional leaders through specific challenges.

Do I need an account to access the toolkits?

You can browse toolkit overviews and public resources without an account. However, a free account is required to access full toolkit content including assessments, action plans, metrics dashboards, and collaborative planning tools.

How do I know which toolkit is right for my institution?

Use the Toolkit Finder at the top of this page to filter toolkits by your goal, the type of support you need, and who is involved. Select one or more filters to narrow the list to toolkits relevant to your situation. You can also browse by focus area to explore all available options.

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Q: How are the toolkits organized?

The 11 toolkits are organized across three focus areas: Data to Inform Decisions, Financial Resource Optimization, and Student-Centered Planning, Processes, and Budgeting. This structure helps institutions quickly identify the resources most relevant to their specific challenges and goals.

Toolkits Overview

The Student Success Hub toolkits are comprehensive, implementation-focused resources designed to help colleges and universities adopt proven student success strategies. Rather than offering theory alone, each toolkit brings together the tools, guidance, and examples institutions need to move from planning to execution.

What's Inside a Toolkit?

Implementation frameworks and roadmaps to guide planning and execution
Customizable templates and tools that teams can adapt to their local context
Case studies and success stories from peer institutions
Measurement and evaluation resources to track progress and outcomes

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How Institutions Use Toolkits

Assess. Understand your institution's current state, identify gaps, and establish baseline metrics for success.
Plan. Develop a strategic roadmap, engage stakeholders, and build your implementation team and timeline.
Act. Execute your plan using toolkit resources, templates, and best practices from peer institutions.
Measure. Track outcomes, evaluate impact, and refine your approach based on data and feedback.

What Outcomes Can Institutions Expect?

Improved student outcomes and retention
Better alignment between strategy, budget, and operations
More consistent, data-driven decision-making
Sustainable and scalable student success efforts

Toolkits Organized by Focus Areas

The toolkits are organized across three focus areas to ensure comprehensive support and targeted approaches. By organizing the toolkits within these focus areas, NACUBO ensures that institutions can easily access and implement the resources most relevant to their specific challenges and goals.

Data to Inform Decisions

This focus area offers toolkits to support institutional efforts to create or enhance a sustainable “system of knowledge management” that provides consistent visibility, accountability, and data accuracy to inform financial decisions.

Financial Resource Optimization

The toolkits in this focus area support the development or refinement of an approach to understanding, evaluating, and prioritizing financial resource allocation with an expanded lens on student needs, support, and services that focus on student outcomes.

Student-Centered Planning, Processes, and Budgeting

Toolkits in this focus area seek to refine budget models and methods that enable institutions to be more nimble and agile in meeting the current and future needs of all students, with the intent of increasing student completion rates.

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Other Institutions Using the Toolkits

Learn how other institutions have used the toolkits to improve student outcomes.

Assessing Needs, Refining Practices, and Sustaining Improved Ways of Working

Brooklyn College

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Leveraging NACUBO Resources to Enhance Efficiency, Data-Informed Decision-Making, and Stakeholder Engagement

Rutgers University-Newark

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Building Awareness, Cultivating Stewardship, and Institutionalizing Practices

South Central College

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