About Change By Degrees
After more than a decade leading Wayne State University as Senior Associate Provost for Student Success, Dr. Monica Brockmeyer founded Change By Degrees to help other urban, public universities and higher ed professionals attract diversity, increase retention, and grow graduation rates.Change By Degrees brings innovation, systems, collaboration and evidence-based experience to find specific leverage points for change that work for individual institutions.
Student Success is a hard job. It takes time and sustained effort across many domains to achieve lasting impact. The Change By Degrees team finds the most impactful starting points for higher education institutions to become better and stronger and help students thrive.
Desired Outcomes
Our strategies and solutions help students, communities, and the general public see the value of universities and the degrees they award. More than just the economic value that comes from higher salaries available to degree-holding individuals, students and communities must believe that higher education advances their life goals and that society at-large benefits in the end and for the long-term.
Key Challenges Our Clients Face
Understanding
Understanding bottlenecks and attrition points along the student journey
Articulating
Articulating the value chain within the university - how each person, program,and effort contributes to student success
Communicating ROI for student success
Communicating
Identifying
Identifying which solutions will work for individual institutions
Avoiding
Avoiding overwhelm by the volume of available solutions
Enduring
Enduring the longevity that is required to make true change in student success
Managing
Managing Student Success while also meeting competing, mission-driven demands, in an environment that is changing more rapidly than employees can adapt