2027 NASPA Conferences on Student Success in Higher Education

The NASPA Conferences on Student Success in Higher Education (SSHE) brings together higher education professionals committed to improving the student experience and advancing institutional practices that support student success, persistence, and completion. Designed around three interconnected communities, SSHE creates space for professionals to share evidence-informed practices, examine emerging challenges, and translate learning into meaningful institutional action.

The conference features three tracks:

• Data, Assessment & Institutional Effectiveness: Explore how institutions can leverage data, assessment, and evidence to understand student experiences, tell the data story, inform decision-making, and make the case for meaningful institutional change.
• Advising, Coaching & Wraparound Student Support: Examine approaches that connect students with coordinated, proactive, and holistic support throughout their educational journey, including advising, coaching, basic needs, belonging, and other factors that influence student success.
• Pathways, Persistence & Completion: Explore evidence-based institutional strategies that respond to students’ experiences, strengthen momentum and persistence, reduce barriers, and address completion gaps for diverse student populations.

Together, these tracks reflect the interconnected work required to improve student success: using data to understand what students need, building the supports that help them navigate college, and strengthening the pathways that lead to persistence and completion. SSHE offers a space for practitioners, leaders, researchers, and partners to connect across roles and institutional contexts, share what is working, and consider how evidence and experience can inform more effective and equitable approaches to student success.