Enrollment Is Only the Beginning. Completion Is the Goal.
Rising Scholars Inc. partners with colleges, universities, graduate schools, research institutions, and other educational organizations to strengthen doctoral education and improve scholar success. Through our comprehensive programs and partnership packages, we provide customized support in doctoral readiness, academic and scholarly writing, research methodology, dissertation development, degree completion, faculty supervision, research capacity, publication preparation, and institutional advancement.
Our services are designed to support doctoral learners, faculty supervisors, graduate program leaders, and the institutional systems that influence persistence, research quality, and degree completion. Institutions may select a focused program, commission a research capacity assessment, or establish a comprehensive six- or twelve-month partnership tailored to their priorities.
Rising Scholars offers national and international assistance to institutions worldwide through virtual, in-person, hybrid, cohort-based, and train-the-trainer formats. We approach every engagement as a collaborative partnership, recognizing each institution’s existing expertise while helping its leaders identify opportunities, strengthen resources, and implement measurable solutions.
Programs may be funded directly by an institution or supported through corporations, foundations, government agencies, professional associations, and other sponsors. Whether your institution is launching a doctoral program, strengthening faculty supervision, supporting stalled doctoral candidates, improving research capacity, or developing a comprehensive doctoral-success strategy, Rising Scholars is prepared to help you move from identified needs to sustainable institutional impact.
What Challenge Are You Trying to Solve?
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Identify barriers to persistence and develop targeted support strategies that help doctoral scholars remain engaged, progress through critical milestones, and move toward completion.
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Strengthen the structures, resources, and academic support scholars need to move through the dissertation process with greater clarity, consistency, and momentum.
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Re-engage scholars who have completed coursework but stalled during the dissertation phase through targeted assessment, structured support, accountability, and completion planning.
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Build scholars' confidence and competency in doctoral-level writing while addressing writing challenges that can delay academic and dissertation progress.
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Prepare scholars to understand research methodology, develop aligned studies, navigate the research process, and confidently transition from proposal development to data collection and analysis.
Help institutions strengthen communication, expectations, feedback practices, and shared accountability between doctoral scholars and the faculty guiding their research.
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Provide faculty and dissertation leaders with practical strategies for mentorship, feedback, scholar engagement, early intervention, and effective doctoral supervision.
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Develop meaningful opportunities for scholars to connect with peers, faculty, mentors, resources, and their institutions throughout the doctoral journey.
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Graduate-School Pipeline Development
Create intentional pathways that help prospective graduate students explore advanced-degree opportunities, prepare for graduate study, select appropriate programs, and transition successfully into graduate education.
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Bring institutional evidence and the voices of leadership, faculty, and students together to identify gaps and build a coordinated strategy for doctoral persistence, progression, and completion.
Click on any underlined area of interest to schedule a consultation and discuss your institution’s specific needs and opportunities.
How We Partner
1. Discover
We begin by learning about your institution, students, challenges, existing resources, and desired outcomes.
2. Assess
RSI identifies gaps and opportunities using consultations, assessments, institutional data, stakeholder feedback, or other agreed-upon methods.
3. Design
We recommend an appropriate program, academy, workshop series, cohort, or customized solution.
4. Implement
RSI collaborates with institutional leadership to deliver the initiative.
5. Measure
Outcomes and participant feedback help evaluate impact and identify opportunities for continued support.
Partnership Options
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Single Workshop
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Workshop Series
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Semester Partnership
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Annual Institutional Partnership
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Sponsored Student Cohort
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Customized Institutional Initiative
Featured Free Entry Offer
Beyond Enrollment: Building a Doctoral Student Success & Completion Strategy
Enrollment Is the Beginning. Completion Is the Measure of Success.
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Recruiting doctoral students is an important institutional achievement—but getting them enrolled is only the first step.
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What happens after enrollment can determine whether scholars remain engaged, successfully navigate critical academic and dissertation milestones, and ultimately complete their degrees.
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Rising Scholars Inc. invites colleges and universities to experience a complimentary institutional workshop designed to help leadership teams take a closer look at the systems, practices, and support structures surrounding doctoral student success.
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What Is Beyond Enrollment?
Beyond Enrollment: Building a Doctoral Student Success & Completion Strategy is an interactive strategy workshop for institutional leaders, graduate administrators, faculty, dissertation chairs, and student-success professionals.
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Rather than focusing only on recruitment and enrollment, the session challenges participants to examine the entire doctoral journey—from entry and coursework through research, dissertation development, defense, and completion.
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Participants will explore where doctoral scholars may encounter barriers, where institutional support may become fragmented, and where opportunities exist to strengthen the student experience.
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During This Complimentary Workshop, Your Team Will Explore:
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Critical points in the doctoral journey where scholars may lose momentum or disengage
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Factors that can influence doctoral persistence and completion
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Academic writing and research-readiness challenges
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Dissertation progression and common barriers during the ABD phase
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Chair–student communication, expectations, and feedback
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Faculty and mentorship support
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Student engagement, belonging, and accountability
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Opportunities for earlier intervention
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Gaps between available institutional resources and the support scholars actually experience
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Strategies for creating a more coordinated approach to doctoral student success
Your Institution Will Leave With More Than a Conversation
Throughout the workshop, participants will identify strengths, potential gaps, and opportunities within their current doctoral-support environment.
Your team will begin developing a Doctoral Student Success & Completion Action Map identifying priority areas that may warrant further exploration, including immediate opportunities, longer-term considerations, and potential next steps.
Who Should Participate?
This workshop is especially valuable when multiple perspectives are represented. Institutions are encouraged to invite:
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Graduate Deans
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Doctoral Program Directors
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Department Chairs
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Dissertation Chairs
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Faculty
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Research Leaders
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Academic Support Professionals
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Student-Success and Retention Leaders
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Institutional Leadership
Why Is Rising Scholars Offering This Workshop at No Cost?
Our mission is centered on helping doctoral scholars persist, progress, and complete their degrees.
We also recognize that sustainable doctoral success requires more than supporting scholars individually. It requires understanding the institutional systems surrounding them.
This complimentary workshop allows institutions to begin that conversation with no obligation to purchase additional services.
For institutions that identify areas requiring deeper exploration or additional support, Rising Scholars can discuss optional next steps, including our RSI 360° Institutional Research Capacity Framework™, institutional assessments, doctoral success initiatives, faculty development, dissertation and research support, ABD re-engagement strategies, academies, workshops, and customized institutional partnerships.
Start With One Conversation. Discover What Could Be Possible.
Your institution may already be doing many things well. Beyond Enrollment provides an opportunity to bring the right people together, examine the doctoral experience from multiple perspectives, and ask an important question:
Are we simply enrolling doctoral students—or have we intentionally built an environment designed to help them finish?
Bring Beyond Enrollment to Your Institution
Complimentary Institutional Workshop
Available virtually or by arrangement for institutional leadership teams.
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