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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies.

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The Missed Opportunity: Student Affairs and Human Resources Collaboration to [Re]engage College Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Stop-Out, Drop-Out, The Great Resignation There are countless books, articles, and dissertations framed from scholar Dr. Vincent Tinto’s theory of social integration. The premise of the theory is the more engaged students are, the more likely they will succeed. Today, college employees, regardless of their role, need to be [re]engaged!

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Balancing books and bills: an exploration of the hidden world of student workers

SRHE

Moreover, meaningful work experience or employment can be seen as critical for a number of professions – a mechanism to distinguish between graduates with the same 2:1 degree but with differing employability capital. To what extent is student employment detrimental?

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Symplicity Spotlight: Rebecca Florey

Symplicity

In fact, we could easily write a book of praises about Rebecca from our clients, but in the meantime, get to know her below! In your view, what are some of the biggest changes student success roles in higher ed in the last five years? And then book a monthly call with your client manager.

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Meet the Syllabus: engaging in current research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

For starters, it involves a lot of admin: sending invitations, settling dates, booking hotels and cafes, and bugging guests to book their travel and send in papers on time. To add to the workload, we organised further events – seminars, lectures and, in one case, a book launch – around the visits.

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Life Beyond University: my careers advice for students

Teaching Matters Student Employment

You can acquire them in your studies, through The Edinburgh Award, in sports/societies, in volunteering groups, in discussion groups, in social situations, from books and online learning. You don’t have to have a ‘job’ in order to learn these skills. Question conventional career “wisdom” and the way everyone else is doing it.

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Let students lead their learning

Teaching Matters Student Employment

20 or students designed their own 10 credit courses over the summer ranging from research projects that explored degree-related topics more deeply to projects for volunteering or during summer internships. When given the freedom to design their own learning, these students certainly didn’t take the easy option.