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Mental Health and Financial Barriers Threaten College Student Success (TimelyCare)

Higher Education Inquirer

Success Defined Students identified GPA, gaining knowledge, and graduating or completing their coursework as their top measures of success in line with a 2024 survey. Interestingly, non-traditional students placed graduating and gaining knowledge above GPA. Talk about these services more openly.

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All Eyes on Career Prep Leads Institutions to Writing Tech

University Business

It can be frustrating to dedicate time, money, and effort to career services in higher education and see headlines like “ Colleges get F for career prep ” go mainstream. . After all, this work with students is essential. And yet, the current approach to career services is lacking in impact.

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Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Supporting Student Success

It was early in 2017 when our Student Life department received the approval we had been waiting for – we were embarking on a journey to make the University of Guelph-Humber a CliftonStrengths campus and I was tasked with leading the project. You may be asking what is CliftonStrengths (CS) and how does it help students? By: Liana Acri.

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University of Dayton, Sinclair CC share students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

What it is: UD Sinclair Academy was started to address barriers in transferability of credits and affordability of higher education, says Julia Thompson, director of student success for community college partnerships at UD. Click here to submit.

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Welcome to the January issue of Teaching Matters!

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The focus for January is employability, introduced by the Director of the University’s Careers Service, Shelagh Green. The experience at Edinburgh can be truly transformational for our students. Every month Teaching Matters takes a theme and explores it through a number of blog contributions over the month.

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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Gavin is the Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service and this post forms part of the 20 Years of Enhancement theme. The University avoided the trap of seeing employability as solely a Careers Service responsibility, and instead used this funding to support an institution-wide and collaborative approach.

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Co-creating a more sustainable framework for professional development for our UG students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Photo of PALS training day Back in January 2018, a group of staff and students in the Business School got their collective heads around the table to address the problem: ‘How can we get our UG students to engage more in their personal and professional development?’