Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

For over a decade, students have worked alongside staff at the college’s career center to provide professional development help for the larger campus community, part of a long-standing institutional tradition. The advising appointment with staff is often more efficient and productive, as well. Click here to submit.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 14, 2024

EUSA Teaching Awards 2024 In this blog Callum Paterson, Academic Engagement & Policy Coordinator at the Students’ Association, turns the spotlight to the winners of the Students’ Association’s 2024 Teaching Awards for staff offering exceptional levels of support to students.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 22, 2020

The Making Transitions Personal (MTP) Pre-arrival and Start-of-year Reviews is an initiative that aims to support this through a set of targeted reflective questions given to students before the start of the academic year. We know from students that it is critical for their engagement with the review to be at least acknowledged.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

In this post, Dr Kay Williams, Study Development Advisor at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD), explains the value of working with students as consultants to create the new Study Hub brand, and the Study Hub blog , which offer learning resources for students… How do you solve a problem with learning materials?

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EAB

MAY 5, 2023

Driving student engagement with these wellness services redirects some of the demand for formal counseling and can prevent many issues from escalating to the point of needing acute care. Coordinating these services can help schools provide much better support for students without the need for major new investments.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 5, 2024

Students who got academic counseling were 20% more likely to report greater levels of engagement and satisfaction with their educational experience. This has been proved right according to the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). It helps improve academic standing, professional interests, and personal objectives.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 11, 2024

Foster: With SACHA it’s not all about what the university can give students through lectures and seminars but what the students can also give back to the university. It is a “give and take initiative” with the aim to involve students in the decision-making process in the University.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 2, 2019

Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies. I unashamedly reveal my bias this month: I am a huge supporter of embedding placements and fieldwork opportunities into course design. Question: Which country has the largest archipelago in the world? Jul 2, 2019

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But does that tell us if students are actually reading these books? For example, career services programming is often developed with the purpose of improving student skill in each of the career competencies as described by NACE. Or if the contents of these books are enhancing their educational journey?

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Image credit: Zohra O’Doherty: End of Academic Year Lunch at SPS for Access/Adult Returner Student In this post, Zohra O’Doherty spotlights a Student Partnership Agreement (SPA) funded collaborative project that offers additional support and outreach to mature students who are most often at risk of feeling lonely and isolated at the University.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Photo credit: Flip Design Agency Following on from her earlier post this year , Zoe Patterson, Programme Director for Graphic Design at ECA, describes another student engagement initiative that benefits both undergraduate and school students… What the f**k is Graphic Design? For most it was a bumpy ride.

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Symplicity

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Internships have historically been a great opportunity for companies to bring quality entry-level talent into an organization, making them vital to student and employer success. It's no secret that the demand for interns is high, with some companies already in the race for interns for the 2025 season.

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Symplicity

DECEMBER 19, 2023

While sometimes this can be attributed to finding opportunities that better align with their long-term career goals, a lot of the time interns renege out of a lack of engagement with their future employers. In a competitive workforce, it's not uncommon for interns to renege on accepted offers in hopes of finding something better.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 17, 2019

How could we replicate the success of this Edinburgh Award with our far larger Undergraduate student population without diluting the quality? Answer: Get our students involved in its design and delivery. These are delivered by a newly formed and hugely dedicated branch of PALS, our DevPALS, led by third year student, Sophie Mitchinson.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 16, 2023

The career and PD team also presents career outcomes and experiences to inform other departments of its findings and to get feedback from them. In addition, the career and PD team asks what other departments are hearing from students and how the career and PD team can help if they have questions.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

Of course I believed students were developing ‘transferable skills’, but I was largely concerned with the nitty-gritty of the immediate skills they had to develop to perform well in their assessments! On the ‘other side’, as a careers consultant, I see things rather differently. We can’t afford to ignore this concern.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 28, 2017

The School of Mathematics has long recognised the need for providing its students with support beyond that offered by the University’s established channels: our subject, by its very nature, poses challenges to incoming students in their transition from School-level to University-level Mathematics.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 4, 2019

Rather, it is a way for them to make sense of their own teaching and their students’ learning, drawing on the principles of research. Financial awards of up to £15,000 help participants to develop research skills and build communities of staff and students with an interest in enhancing teaching and learning.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 9, 2017

The Edinburgh Award is an initiative that recognises students’ involvement with co- and extra-curricular activities while at University. It also seeks to enhance the learning and development opportunities these activities provide and encourage students to see the relevance of these activities in preparing them for their future.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Lack of follow up is detrimental, and research shows that mail and email follow up are important to prospective students. Referrals from social services agencies and community-based organizations. Students who started an admissions application but did not complete. Community members who leverage career services resources.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 22, 2018

It’s a mixed picture… Recently, a 4th year student in a very practical subject told me he had never had any hands-on experience in his degree. Moreover, in exam periods students are not necessarily thinking about employable attributes. about 74% of students start working after their first degree. I doubt it.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D., Scholastica Student Success Improving success for pre-health students Joe Fritsch, Ph.D.,

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 8, 2018

Although experiential learning can often appear to be a rather ill-defined and vague construct, there are several key elements that need to be in place to ensure its effectiveness.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2024

” However, creating community can be hard work – as Change Agents, Della Yang, Hera Li, and Lilette Burga, discussed in their post about experiential learning for international students. .” Studying at a large university can make it difficult to create genuine connections, particularly as an international student.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2024

However, creating community can be hard work – as Change Agents, Della Yang, Hera Li, and Lilette Burga, discussed in their post about experiential learning for international students. Studying at a large university can make it difficult to create genuine connections, particularly as an international student.

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Creatrix Campus

MAY 22, 2023

It supports the development of engineering skills and knowledge through a range of services and programs, such as professional development courses, mentoring schemes, and networking events. Today, it has over 25,000 members from all disciplines of engineering, including civil, mechanical, electrical, and electronic engineering, among others.

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