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The power of genuine relationships: Building support systems beyond the classroom

University Business

In smaller classes, meaningful engagement might happen through group projects or discussions that invite students to bring their whole selves into the room. What matters most is that students feel seen, not as names on rosters or numbers in a learning management system, but as individuals who belong in the academic space.

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5 Proven Student Engagement Strategies for The Fall!

Campus Groups

We know how critical the fall is for student engagement. It is when new students immerse themselves in college life and returning students renew with campus activities and traditions. This article outlines 5 student engagement strategies for the fall. Offices that can seem intimidating (i.e. These include:

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Student advisers teach postgrad development skills

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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.

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Steps to success: Connecting careers to student support

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Image credit: Pixabay, pexels, CC0 In this post, Susan Bird, the Link Careers Consultant for the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Edinburgh, explores a recent opportunity to strengthen ties between the Careers Service and evolving student support systems. “The Bite, Snack and the Meal.”

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Welcome to June-July Hot Topic theme: Students as Change Agents (SACHA)

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Students as change agents (SACHA) Welcome to the Hot Topic series for June and July 2024: Students as Change Agents (SACHA). Ruth is Assistant Director, Careers Service, and SACHA Programme Director, and Emma is SACHA Programme Manager. This series is introduced in the this post by Emma Taylor and Ruth Donnelly.

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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?’

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What the f**k is Graphic Design?

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

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.