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

Higher Education Inquirer

In an open-ended question, students identified several ways institutions can better support their success, including: Promoting Awareness of Resources: Students called for more accessible and transparent communication about resources like tutoring, counseling, and career services. Talk about these services more openly.

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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. Oct 27, 2022

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Consolidating touch points for retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A more recent trend is consolidating student services related to academics or health and wellness into a larger office or building. Tutoring, library resources, academic advising and career services are smushed together, and counseling, disability services, medical centers and student care teams are sharing space more than ever before.

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How employees are using CU’s Tuition Assistance Benefit (TAB)

CU Work-Life Balance

Mark Paquette guides UCCS students through the ins and outs of identifying and securing jobs that align with their career goals. After spending 15 years in the financial services sector, Paquette moved to higher education with a focus on student career services. Anschutz Medical Campus. Steve Zweck-Bronner.

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Supporting sustainable careers and preparedness for job automation

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The project, funded by a PTAS grant, brought together academic staff from Moray House School of Education with practitioners in the Careers Service. One of the project aims has been to develop a sustainable career learning intervention which will be integrated within various provisions offered to students by the Careers Service.

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Life Design: Connecting students to their future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

. “Skills for the Future of Work” The University of Edinburgh Careers Service. link] Sharon Maguire Sharon is a Careers & Employability Manager, leading a team of Careers Consultants covering Divinity, ECA, HCA, and LLC.

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Welcome to the Nov-Dec Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Reflective Learning

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Simon Riley Professor Simon Riley is Professor of Experiential Student Learning, Co-Director of Teaching for the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and Director of Teaching for the Deanery of Clinical Sciences, Edinburgh Medical School. He is also Co-Lead for the Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses initiative (SLICCs).