Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 25, 2023

Image: Factors ranging from financial stress to participation in extracurriculars can influence whether a student receiving services at their university’s counseling center will voluntarily withdraw from the institution, according to new research from Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Collegiate Mental Health.

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Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A 2007 survey from the Association on Higher Education and Disability reported that just 28% of students with learning disabilities graduate from college. And only 25% of students with an identified learning difference take advantage of the services available to them on campus.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 13, 2024

Victoria is the Director of the Disability and Learning Support Service. Rethinking higher education unit design: Embedding universal design for learning in online studies. This post is part of the Mar-June Learning & Teaching Enhancement theme: Assessment and feedback revisited. Student Success , 14 (1), 1–8.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

AUGUST 7, 2023

Photo credit: Unsplash CC0 In this extra post, Shian Holt reflects not only on the ‘how’ to build Peer Support online but also the ‘why’ Arguing that fostering belonging for online students is key to helping them develop agency and confidence in their own knowlege-production.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 3, 2019

Increasing numbers of students are disclosing to us, prior to arrival, that they have long-term mental health conditions, and so one element of our strategy is to ensure that our support services are sufficiently resourced to meet the needs of students. All of these resources are for staff and students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2023

There, McManus served as the coordinator of disability support services and worked as a minority retention counselor. “I She served for nearly nine years as the university’s director of disability services. That journey first began at Piedmont Technical College (PTC), a two-year school in Greenwood, South Carolina.

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