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Plugging the Gap: How One College Is Reducing Course Failures
Through course redesign, embedded TAs and a culture of experimentation, the University of the Pacific is seeing returns on first-year attrition.
Student Success Professionals Face Growing Pressure Amid DEI Bans
Some 1,500 student affairs professionals convened to share best practices and a host of worries at NASPA’s annual student success conference.
Dual-Enrollment Program Offers Students Cybersecurity Certificate
A Vermont partnership gives high school students hands-on experience in cybersecurity and a conditional acceptance to a local college.
Student Wellness Ambassadors Promote Campus Supports
The University of San Diego unveiled a state-of-the-art fitness and well-being center this year. Now it’s relying on student leaders to make the space inviting and cool.
How Faculty Stall the Transfer Process
A new report from MDRC finds that faculty members hold negative perceptions of transfer student readiness for upper-level courses, which can impede degree completion.
Wayne State Launches Prison Education Program
Starting this fall, two dozen Macomb Correctional Facility inmates will be eligible to earn a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Wayne State University.
Listen: Recognizing and Encouraging Military-Affiliated Students
In the latest episode of Voices of Student Success, the University of Texas at San Antonio’s senior director of veteran and military affairs discusses ways to engage and support students connected to the military.
First-Year Persistence Continues Slow Climb Back From Pandemic Drop
Nearly 84 percent of the first-year students who enrolled in fall 2023 persisted at their institution to the spring term, though 14 percent left higher education entirely.