Student Success

Oregon State University, Cascades, will this fall launch Cascades Edge, a career-prep initiative that continuously provides professional development to students.

Humanities scholars at Wheaton College in Massachusetts will develop 10 exportable curricular modules on such topics as genetics and race.

Financial aid, academic counseling and other student-facing departments at Moorpark College adopt two-way text messaging to send reminders—eliminating some of the need for email communication.

Georgia Institute of Technology gathers student feedback on general education assessment to better understand how they frame and grasp learning outcomes.

Higher education professionals can prevent loneliness, and improve retention and engagement among students, using some key strategies.

Athletic teams at University of California, Irvine, learn to talk about mental health and spot each other’s well-being—in the gym, on the field and elsewhere.

On the Teaching for Student Success podcast, a physics professor at Harvard discusses his study on how much students get from active learning environments, as well as surprising findings about how they prefer to be taught.

In the new Story Lab at the University of Iowa business school, students learn to craft and deliver compelling stories to help them stand out when connecting with recruiters and employers, as well as future colleagues.