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Listen: Supporting Adult Learners in Higher Education
Two higher education professionals share the challenges and opportunities in serving adult learners and how institutions can better help them persist and graduate.
Report: Student Completion Rates Rise With Annual Credits Earned
New analysis from Ad Astra finds a correlation between the number of credits a student completes in a year and their likelihood of retaining and completing a degree.
What Helps Students Feel Like They Belong?
Research from the University of Illinois finds college students derive belongingness from four factors. Having the cultural capital to navigate higher education matters most to students from racial and ethnic minority groups.
Report: 4 Ways to Engage and Graduate Stopped-Out Students
California Competes’ latest research identifies barriers and strategies to help adult learners who dropped out of college re-enroll and earn a degree.
Success Program Launch: Rural Ambassadors Shine a Light on Their Communities
A student ambassador program at California State University, Chico, provides rural students with peer support, advocacy and research opportunities.
From the Top Down—Creating a Caring Campus
Texas A&M University at Kingsville will roll out a program from the Institute for Evidence-Based Change to promote belonging among rural and diverse learners through universitywide commitments to care.
All in a Day’s Work: Being Transparent With Struggles
A staff member at St. Francis College shares how vulnerability helps him build trust with first-generation scholars and encourages help-seeking behavior among students.
Positive Partnership: Fostering Former Foster Youths’ Potential
Alamo Colleges, as part of a larger county partnership, play a role in helping former foster youth enroll and succeed in college through basic needs and academic supports.