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.
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.
From memos and reports to self-assessments and slide decks, writing skills often needed on the job don’t tend to be taught in college. But professors can incorporate workplace writing into course assignments.
Persistence and completion for this vulnerable student population are more likely to happen when students have an opportunity to form a relationship over time with an academic coach.
Strategic communication about how students benefit from healthy sleep habits—and what they risk with unhealthy routines—can help make awareness campaigns convincing.
When students have problems or concerns, they are likelier to seek out professors than administrators and to feel faculty members listen more to their perspectives, Inside Higher Ed’s initial Student Voice survey finds.
