The Supporting Student Success research team began this blog 10 years ago!! This milestone provides a great opportunity to reflect on what the team and the research project has achieved but also to look forward to what this blog could do.

I have long thought that this blog could be a place where student affairs and services practitioners globally share the tremendous work they do to support students in realizing their academic and personal goals. Some of the greatest moments in publishing have been we’ve gone “live” on story about supporting the mental health needs of racialized and minoritized postsecondary students in Canada, promoting postsecondary education to secondary students in rural Australia, or sharing about a one-stop-shop that meets student needs in Mexico.

It’s what the blog has become, albeit intermittently. We only publish when we have posts to share. Which raises the question, should it be what we do in the future? Are there other new things we should try? We want to hear from you.

Please take a moment to leave a comment or reply. If you have something you would like to write about specifically, please share your idea on this short Google form.

I can’t stress it enough; we really want to hear from you.

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Until we have a schedule for upcoming posts, I’d like to share a piece I wrote recently for the Success Prints blog. In the spirit of this post’s title, I went to mountain biking camp this summer where I tried all sorts of new things.

While I was there, I realized one of the most powerful learning experiences I could have was being a student again. My bike was my teacher. My coaches and the others in our group were good company along the way. If you’ve ever wondered the connections between being an adult at summer camp and being a first-year college/university student, I invite you to check out the blog post here.

Tricia Seifert is a student success innovator, researcher, writer, and speaker. She is Principal Investigator on the Supporting Student Success project and curates this blog. She is on the Adult & Higher Education faculty at Montana State University and collaborates with students and colleagues in Canada and around the world on student success initiatives, including using games and play to promote student learning and development.