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Librarians target incoming students, collaborative measures

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Academic library professionals across the higher education landscape are championing student success initiatives within their own spaces, particularly to equip new students for their academic careers. Many even have dedicated student success librarians, solely focused on collaborative, resource-focused programming.

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How your future students’ needs are changing in 5 big ways

University Business

An ever-increasing range of competing interests drawing the attention of prospective students is increasing the pressure of institutions to fill their classrooms and residence halls, says the 2022 National Prospective Student Survey by Hanover Research. Degree and program interests: . Communication preferences.

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Chief academic officer on the value of investing in student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As she prepared to begin her new work at the tier-one public research university, Chase shared her perspective on making investments in student success. These included general education courses as well as upper-division and graduate courses. First-year programs are not as common for graduate institutions.

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Success coaching retains first-year students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The success coach is responsible for helping to ease the student’s transition into college, most directly through resource education and connecting students to the success center. The goal is to “intentionally get in front of students from the beginning,” Koons explains. Nationally, retention is a bit higher; about 66.4