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Engaging with Hope and Beyond

Hope College Network

My first year was marked by my significant involvement in Hope’s Phelps Scholars Program, which is a first-year program that helps students develop the tools needed to navigate our multicultural world.

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Success coaching retains first-year students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Recognizing that making connections is vital in a student’s first year, Kansas Wesleyan University’s student success center matches its new faces to seasoned staff to create a recipe for success.

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Your Most Powerful Tool For Improving Outcomes May be Hiding in Plain Sight: Student-Centered Course Scheduling

Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

For years, my only perspective on scheduling came from my own experience as a faculty member, and then head of an academic program. Or more accurately, I accepted the practices that had accreted through years of habit. By Lisa Hunter.

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

University Business

Degree and program interests: . What students want : Nine in 10 students say cost is very or extremely important in whether and where they’ll attend college, and price is of greatest concern to first-generation students.

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Librarians target incoming students, collaborative measures

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Many even have dedicated student success librarians, solely focused on collaborative, resource-focused programming. Over the past few decades, libraries have shifted attention from primarily instruction work toward purposeful collaborations in first-year programming.

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Chief academic officer on the value of investing in student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Chase has more than 40 years of experience in academia, including more than 20 years in leadership positions, most recently as vice president for academic innovation, student success and strategic initiatives at Claremont Graduate University in California.