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Developing Students’ Critical Thinking Skills: Academic Minute

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Today on the Academic Minute: Erica Kosal, director of the life sciences first-year program and associate teaching professor of biological sciences at North Carolina State University, explains how important it is for students to learn how to think creatively.

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Success coaching retains first-year students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

What’s working: Koons attributes part of Kansas Wesleyan’s record retention numbers to the library’s first-year programming, because students who engage with their coaches have higher retention rates compared to their peers who don’t.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“We have been doing online in some fashion for at least 25 years, so we have a lot of familiarity with various modalities.” FIU is one of the largest Minority Serving and Hispanic Serving Institutions in the country. “We

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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. and the various extracurricular activities that I was a part of helped to make Hope feel more like home.

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

University Business

Inclusive messaging, robust support services, and strong orientation and first-year programming assure students they will get the support they need. Communication preferences. What students want : Websites and search engines are the leading sources of information when students are searching for colleges.

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Librarians target incoming students, collaborative measures

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Over the past few decades, libraries have shifted attention from primarily instruction work toward purposeful collaborations in first-year programming. An older model among libraries is coming into classrooms like an English 101 course or a first-year seminar to share information.

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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

Or more accurately, I accepted the practices that had accreted through years of habit. But as I pieced together classes for general education and a first-year program, and then took on broader responsibility for scheduling and faculty load as an associate dean—I found myself casting about for a clearer strategy.