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College cancels classes for career, advising expo

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Workshops covered topics like wellness, intercultural workplace competency, awkward human resources interactions, careers in athletics and illegal interview questions. Faculty members who hosted workshops were awarded with professional development credit. More than 100 walked away with a new professional head shot.

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20 Innovative Mental Health Awareness Month Activities for Students

Experiential Learning Depot

How can our group collaborate with local mental health organizations, advocacy groups, and mental health professionals to ensure that their series of short films or documentaries on mental health are accompanied by relevant resources, support services, and opportunities for further engagement?

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Top Retention Strategies for Diverse Modern Learners

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

As the needs of students change, universities must alter their recruitment and retention strategies to make sure that their messages resonate with diverse student prospects, and that they provide the right support services to meet these students’ needs. Mental health services. Financial assistance and scholarships.

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U of South Dakota TRIO program offers first-year experience

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The University of South Dakota’s TRIO Student Support Services is like all other federally funded TRIO SSS programs in that it serves low-income, first-generation or disabled students. Tell us about it. Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Navigating Futures: Integrating Career Counseling for Student Success

Creatrix Campus

The growing need for thorough career counseling highlights the need to offer all-encompassing support services to assist students in determining their routes to success. Career Planning Workshops: Guide students in goal setting and exploring career options.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It goes back to CEED workshops where they gave us mentorship skills.” Being present at these conferences helps raise the profile of Virginia Tech’s graduate programs as well as awareness of CEED’s support services. “I Now, I try to give back. by mentoring girls and young women to keep going in engineering.

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Maslow's Hierarchy in Action: How Student Affairs Can use the Framework for Better Assessment of Wellbeing

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Likewise, it is essential to conduct these on a regular basis Tailor support services: Based on the needs assessment, universities can tailor their support services to better meet the needs of their students. Maslow's hierarchy of needs provides a useful framework for universities to assess and support student well-being.