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Amber Williams and Donde Plowman sit next to each other, wearing University of Tennessee orange, with microphones at the table in preparation for a podcast interview.

Listen: Focus on Building Strengths Leads Students to Success

Two University of Knoxville, Tennessee, executive leaders share their perspectives on the institution’s strengths-based, people-first approaches to student success, including ideas that others might model. Next week’s Student Success US conference will be held on UT’s campus.

Friendly professor explaining exercise to students in a classroom

Career Prep Tip: Teaching Entrepreneurship Students to Self-Teach With AI

A business professor at Miami University in Ohio encourages learners to use generative artificial intelligence tools to complete coursework, which he says prepares them for their future careers.

Ep. 130 Bonus Episode: Focus on Building Strengths Leads Students to Success

Enabling confidence in individuals' strengths helps teams bring about better outcomes for students.

Businesswoman accountant using a calculator, graphs and charts to analyze market data, balance sheets, accounts and net profits in order to plan new sales strategies and increase production capacity

Positive Partnership: Expanding Accounting Jobs for Associate Degree Holders

A collaboration between Ernst & Young and the Alamo Colleges District in Texas helped meet a local workforce need for accountants and placed students, regardless of major, in competitive jobs for future career mobility.

Two students hug each other in a support circle

Student Wellness Tip: Creating a Culture of Kindness With Peer Certification

Research from the Born This Way Foundation finds a majority of students use peer support or want peer support for their mental health. An expert weighs in on what works best in these programs.

Individual waits on the platform, with a backpack style pocketbook, waiting for the train to stop.

Campus Engagement Tip: Expanding Study Away Opportunities

Study abroad offers students important life and career skill development opportunities, but not every learner is able to take advantage of these programs. Domestic learning experiences give students similar exposure with fewer complications.

A Petey Greene tutor works with an incarcerated student in a classroom

Listen: A College Bridge Program for Incarcerated Students

In a new episode of Voices of Student Success, hear about a recently launched college bridge program that improves college readiness for students enrolled in higher education programs in prison.

A group of faculty and inmates sit in a large room while Goucher College president Kent Devereaux speaks

Report: Best Practices in Re-Entry, Re-Integration of Formerly Incarcerated Students

Colleges offering education for individuals in prison must provide information about how their students can access re-entry services to receive federal dollars. A recently published study from Ithaka S+R identifies trends among four institutions doing this work successfully.