Academic Life

A University of South Florida professor created a chat bot to motivate online learners by providing strategies to complete academic work. The chat bot, launched this spring, will undergo updates to better support students this year.

Staff lead student success workshops in the classroom in professors’ absence to equip students with professional development and academic skills like time management, financial literacy and résumé building.

Collaboration between the enrollment management department and undergraduate advising at the University of California, Irvine, is centered on using data to promote individual student success.

Central Oregon Community College will create a student success center for its student veterans, offering additional services and greater access to support staff.

Administrators at Thomas More University reorganized its core curriculum design for students to follow a nine-credit concentration as a second major, minor or interdisciplinary coursework.

In her inaugural role as coordinator of student success coaches, Lopez-Perez partners with academically at-risk students and leads a team of coaches in promoting student success and life skill development for University at Buffalo students.

The first-generation support and scholarship program will launch its first cohorts of students at 10 new partner institutions this fall.

While college-in-prison programs are poised to expand, some educators and advocates worry prospective students in jails are getting left behind.