Student Success

Recent research finds students who have started college but didn’t complete a certificate or degree pointed to financial concerns as a barrier for re-enrollment, but they would be motivated to return for a higher salary.

The average college student ranks cost of living and the economy as the most important factor in their voting decision this fall, finds recent survey data from Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab.

Almost three in four college students feel raising awareness of mental health is important, but fewer know how to do so. Their colleges can promote advocacy in four ways.

Colleges and universities are encouraging students to build climate resilience and contribute to solutions through curriculum, research and experiential learning.

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.

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.

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.