Student Success

Western Illinois University will expand its academic peer support program for STEM students across campuses and partner with a local community college to launch the program there as well.

Capturing students’ attention can be a challenge in lecture halls. Here are four suggestions for creating active learning environments in large class settings.

Since AI is here to stay, instructors should consider using new approaches to assessing student knowledge, write Graham Clay and Cambriae W. Lee. They offer ideas for preparing dialogue-based activities and assessments, including how they can be enhanced with AI.

The University of Denver’s IT and marketing teams partnered to create educational resources and outreach programs to engage students while making them aware of the signs and dangers of phishing emails.

Fort Hays State University gave the reins of website Tiger-2-Tiger, initially a digital learning community, to students to share, inspire and motivate one another asynchronously and synchronously.

Two longtime staff members serve as coaches, mentors and guides for 140 scholarship recipients every year, relying on their wealth of knowledge of the university to support students’ definitions of success.

What would students do to ease stress if they were responsible for health and wellness on their campuses? Student Voice asked and students answered, with ideas ranging from mental health check-ins and wellness days to study groups and free food.

Babson College partnered with Nord University to offer an intercultural learning opportunity for master’s students at both institutions starting next spring.