Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Prior to 2015 it was difficult to find much formal acknowledgement of student food insecurity, let alone services to help. When a couple of student affairs practitioners created the College and University Food Bank Alliance in 2012, it had just 10 members. In many ways, it’s a sign of progress.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Scholars agree that institutions should use this data as a starting point to ask themselves the important questions about how many of their students are completing and what they need to do to help everyone cross the finish line. Smith, assistant professor of higher education and student affairs at Auburn University in Alabama. “If

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Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

MARCH 2, 2017

The idea being that technology would remove the human element and that it would be almost impossible to create technology-based systems that would elevate and enhance the human experience of higher education. Just think about all of the human-friendly technology-based services that make up the modern university.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Stress is a natural part of the human condition, and can be performance enhancing at low to moderate levels. This response has had adaptive value over the course of human evolution, when stressors often involved reacting to immediate threats to our survival. Within student affairs, representation in programming offered (e.g.

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