Student Success

At the start of 2022, as I was doing a job search, many people kept asking me what I was most passionate about. I think we all know that we have more than one passion, but if we were forced to choose, we would do so. From a professional/career standpoint, I am most passionate about student success in college. In part, this is because I struggled a bit with student success for a couple years in college. I had excellent grades but I was unhappy until I discovered college outside classes. One quote I use to describe my love for student success is that “I have actively mastered what I passively suffered” (Savickes). I have studied student success for over 30 years through reading, writing, presenting, and practicing it.

The following are some of the articles and/or insights I have written on this topic:

  1. A Hierarchy of Needs for Student Success
  2. My Million Dollar Idea (for Student Success)
  3. Missing Data from Student Engagement that Can Improve Student Success
  4. An Institutional Maturity Model for Student Success
  5. Why a Focus on Organizational Performance can be More Important than Relationships with Students
  6. Helping Students to Succeed in College by Learning to Ride a Bike – Part 1
  7. Helping Students to Succeed in College by Learning to Ride a Bike – Part 2
  8. When Students and Faculty are Online, How Do Student Affairs/Academic Staff Have an Impact?