Students

A “broke-woke-stroke” convergence may be to blame, Mark Horowitz, Anthony L. Haynor and Kenneth Kickham write.

Students spent three terrifying hours on lockdown while police investigated a fatal shooting at a science building on the Chapel Hill campus. At Edward Waters University, a near miss.

The university admitted a record number of students this year despite a tight local housing market. But in the end, officials expect to increase head count by only about 730 students.

As the inaugural vice president of student access and success at the Utah institution, Oyler is responsible for kick-starting institutional goals to break down silos in service offerings and expand opportunities for holistic support for learners.

By consolidating services, staff hope students will become more familiar with the resources available to them and more inclined to use them.

Once designed simply to familiarize students with campus and each other, orientation has become a forum for imparting information about some of the most pressing issues in higher ed.

Two higher education practitioners share their experiences promoting student success in extracurricular activity support and what it taught them about their role.