10 Ways to Build Your Students' Resilience and Involvement

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10 Ways to Build Your Students' Resilience and Involvement

10 Ways to Build Your Students’ Resilience and Involvement

Developing resilience is critical to student success. Difficult situations can arise at any point, but during this new chapter of independence, college students -- who may already be experiencing many new stressors all at once, such as busy class schedules, extracurriculars, and competing work, studying and social demands -- might find encountering setbacks and obstacles demoralizing or even derailing. While students with healthy resilience are able to adapt and tackle obstacles that arise, others who lack resilience may develop anxiety, depression or unhealthy coping strategies.

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Make Your 2021 Career Fair the Most Successful!

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Make Your 2021 Career Fair the Most Successful!

Make your 2021 Career Fair the most successful!

Career fairs provide students with the chance to learn about new companies and make face-to-face connections with potential employers and recruiters. Launched in 2020, as an alternative to in-person fairs, virtual fairs are a product of the Covid-19 Pandemic. They have, however, changed the mindset of how career fairs should be managed forever and are now a mainstay of early talent recruiting.

The benefits of this next-generation student engagement experience are proven. Whether your 2021 career fair will be fully in-person or hybrid, having a virtual guide or app is instrumental to the process from both an efficiency and qualitative perspective. Outlined below are five key takeaways, demonstrating why leveraging an online career fair platform will maximize the success of your next career fair.

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26 Tips for Hosting a Successful & Engaging Virtual Student Orientation

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26 Tips for Hosting a Successful & Engaging Virtual Student Orientation

26 Tips for Hosting a Successful & Engaging Virtual Student Orientation

Connect Your Virtual Community! Whether campus life will be in-person, virtual or blended this fall, administrators in charge of welcoming their newest students are charged with a unique challenge in adapting in-person programming and resources into an engaging online format. The stakes are high, too. Welcome Week is typically the first opportunity to build relationships and introduce new students to the culture and traditions of your campus. With this new challenge, though, comes an enormous opportunity to elevate your orientation programming with virtual components that are accessible, engaging and sustainable over the entire onboarding process. With some creativity, innovation and helpful technologies, your virtual orientation can become a truly immersive and enriching experience for your campus community!

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5 Tips for Increasing Student Involvement: Implementation of CampusGroups Student Engagement Portal at Presbyterian College

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5 Tips for Increasing Student Involvement: Implementation of CampusGroups Student Engagement Portal at Presbyterian College

5 Tips for Increasing Student Involvement: Implementation of CampusGroups Student Engagement Portal at Presbyterian College

To increase student engagement, Presbyterian College’s Office of Student Involvement selected CampusGroups in December 2020 as the college’s dedicated technology solution. After just one month, CampusGroups launched as the college’s official student involvement platform. Here are 5 tips for selecting and implementing a student engagement software, based on Presbyterian College’s successful roll-out!

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February 2021: Latest Updates to CampusGroups

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February 2021: Latest Updates to CampusGroups

This month, we have been busy implementing new features and helpful improvements for the CampusGroups community. We are also continuing to develop reports and marketing resources to provide you with supportive tools and assets. Thank you for sharing your feedback on what is important and helpful for your campus!

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Happy New Year! January 2021: Latest Updates, 2020 Highlights & What’s New for 2021

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Happy New Year! January 2021: Latest Updates, 2020 Highlights & What’s New for 2021

Happy New Year from the CampusGroups team!

2020 was certainly a year like no other. We’re very proud to support our campuses during a challenging and innovative year and are excited to share some of our great engagement numbers from 2020, as well as lots of exciting things to come in 2021!

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