Empower your Campus with a Centralized Events Calendaring System

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Empower your Campus with a Centralized Events Calendaring System

Having a centralized events calendaring system is the foundation of any active campus community. It stimulates student engagement by facilitating event organization and keeping students informed of what is happening on campus. While there are several enterprise calendaring systems out there, some platforms are more powerful than others. It is important when shopping around to carefully assess the needs of your specific institution and to know the ins-and-outs of the various platforms available. The most successful ones are very powerful and contain a large variety of different features, taking an event from A to Z. They were also created to foster and measure student involvement, which has been proven to positively affect student success and retention.

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14 Ways to Gamify Student Engagement & Learning

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14 Ways to Gamify Student Engagement & Learning

14 Ways to Gamify Student Engagement & Learning

Continuously evolving trends and technologies change the way people acquire information.

For college students facing demanding schedules, heavy workloads and an often overwhelming amount of content consumption, campus administrators and faculty are always searching for ways to more effectively engage students in and outside of the classroom to get them more active and involved in campus life.

Implementing gamification is a useful strategy to get students excited and enthusiastic about learning, while transforming even the most difficult or mundane subjects into programs and lessons with which students actually want to engage.

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How to Empower First Generation Students

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How to Empower First Generation Students

First generation college students constitute a large and growing segment of the student body. First generation students face unique challenges. They need additional support throughout the entire college experience, starting with the application process through to graduation. A powerful engagement strategy and dedicated resources are key to attracting and retaining this segment of the student population. Below are 5 ways to empower and increase the success of first generation students.

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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 Studentsโ€™ 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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12 Key Strategies to Improve Student Retention

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12 Key Strategies to Improve Student Retention

12 Key Strategies to Improve Student Retention

When considering student retention initiatives, higher education administrators often examine how a student is integrated into the campus community both academically and socially. Accordingly, retention strategies that focus on these two key areas, including academic interventions and a sense of belonging, are critical to a studentโ€™s success. Developing actionable plans to identify students in need and implement supportive programs greatly improves student retention rates by helping struggling students not only to get back on track, but integrate themselves as active, integral members in their campus communities.

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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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