Getting Involved on Campus: What Student Organizations Should You Join?

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Getting Involved on Campus: What Student Organizations Should You Join?

When Isabella arrived on campus, she was excited to meet new people and discover more about herself and her new home. She knew that academics would take up a lot of her time but she didn’t want to miss out on campus life outside of the classroom.

She’d seen the movies. Wild parties and red Solo cups. That wasn’t the overall college experience she was after, though. Her eyes were on the prize: getting into a top graduate school. Even with her scholarship, Isabella understood the price tag of her education, and she had no intention of wasting the experience.

To get started on the right foot, Isabella decided to meet with her campus director of student life & activities. There, she received advice that could and would change her entire trajectory, helping to shape her campus experience and illuminate a pathway to reach her goals.

One key piece of advice Isabella received was that many enriching opportunities were available and happening all around her!

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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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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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