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Student Success

Make Yourself at Home: Impacting Sense of Belonging Through Resource Utilization

“Make yourself at home!” We say this often to folks as they enter the space we call home, and surely have heard the same from others when we enter ...

Research Spotlight

Closing the Resource Utilization Gap in Higher Education: How to Increase Help Seeking Skills in New Students

In universities across the country, administrators have identified a gap between institutional resources and how—or if—students use them. This rift ...

Research Spotlight

Making an Impact on Persistence, Retention and the First-Year Experience

Peer mentorship has been increasingly embraced as a high-impact practice in higher education (Collier, 2017). Motivated by research validating the ...

Research Spotlight

Navigating the Hidden Curriculum: Increasing First-Generation Student Enrollment and Success Through Large-Scale Peer Mentorship at IUSB

Indiana University South Bend (IUSB) is the third-largest campus in the Indiana University system. They have a total student population of nearly ...