Practice

Proactive Advising

Tailoring Support

Ecological Validation

Professional Learning Communities

Featured Practice: Well-being

This brief aims to expand how higher education leaders, practitioners and policymakers understand and support student well-being. Moving beyond an exclusive focus on individual mental health, it emphasizes the social, institutional and ecological factors that shape students’ well-being, which has been shown to have clear implications for academic success. The brief outlines key findings and provides recommendations to foster holistic well-being for students, faculty and staff.

Download the Brief

Policy & Practice Briefs

We have developed a number of briefs focused on issues related to the success of at-promise students in higher education. In each brief, we provide key takeaways based on the evidence from our study, make recommendations for practice, and offer questions to guide efforts on other campuses.

PRACTICE

Featured Practice: Well-being

Policy & Practice Briefs

Advancing major and career success for at-promise student success.

Considering college students as “at-promise.”

Creating a culture of ecological validation to improve at-promise student experiences and outcomes.

Creating a campus-wide culture that supports low-income, racially minoritized, and first-generation college students: Syllabus for a cross-functional professional learning community.

Creating a context for at-promise students to thrive: Relating psychosocial and academic outcomes.

Designing comprehensive college transition programs to support students’ long-term success.

Developing a summit or professional development event.

Engaging at-promise students for success through innovative practices: proactive advising and shared academic courses.

Expanding understandings of well-being in higher education settings

Exploring professionalism with at-promise college students.

Guiding principles for comprehensive college support programs.

How instructors in higher education can support an ecology of validation for low-income, first-generation, and racially minoritized students.

Improving communications to at-promise students: A validating approach-activity.

Proactive advising practice guide: How advisors can support at-promise student success with proactive advising strategies.

Promoting at-promise college student success through peer mentoring.

Promoting college students’ major and career self-efficacy through validating support.

Qualitative narrative of methods: Promoting at-promise student success (PASS) project.

Re-envisioning campuses to holistically support students: The ecological validation model for student success.

The power of autobiographical reading and writing courses.

Understanding how time use in college shapes at-promise students’ well-being during the first-year transition