Essential Glossary for Increasing Student Success

The College Reading & Learning Association (CRLA) Publications Committee is delighted to share with you a new free resource, "Essential Glossary for Increasing Postsecondary Student Success: Administrators, Faculty, Staff, and Policymakers (3rd ed.)," which was a project that I was honored to serve as editor for this third edition. There was a big team that produced this resource. I wrote in the introduction, “Developmental education and learning assistance have changed dramatically in recent years, and so must also the language used to describe and define them. This glossary is useful for the wide field of educators involved with promoting student success. It provides precise language and definitions to use when communicating with peers and more effectively influencing administrators, legislators, and the media” (p. 2). This glossary is vastly expanded from the second edition. Rather than saying more, click on the link to it provided below.

This resource is free to download and disseminate. Click on the following URL for the document from the CRLA website, https://crla.net/images/whitepaper/CRLA_2023_EssentialGlossary_FA.pdf

New Podcast: Peer Group Library Podcast

This is a new podcast that I am providing. The topic are audio summaries of articles and research studies about college peer study programs. Each episode is focused on a different topic. The narration is provided by me and my synthetic voices. I hope you find it interesting and useful. The podcast is available through Apple, Google, and most all the other podcast apps. Happy listening.

Overview of the EOA National Best Education Practices Clearinghouse

This short video highlights the EOA National Best Education Practices Clearinghouse. The Clearinghouse identifies, validates, and disseminates best education practices to improve student outcomes for GEAR UP and TRIO students. These students are often poor, historically-underrepresented, first generation in their families to attend college, and have little to no social capital to help them achieve their dreams. The Clearinghouse provides practices that equity programs can adapt and employ to support student success in their programs. Also, GU and TRIO programs are eligible to submit administrative and educational practices to the Clearinghouse for inclusion.