Student Success Definition Discussion by

2025-03-12 15:40:37 UTC

How can we "measure" our impact on student success?

2025-03-12 15:41:23 UTC

instruction! reference! outreach! so much.

2025-03-12 15:41:47 UTC

Campus partnerships to produce student wellbeing programing (Arts Initiative, Wolverine Support Network, TheraPaws)

2025-03-12 15:42:24 UTC

student engagement programs, including michigan scholars program participation.

2025-03-12 15:42:27 UTC

Accessibility works to reduce barriers in creating accessibility in content and spaces and belonging.

2025-03-12 15:42:37 UTC

Through our internship programs

2025-03-12 15:42:42 UTC

Including student team members in consultations with colleagues, faculty, staff and other students so they can see what the work is like and contribute their perspectives

2025-03-12 15:42:53 UTC

Student success can mean so many things--should we try to be more specific in what the library's goal is for contribution? Keeping broad is inclusive, but can also start to not mean anything.

2025-03-12 15:42:54 UTC

Give students an outlet to share work, collaborate with others, engage with others, and have physical space

2025-03-12 15:43:10 UTC

Support for student affinity groups on campus

2025-03-12 15:43:24 UTC

Digital promotion of student activities, initiatives, and showcases involving student coursework.

2025-03-12 15:43:32 UTC

How can we grow the areas that are working well to enable student success and create new opportunities/initiatives to foster success?

2025-03-12 15:43:34 UTC

Working with Ask a Librarian students and making sure they are prepared for careers in the field, but also that they are cared for in all aspects.

2025-03-12 15:43:45 UTC

We teach many students how to use a research library for the first time. As library instructors, we are often viewed by students as a neutral place to get help on campus because we are not in the business of grading their work.

2025-03-12 15:43:46 UTC

The AV team assists with programmatic events (often co-curated by students) that are co sponsored by colleagues at the library. This multi point collaboration assists students in realizing their goals, visions, and works in front of an audience of their peers and the public.

2025-03-12 15:43:52 UTC

How do we balance and foreground this important goal in relation to other goals of the division/livrary

2025-03-12 15:44:04 UTC

developing collections that support student academic inquiry and personal growth, including media collections!

2025-03-12 15:44:17 UTC

With the definition of success being so broad (e.g. "each individual defines it in their own way") how can we effectively measure student success and our contribution to it?

2025-03-12 15:44:27 UTC

We talk quite a bit about student mindset, what might be going on in their lives and being sensitive to their more holistic needs. I'd like to think about what we do in this area in a more concrete way.

2025-03-12 15:44:37 UTC

in relation to focusing on personal growth, and exploring diverse education pathways: i'm finding (and exploring, myself) multiple ways to scaffold instruction, both in-lesson and by making materials available anytime and in multiple modes

2025-03-12 15:45:12 UTC

How can we better articulate the balance we attempt to strike between making sure the students have enough time for their educational and personal schedules and the work that they've committed to doing in their position in the Library? I feel like we all want them to succeed in all aspects but occasionally this balance doesn't work and we all have different thresholds for that difficult conversation

2025-03-12 15:45:17 UTC

How do we better refocus our priorities on student success when often times our resources are split by so many competing factors?

2025-03-12 15:45:19 UTC

Connecting students/instructors with visual media to enhance their understanding of history/culture/concepts

2025-03-12 15:45:26 UTC

It would be good to have a library wide event or discussion of student success to understand how other parts of the library view their roles in student success, and also to see where we can collaborate.

2025-03-12 15:45:32 UTC

promoting critical thinking around technology, creating community in online spaces

2025-03-12 15:45:43 UTC

how do we scale our priorities and efforts to reach more individual students?

2025-03-12 15:45:46 UTC

More collaboration and communication with campus partners, both for our own growth, but also so U-M partners know that the library is thinking about this and are active partners.

2025-03-12 15:45:53 UTC

How can we encourage more interdepartmental collaboration with student success in mind?

2025-03-12 15:45:59 UTC

Allocation of resources devoted to this work which will make it easier to foreground this rather than diminishing the capacity of what people are currently doing

2025-03-12 15:46:13 UTC

Continue to empower students and let them know of the ways they can utilize the library to ensure their success

2025-03-12 15:46:24 UTC

How do we quantify (?) impact to such a human and therefore complex and personal definition?

2025-03-12 15:47:40 UTC

Is there a Padlet AI Bot who can summarize all these responses for me? ;^P

2025-03-12 15:48:03 UTC

Could we come up with a list of specific characteristics or elements where we do make a difference as a library, so it can be made more tangible for our colleagues.

2025-03-12 15:48:09 UTC

I would love to see some intention around providing opportunities for mentorship and advancement for those students who are interested in library roles and positions as a future profession, especially considering how difficult things may be from here on out for anyone who wants to find their profession in our fields

2025-03-13 15:54:24 UTC

How can we tell the story, in compelling ways, to our community, including potential students, current students, faculty, donors, etc., of our impact on student success and achievements? Relying on library Comm department can't be the only source for our storytelling.