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Call for applications – Transitions Research Team 2022/2023

The Transitions Research Team is looking to add new members to the family!   Since 2017, members of the team have worked together to conduct research focused on the experiences of first-generation and/or low-income students at Vassar. In previous years, we have focused on the factors that produce or inhibit…

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Transitions: A Program for First Generation, Low Income, and Undocumented Students

Check out the piece on Transitions in Vassar Stories from December 20, 2016!  

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Transitions: A Program for First Generation, Low Income, and Undocumented Students

Check out the piece on Transitions in Vassar Stories from December 20, 2016!  

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Eréndira Rueda and Candice Lowe Swift publish Academic Belonging in Higher Education

In this important new book, “12 chapters in the volume introduce readers to an array of collaborative, cutting-edge efforts pursued by faculty, students, administrators, and researchers to develop pedagogies, programs, strategies, and environments that help students develop academic belonging; that is, a sense of connection, competence, and confidence in academic domains. [The book] addresses the growing emphasis on taking students’ subjective experiences of belonging into account when engaging in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts…Various chapters highlight the need to recognize institutional-level factors that shape student sense of belonging, rather than focusing primarily or exclusively on individual-level factors that shape student experience and outcomes. While the scholarship on belonging has identified an array of factors that are associated with student sense of belonging, including the important role of faculty, there is little research that addresses what faculty can do in concrete terms to promote a sense of belonging, particularly in the domain where they have the most influence—academic belonging.”—Taylor & Francis Group