Student Success in Higher Education

Student Success in Higher Education: Developing the Whole Person through High Impact Practices provides front-line educators with a new student success model based on the latest research in the psychology of well-being and student-centered learning. This model integrates five critical student success functional areas-academic advising, career services, counseling and psychological services, faculty teaching, and student engagement-and helps colleges and universities develop psychologically healthy and self-aware students as a part of their educational mission. Drawing upon over 30 years of professional experiences as higher education leaders, teachers, and counselors, the authors have developed the Integrated Student Success Model (iSuccess), a visionary and comprehensive approach to student success through well-being and self-knowledge. The model provides three research-based, high-impact practices that empower students to create their own pathways to success in college and in life: -Integrated Self Model (iSelf) - a framework to understand the whole person through self-system and positive psychology attributes -Self Across the Curriculum (SAC) - a pedagogy to teach self-knowledge through curricula -Success Predictor (SP) - a student success assessment instrument and intervention tool When the self becomes the lens through which students learn, students can balance cognitive with non-cognitive factors to become happy and whole people who are equipped to create a positive life and make contributions toward a better society.
About the Author: Elaine J. Brzycki, EdM, serves on the advisory board of The Brzycki Group, where she co-develops programs and strategically guides the future of educational services. Ms. Brzycki is co-director of the not-for-profit Center for The Self in Schools, leading outreach initiatives. Ms. Brzycki graduated from Wellesley College and attended Oxford University in England. She earned her EdM from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and she has over twenty-five years of experience working in higher education, including at Tufts University and Harvard University. Ms. Brzycki is an education strategy and planning manager within WPSU Penn State, a unit of Penn State Outreach and Online Education at The Pennsylvania State University, where she brings to life high-impact projects that require collaboration across multiple university functions and distribution on multiple platforms. She is the former chair of a cross-unit collaboration committee of the Engagement Leadership Team for Penn State Outreach and Online Education, and serves on the Penn State Council on Engaged Scholarship. Her efforts have engaged graduate assistants, student interns, and student volunteers in projects that foster dialog around critical and timely issues in environment, technology, and health. She is committed to empowering people's self-expression and to the transfer of wisdom and goodness from one generation to the next. Henry G. Brzycki, PhD, has more than thirty years of experience providing leadership to the fields of education and psychology. Dr. Brzycki challenges scholars and practitioners to expand their boundaries of understanding in order to impact the quality of people's lives. Dr. Brzycki founded The Brzycki Group, where his innovative counseling and psycho-educational programs pioneered positive psychology and strengths-based counseling methods. Dr. Brzycki consults to schools, colleges, foundations, and policy makers on how to realize the potential of people. Most recently, he co-founded The Center for the Self in Schools. The Center's nonprofit mission is to impact the psychological, socioemotional, and physical well-being of K-16 students through outreach programs, professional development, self-knowledge curricula, student affairs psychological and career counseling, and student success high-impact practices.