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Understanding The Sheridan First Year Experience: An Integrated Approach, Anne Coulter, Dawn Sweeney, Danielle Palombi
Understanding The Sheridan First Year Experience: An Integrated Approach, Anne Coulter, Dawn Sweeney, Danielle Palombi
Division of Students
A Sheridan student’s first year is a critical period and plays an important role in future success. While some students are transitioning from high school, others are transferring from other postsecondary institutions or coming to Sheridan from the labour market. Students are faced with the challenge of adjusting to a new environment in the midst of life changes such as re-locating to a new community or a new country. All of our first-year students are learning to navigate new institutional policies and processes in addition to establishing new friends and support networks. The critical nature of investing in the first-year …
The Student Experience: Engaging In Cultural And Economic Shifts In Higher Education, Danielle Palombi
The Student Experience: Engaging In Cultural And Economic Shifts In Higher Education, Danielle Palombi
Publications and Scholarship
This research essay explores culture and economics as dynamics of VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) and their relationship to the invigoration of the student experience in higher education. The way in which academic institutions critically engage in the student experience is arguably essential for thriving in a VUCA world because its function as a cultural differentiator in the competing higher education marketplace, the response it provides to changing student demographics, and the effort needed to retain and graduate students in higher education institutions.