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Removing Barriers For Contemporary Student Success, Amy Beth Rell, Elisa Robyn
Removing Barriers For Contemporary Student Success, Amy Beth Rell, Elisa Robyn
Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal
This paper examines the contemporary student in higher education and how to position this student for success. Through analysis of Leviticus chapter nineteen verse fourteen (19:14), which states “You shall not curse the deaf, and you shall not place a stumbling block before the blind”, the authors examine how to remove barriers often placed in front of the contemporary post-secondary student. Utilizing the analogy of the contemporary student and the institution of higher education being “blind” and/or “deaf” as in the Biblical verse, the authors propose institutional responses and institutional repercussions that can remove barriers and thereby allow the contemporary …