
The Power of Professor Engagement: Connecting through Student Success
In higher education, student success is a widely used yet insufficiently defined concept. While some students equate success with academic
November 2025



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“As we see in ongoing global youth activism, and as many of us feel in our classrooms daily, students barely have the patience to go through the motions of getting an education as a means to an individualist, career-oriented end. They are waking up to the fact that their time on this planet is limited, and that what they—and we—do now will significantly shape the future of life for all beings on this planet. Students want something different from their education than what their professors studied. How will we as educators—often exhausted, burned out, and despairing, too—rise to this moment?”
—Sarah Jaquette Ray and Jennifer Atkinson, “Climate, Justice, and Emotions in the Classroom”

In higher education, student success is a widely used yet insufficiently defined concept. While some students equate success with academic

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I hadn’t given any thought to what student success means because like other widely used descriptors, its meaning appears obvious.
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