91¶ÌÊÓƵ

Promoting Student Success Series

The Promoting Student Success Series encourages campuswide conversations about promoting and advancing the culture of student success. This lecture series has been designed to inform the development of a vision for the role of 91¶ÌÊÓƵ educators in promoting student success.

Each academic year, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ educators hear from nationally renowned speakers regarding student success efforts in various contexts. Our goal is to identify strategies to better coordinate 91¶ÌÊÓƵ efforts around student success and better define the roles of educators in promoting student success.

2024-2025

 

August 19, 2024

91¶ÌÊÓƵ Back to School Keynote Address & Workshop

Paul Tough

Author, contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, speaker, reporter and producer on public-radio and founder of Open Letters online magazine.

→ Keynote Address

  • 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
  • Austad Auditorium at the Browning Center


Passcode: 333439

→ Workshop

  • 1-2 p.m.
  • Shepherd Union Skyroom (SU 404)


Passcode: 679519

 

Paul Tough is the author, most recently, of (previously titled The Years That Matter Most). His three previous books include , which was translated into 27 languages and spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback best-seller lists.

Paul is a contributing writer to the ; his writing has also appeared in the , the , , and , and on the of the New York Times. He is a on topics including education, parenting, equity, and student success.  He has worked as an editor at the New York Times Magazine and Harper’s Magazine and as a reporter and producer for the public-radio program “.” He was the founding editor of , an online magazine. He lives with his wife and two sons in Austin, Texas.

 

You can access the videos of previous presentations by enrolling in the Promoting Student Success Canvas course in three easy steps:

1. Go to: 

2. Log in using your Wildcat username and password, (if you are not already logged in on the browser.) 

3. Click the "" button located on the right side of the screen.

Please peruse the materials and feel free to contribute to the dialogue about what we can do to promote student success even more or better than we already do at 91¶ÌÊÓƵ.