LOOKING AHEAD TO 2025…
Plans are now being made for the 2025 conference schedule, following an insightful Fall 2024 conference hosted at the University of Hartford, Mental Health on Campus for Students, Faculty & Staff.
High Impact Retention Practices - UPDATED FOR 2025
Research suggests core practices that, if implemented with fidelity, can significantly increase retention on any campus. They range from quality summer after graduation programs to embedded support, guided pathways to emergency funds.
Take a look at the document compiled by CHERE Director David Johnston in 2020, and most recently updated in December 2024.
Click on the document to view and download the PDF…
A MESSAGE FOR OUR TIMES, FROM CHERE
As we move past the height of the pandemic, we can still feel disconnected from the important work we do to support the students and families who depend on us for our skills, talents and efforts. CHERE continues to provide timely conferences and a forum for ideas that can help us all do better, dealing effectively with the new realities, now and into the future.
How do we bridge the digital divide? How do we keep students engaged when “campus life” is an uncertain and evolving reality? How do we respond to the mental health challenges that are unmistakable and imperative?
Share with us any especially good ideas you’ve come up with. Raise any questions that you find most daunting and for which you’d invite other ideas and perspectives.
Send your ideas and questions to educationRwe2@gmail.com And join us in 2025 for engaging, timely conferences. Thank you!
CHERE IN THE NEWS
Impact of Virtual Learning on Students, Educators Explored, Greater Hartford Patch, January 7, 2021
Higher Education Issues Addressed at Conference, New Britain Herald, October 15, 2019
Being Diverse Isn’t Enough, West Hartford Patch, June 8, 2019
Summer Bridge Programs,Hartford Courant, July 2, 2019
CHERE to Offer Two-Day Conference on Non-Traditional Students, Hartford Courant, July 22, 2015
'Seamless counseling' can stay the course, New London Day, May 12, 2014
Top students at some Connecticut high schools are finding that they’re not fully prepared for university courses. For some students, being at the top of their class isn’t enough.