Building Skills for Student Success: Creating and Maintaining Partnerships

In the third episode of this four-part series, our guests chat about strategies for creating and maintaining partnerships with campus stakeholders to bolster student success. First, Ceceilia Parnther, assistant professor in the Department of Administrative and Instructional Leadership at St. John’s University, María Evelia Emerson, Student Success Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Amber Eakin, Instructional Librarian at Strayer University, explain the benefits of forming relationships with academic advisors, student services, and teaching faculty to better support student goals. In addition, Andrew Boney, executive editor in Sage’s Learning Resources Division, shares the publisher’s role in strengthening ties between the library and faculty, primarily through surfacing available resources and underscoring the library’s work on campus. To close, our guests walk through various tactics they’ve employed to strengthen these relationships, and highlight the significant benefits and techniques of following up.