University Libraries’ Student Success Initiatives teach students to find, evaluate and use information—skills that are relevant to all aspects of life. Students learn to evaluate multiple perspectives, and that there is often more than one right answer. They also discover that information literacy is complicated; in addition to developing their cognitive thinking skills, our programs teach students to manage the negative emotions that can arise when information is more challenging to find or understand than they expect it to be. The result is more successful students.
Our Student Success Initiatives impact every student who participates. Donor support will enable University Libraries to touch an even greater number of lives by growing both our team and our programs by adding an information literacy librarian, student success research postdoctoral fellows and peer coaches and instructors.