April 2023

Student Success Updates

A diverse group of students walk on campus together smiling and laughing. Text reads: Listening Lab: elevating student voices to improve equity.
Award recipients Debra Thornton and Erika Espinoza accept their respective awards. Text below image reads: Undergraduate Advisors receive awards  for diversity and leadership

Everyday awe and other lessons learned

The 2023 Student Success Summit, “Building Bridges and Cultivating Compassion,” is on May 15, 2023 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. If you haven’t registered yet, there’s still time! Below, Student Success Summit Planning Committee member and strategic retention manager Justin St. Charles shares some of his own journey in cultivating compassion and building bridges and its value in our lives and work.


From the assistant dean for student success assessment and strategic initiatives

College is the best four years of your life

Associate provost Mark Largent

This month, on the eve of graduation, I decided that I wanted to highlight the fruits of our labors by having a graduating senior write about her experiences. Katy Zink came to MSU from Huntington Woods, MI. She is graduating with a Human Biology major and Bioethics minor from Lyman Briggs College. She’s planning to take a gap year to travel and work as an OB/GYN Medical Assistant while she applies to medical schools.


From the desk of the vice provost