Saint Paul College was recently featured in the Higher Learning Commission (HLC)’s newsletter, The Leaflet. The digital article focused on the college’s participation in the HLC first-ever Student Success Academy.

With the help from the Student Success Academy, the new leadership at Saint Paul College implemented significant changes:

• Realigning our focus on the whole student rather than relying on success/failure rates often evaluated in assessing student success rates – we became more interested and focused on the student's well-being beyond the classroom.
• In response to growing mental health challenges, we increased our availability of mentoring and hiring mental health counselors to assist students facing trauma or uncomfortable ways.
• Establishing policies and protocols to become an anti-racist, trauma-informed (ARTI) institution to help all students comfortably fit in on campus.