Dr. Larry Parker II and Dr. Miguel Baique

Dr. Larry Parker II is a scholar-practitioner whose work sits at the intersection of behavioral change, student development, and higher education leadership. Dr. Miguel Baique is a higher education leader, scholar, and former director of the David T. Kearns Center for Leadership and Diversity at the University of Rochester, where he oversaw comprehensive student success initiatives supporting first-generation, low-income, and historically underrepresented students.

Student success isn’t a checklist. It’s a process of change

Those of us working most closely with students know that persistence does not happen because a resource exists. It happens because a student is ready to engage in it.