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Podcast: Instructional Ecology
Episode: Looking Beyond the Classroom
Description: In this episode, we engage one of the issues that higher education has never solved: what to do when students' academic failure is rooted in their life circumstances outside of the classroom. As an open enrollment college with neither dorms nor on-campus food service, we don't provide a baseline of basic needs support that residential colleges do. Also, we serve a broad sampling of the community so our students have a broad range of financial and social stability.Here, we talk with Muffy Allison, a licensed social worker and member of Counseling Services here...