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Why Some Students Fail And Other Students Succeed

By Angela Duckworth — 2017

Angela Lee Duckworth, a teacher turned psychologist, reveals what factor determines whether a student will succeed or fail.

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College Completion Network: Growth Mindset Project

A growth mindset is the belief that intelligence is something a person can develop through deliberate effort and practice. This mindset has been shown to correlate with positive academic behaviors and to increase resilience and persistence.

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2021
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22:28

How I Succeed with ADHD at Harvard [CC]

Here's a short and pretty unscripted take on how I manage and succeed with my ADHD at Harvard in general, while in lecture, studying or doing work, and while taking tests!

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2018
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07:50

Interview with an ADHD Brain: Struggling Through College and Finding Support

Scot Melville is successful by anyone’s standards. But it wasn’t easy.

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2018
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06:30

What It’s Like to Have Autism in College

This video is about what it is like to have Autism in college. I go through some of my struggles I deal with having Autism. I also give advice for people that want to go to college or are going to college. This advice is for anyone with or without Autism.

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2020
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03:06

The Four Learning Styles | 5 Challenges Freshmen Face Series w/ Maribeth Kelly

Christendom College’s Director of Student Support Services Maribeth Kelly is an expert on achieving academic success in college. In this video, she shares the four main learning styles: visual, auditory, tactile, and read/write learners.

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2020
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19:29

7 Thoughts on Being First-Gen, Low-Income at Harvard

SUBTITULOS EN ESPAÑOL DISPONIBLES Quarantine has given me the energy and time to produce this personal video diary about the experiences I've had at Harvard as a first-gen, low-income college student.

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2020
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07:22

From Migrant Farmer to Future Teacher

If you go by statistics, Raquel Pérez wasn’t supposed to be a success story. She wasn’t supposed to be an educational inspiration. Raquel is a migrant farmworker from one of the poorest regions in the country. She never experienced a complete school year in one state.

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2018
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06:20

First-Generation Graduates Read Letters from Their Parents

UC Riverside has a long history of supporting first-generation students. At 58%, first-generation students make up more than half the student population at UCR. We connected with 11 of our first-generation graduates to see what being the first in their family to graduate meant to them.

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2019
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05:42

An Immigrant Student in America: Finding a College

Ayat Husseini is standing on the threshold of a new world: college. She is facing a challenge that many immigrant students across the United States share.

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2015
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06:05

Activism for Healing and Thriving: Supporting Students of Color in Building Agency

Activism can be a source of healing but may also come at the expense of re-traumatization, burnout, and frustration.

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2020
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