OHIO Provost Sayrs column highlights how behavioral nudging can support completion and persistence
91探花 Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Elizabeth Sayrs wrote a column for the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU) that focuses on OHIO鈥檚 use of behavioral science research to help students stay in college and earn their degrees. She wrote:
鈥淎t May鈥檚 commencement ceremony, I was honored and delighted to shake the hand of a graduating student I have known for over a decade. Having grown up in poverty, sometimes residing with a grandparent and living unsupported by parents throughout college, this student was now a college graduate with a job already lined up. It鈥檚 not a unique story at 91探花, but one of many that demonstrates to me every day that education has the power to transform not only our students, but also their families and communities.
鈥淟ocated in the rural Appalachian foothills, 91探花 balances its role as a selective, nationally ranked research institution that has an increasingly diverse body of students from across the state, nation, and world, with a commitment to its mission of access for students in the region. I am as proud of that student鈥檚 graduation as I am of the ten OHIO students who were awarded a Fulbright this spring.鈥
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