The Dr. Barbara Carey-Shuler Student Success Center

We are Student Success Champions

The Student Success Center’s work is guided by three principles, with the intent of fully affecting change and developing a student success mindset in pedagogy, service, and leadership. 

In alignment with the College’s Strategic Plan, the Center leads research, development, and implementation of high impact practices supporting successful outcomes for all students.

• Engage: Proactively conduct and utilize research and data analysis that drives the direction and best practices leading to institutional change that results in measurable outcomes for students. 
• Excel: Intentionally design programs, empower students through their own learning, and partner with students to meet their academic, personal, and professional goals. 
• Expand: Authentically implement practices that will help the College shift from the traditional focus on access to a broader focus on retention and completion.

 

Dr. Barbara Carey-Shuler is a local philanthropist and former longtime educator and elected official in Florida. She made a generous gift to PBSC to start the Dr. Barbara Carey-Shuler Student Success Center. The center focuses on addressing issues around increasing access, retention, and completion, which has become a prolific part of the national dialogue in higher education. Improving outcomes and closing the gaps will be a focus of this center. 

As Dr. Carey-Shuler indicated, “I want Palm Beach State College to be a leader in this area because this is not only happening at the College, but it is something you can find around the nation.”  

She invites the community to designate their gifts to one of two funds:  the center’s General Operating Fund or the center’s Student Scholarship & Support Fund.

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