The Promoting Student Success Series encourages campuswide conversations about promoting and advancing the culture of student success. This lecture series has been designed to inform the development of a vision for the role of WSU educators in promoting student success.
Each academic year, WSU educators hear from nationally renowned speakers regarding student success efforts in various contexts. Our goal is to identify strategies to better coordinate WSU efforts around student success and better define the roles of educators in promoting student success.
2024-2025
August 19, 2024
WSU Back to School Keynote Address & Workshop
Author, contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, speaker, reporter and producer on public-radio and founder of Open Letters online magazine.
→ Keynote Address
- 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
- Austad Auditorium at the Browning Center
Join Keynote Webinar
Passcode: 333439
→ Workshop
- 1-2 p.m.
- Shepherd Union Skyroom (SU 404)
Join Workshop Webinar
Passcode: 679519
Paul Tough is the author, most recently, of The Inequality Machine: How College Divides Us (previously titled The Years That Matter Most). His three previous books include How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, which was translated into 27 languages and spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback best-seller lists.
Paul is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine; his writing has also appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, GQ, and Esquire, and on the op-ed page of the New York Times. He is a speaker on topics including education, parenting, equity, and student success. He has worked as an editor at the New York Times Magazine and Harper’s Magazine and as a reporter and producer for the public-radio program “This American Life.” He was the founding editor of Open Letters, an online magazine. He lives with his wife and two sons in Austin, Texas.
You can access the videos of previous presentations by enrolling in the Promoting Student Success Canvas course in three easy steps:
1. Go to: https://weber.instructure.
2. Log in using your Wildcat username and password, (if you are not already logged in on the browser.)
3. Click the "Enroll in Course" button located on the right side of the screen.
Please peruse the materials and feel free to contribute to the dialogue about what we can do to promote student success even more or better than we already do at WSU.