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Item Cardinal SUCCESS Quarterly: Issue 2 - April 2024(2024-04-26) University College, Ball State UniversityWelcome to the second edition of Cardinal SUCCESS Quarterly. In this edition, you will find helpful information on the work we are doing to support students experiencing academic challenges. Importantly, you will notice a shift in our terminology when referring to students who fail to meet our academic standing policies. Last fall, Ball State University made an intentional decision to move away from using criminal justice lexicon when referring to students who fail to meet satisfactory academic standing. Instead of using the term probation when referring to students who fall below a 2.0 GPA threshold, we now refer to these students as those experiencing academic warning. This change aligns with Ball State University’s efforts to be a student-ready institution committed to ensuring every student we admit feels valued, respected, and supported. The important work of Dr. Shannon Brady and her colleagues on the use of psychologically attuned communications to improve academic outcomes for students who have not made adequate academic progress during an academic term has also informed our approach. Simply put, words matter! The utilization of terms like academic probation may foster traumatic experiences which may be particularly acute for Black and Brown students who face racial bias, microaggressions, and subtractive experiences. It may also create traumatic experiences for students who have been exposed to the criminal justice system. Boretz (2021) argues that that “such language has an effect on underrepresented students’ sense of belonging and perceived ability to thrive as learners and future learners”1. 1. http://itwebstg.fullerton.edu/aac/Academic%20Notice%20White%20Paper%202021.pdfItem Cardinal SUCCESS Quarterly: Issue 1 - Spring 2024(2024-02-06) University College, Ball State UniversityWelcome to our new quarterly E-magazine, a publication that will highlight student success stories, data, and efforts at Ball State! Over the last two years, we have hosted two important summits to learn from one another more intentionally about how to best support our students and their academic successes. We are now launching Cardinal S.U.C.C.E.S.S.—Sustained University-wide Campus Conversations on Equity and Student Success. This publication is your one-stop shop for all the latest news regarding student success and is designed to keep you informed on the latest trends, and developments in the world of student success at Ball State and in higher education. As you know, there are many student success efforts underway at every level at Ball State to support educational opportunities and close opportunity and outcome gaps. We are committed to providing our students with the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to achieve success in all of their endeavors. As we continue to mature in our strategic student success work, my hope is that our sustained conversations about equity and student success will allow us to reach more students in ways that are authentic and meaningful.