CASP 2022: Strength Through Support

We know the last couple of years may feel unprecedented, but postsecondary professionals and the students they serve have been experiencing barriers and obstacles since the very beginning of our field. Our professionals were there during the early years of postsecondary education to prepare students for the rigorous arithmetic and Latin admission requirements. Since then postsecondary professionals have assisted current and incoming students as they’ve returned from multiple wars and during the Civil Rights Movement. Support also comes during times of the smaller battles when students are working multiple jobs, taking care of family, or just have been extremely underprepared by their previous institutions. Whether we were called remedial, student support, TRIO, supplemental, or developmental, students have been knocking on our doors for help for generations. 

The support that we grant students not only gives them strength, but helps them find the strength within themselves. This year CASP, together with our partners at Houston Community College, wants to celebrate all the relationships, practices, services, research, pedagogy, policies, and holistic approaches that have to foster strength and resiliency with our students over the years—and for many more years to come.