Student Success in Higher Education: Developing the Whole Person Through High Impact Practices

Elaine J. Brzycki, EdM, serves on the advisory board of The Brzycki Group, where she co-develops programs and strategically guides the future of educational services. Ms. Brzycki is co-director of the not-for-profit Center for The Self in Schools, leading outreach initiatives. Ms. Brzycki graduated from Wellesley College and attended Oxford University in England. She earned her EdM from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and she has over twenty-five years of experience working in higher education, including at Tufts University and Harvard University. Ms. Brzycki is an education strategy and planning manager within WPSU Penn State, a unit of Penn State Outreach and Online Education at The Pennsylvania State University, where she brings to life high-impact projects that require collaboration across multiple university functions and distribution on multiple platforms. She is the former chair of a cross-unit collaboration committee of the Engagement Leadership Team for Penn State Outreach and Online Education, and serves on the Penn State Council on Engaged Scholarship. Her efforts have engaged graduate assistants, student interns, and student volunteers in projects that foster dialog around critical and timely issues in environment, technology, and health. She is committed to empowering people's self-expression and to the transfer of wisdom and goodness from one generation to the next. Henry G. Brzycki, PhD, has more than thirty years of experience providing leadership to the fields of education and psychology. Dr. Brzycki challenges scholars and practitioners to expand their boundaries of understanding in order to impact the quality of people's lives. Dr. Brzycki founded The Brzycki Group, where his innovative counseling and psycho-educational programs pioneered positive psychology and strengths-based counseling methods. Dr. Brzycki consults to schools, colleges, foundations, and policy makers on how to realize the potential of people. Most recently, he co-founded The Center for the Self in Schools. The Center's nonprofit mission is to impact the psychological, socioemotional, and physical well-being of K-16 students through outreach programs, professional development, self-knowledge curricula, student affairs psychological and career counseling, and student success high-impact practices.