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Fostering Neurodivergent Student Success: A Participatory Action Research Approach to Inclusive Library Instruction
No full textNeurodivergent students represent 20–30% of college populations, yet many face barriers to academic success, including inaccessible instruction, lack of tailored support, and stigma. Academic libraries, as key sites of student learning and belonging, have the potential to reduce these barriers and foster more equitable outcomes. This poster presents Fostering Neurodivergent Student Success: Using a Participatory Action Research (PAR) Approach to Engage Students in the Development of More Inclusive, Accessible, and Engaging Library Instruction and Services, a grant-funded participatory action research project at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. This research approach engages neurodivergent students as co-researchers and co-designers in shaping research design, identifying instructional design and learning environment challenges, and proposing solutions to enhance the library’s teaching and support practices. This student-centered approach foregrounds lived experience to better understand how academic libraries can foster belonging, persistence, and achievement among neurodivergent learners. The project aims to provide professional development training sessions for librarians and campus faculty and staff to share best practices for working with neurodivergent students. The poster will highlight the PAR process, findings, and recommendations for designing inclusive, accessible and engaging educational environments that affirm diverse cognitive and learning styles
Student Success and Well-Being: Library Resources for the Whole Student
No full textThis poster will outline the rationale and methods for developing and maximizing library collections designed to foster student success. While academic library collections generally support the academic curriculum, students’ needs extend far beyond coursework. At Northern Illinois University, the Student Success and Well-being Collection was created to foster positive emotions, promote self-care, and enhance academic achievement. Alongside practical titles on topics such as time management, the collection also features identity-based works that strengthen belonging for diverse student groups. Usage data shows that the collection circulates at significantly higher rates than the general collection, demonstrating its relevancy and potential impact. The poster will share strategies for developing and sustaining such a collection, including collaborating with students and cultural centers, marketing effectively, integrating materials into curricular and co-curricular programs, and assessing impact. Librarians, faculty, and student support staff will gain a model for leveraging collections to advance student success and well-being
Navigating Risk Factor Disclosures: A New, Outlier Ninth Circuit Approach Remains After the Supreme Court Declines to Resolve a Circuit Split in \u3ci\u3eIn re Facebook Securities Litigation\u3c/i\u3e
No full textThis Casenote examines the implications of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Amalgamated Bank to dismiss Facebook’s writ of certiorari as improvidently granted, thereby allowing the shareholders’ securities fraud class action lawsuit to proceed in the lower courts. Specifically, it focuses on whether Facebook shareholders adequately alleged securities fraud under Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 as to challenged risk factor disclosures in Facebook’s 2016 Form 10-K under the PSLRA’s heightened pleading standard. Part II of this Casenote provides background on the Cambridge Analytica data breach, which Facebook allegedly failed to disclose in its 2016 Form 10-K risk factor disclosures. Part III discusses In re Facebook, the Ninth Circuit precedent left untouched after the Supreme Court dismissed Facebook’s writ of certiorari, and covers the relevant law, facts, and procedural history, and the Ninth Circuit’s majority and dissenting opinions. Part IV reviews the Ninth Circuit’s reasoning for its decision in In re Facebook. Part V outlines the current circuit split on risk factor disclosures. Finally, Part VI provides guidance for public companies navigating risk factor disclosures in the Ninth Circuit post-In re Facebook
A Makerspace for Grieving Students: An Exploration of Memory and Making for Bereaved Students at the University of Georgia
No full textWith origins in grief counseling, conversations regarding continuing bonds have supported and encouraged a connection between the living and the dead as a means for processing loss. Some bereaved individuals turn to physical mediums, such as archiving the belongings of the deceased or creating original artwork, to remain connected to their loved ones and find peace in their wake. As student success librarians, we aim to view students holistically, acknowledging aspects of their identities that lay beyond the scope of their academic endeavors, including aspects pertaining to grief and loneliness. In order to help students develop and succeed at university, we must greet the difficult circumstances being faced beyond the classroom as a segment of the student body is traversing campus while mourning the loss of a parent, grandparent, sibling, or friend. Through makerspace programming, this project explores the relationship between continuing bonds and creation by providing supplies and training for students to develop personal keepsakes, including buttons, magnets, and laser cut images and messages in memory of those they have lost. Implications for grief programming in makerspaces will be discussed alongside student feedback from the event
Motivating and Retaining Student Assistants: A Case Study
No full textThis paper offers specific recommendations for effectively motivating and retaining student employees at an academic library that practitioners may consider as they develop and implement programs for hiring, training, and retaining student assistants at their institutions. It describes a methodology that can be replicated for similar studies at other universities. This paper contributes new knowledge to the subject of academic library employee retention by reporting on the opinions of library student assistants at a small private liberal arts university in Southern California to gain insight into the kinds of retention program elements that students recommend. This study used an online survey to gather student feedback from student employees on the specific elements of our retention program that they see as critical to retaining them throughout their time on campus
On the Nation’s Doorstep: How the Ninth Circuit Ruled Against Metering and Redefined the Border for Asylum Seekers
No full textThis Note examines the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Al Otro Lado and its implications on evolving federal immigration policies. Part II analyzes the history of metering in the United States, including prior judicial treatment of the practice and its unlawfulness as determined by the district court’s prior holding. Part III summarizes the Ninth Circuit’s majority opinion in Al Otro Lado, while setting forth the case’s legal implications within the larger federal landscape, including the broadened scope of government obligation to asylum seekers. Part IV proposes next steps that could be taken by the legislature in response to practical constraints raised by the majority’s holding
Controlled Epidemics: Examining the Effect of Virus Density and Strain Competition in Gulf Fritillary (Dione vanillae)
No full textThis study examines how different virus strains compete within a single host population of Dione vanillae butterflies, which is important in the study of disease ecology research. For this study, we conducted controlled experimental epidemics on passionflower plants (Passiflora caerulea) in the field. First, we infected caterpillars with one of two different virus strains from Butterfly Farms in North County (BFF004) and the City of San Diego (GRM060) and placed these caterpillars on P. caerulea plants in one of three treatments (control, BFF004, and GRM060; n=3 plants per treatment). Next, we allowed healthy butterflies in the local population to lay eggs on these plants and begin our healthy larvae populations on the experimental plants. Lastly, we observed the numbers of healthy and infected larvae on each plant over time as the outbreaks progressed in order to compare between virus strains and virus densities. We examined whether virus outbreaks looked different for each virus strain to assess strain competition and if one of the viruses has a stronger effect on the host population
Only Americans Left Behind: Iran’s Illegal Use of Hostages as Political Pawns to Advance Their Foreign Policy
No full textThe Islamic Republic of Iran has emerged as one of the most prominent contemporary practitioners of hostage diplomacy—a strategy rooted in the 1979 Hostage Crisis and sustained through recurring detentions of foreign nationals on fabricated security charges. The government uses innocent foreign nationals as political pawns to coerce Western states, including the United States, to release frozen Iranian assets held abroad. This Comment situates Iran’s use of hostage diplomacy within its post-revolutionary foreign policy, examining how the collapse of the Pahlavi dynasty contributed to this tactic. Additionally, this Comment will analyze the current international legal frameworks governing hostage diplomacy and whether the enforcement mechanisms of such frameworks have proved effective
Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers: A Student Success Program Incorporating Multidisciplinary Library Research Projects and High Impact Practices
No full textIn response to a university-wide initiative to support undergraduate academic success, research preparation, and career readiness, Binghamton University Libraries launched the Library Research Scholars Pilot Program in Spring 2024, and completed its second cohort in Spring 2025. This semester-long program pairs undergraduates with faculty/staff mentors to engage in diverse library-centered, multidisciplinary research projects—making it the first library-based undergraduate research program at the university, and the only one grounded in library science.
Students receive structured mentorship in both foundational and advanced research methods, and participate in cohort meetings to share progress and explore broader research topics. Each student produces an academic poster and presents at a campus-wide undergraduate research “poster day,” and one hosted in the library. Students demonstrate success through completed deliverables such as academic posters, papers, and contributions to the institutional repository. A new partnership with the Career Center further expanded opportunities by offering a 4-credit internship option, which three students successfully completed.
The program coordinator and a faculty mentor will share insights on program design, student recruitment, mentorship, and final presentations. Attendees will learn how to create or adapt similar research mentorship initiatives within their own libraries to support undergraduate growth, research engagement, and career development
From Belonging to Leadership: Empowering Students through McMaster University Library’s Library Ambassador Program
No full textAt McMaster University Library, the Library Ambassador program places students at the center of engagement, belonging, and leadership development. Designed as a peer-to-peer initiative, the program hires and trains undergraduate students to represent the library, support outreach activities, and create welcoming experiences for their peers. More than just a job, the program builds confidence, cultivates transferable skills, and fosters a sense of belonging for Ambassadors.
Victoria Flores, a student leader instrumental to the program\u27s development and success, will share how the Library Ambassador program contributes to student success on multiple levels: it provides meaningful paid experiential learning, amplifies student voices in shaping library services, and creates ripple effects of peer-to-peer connection across campus. Attendees will learn how the program helps Ambassadors gain career readiness skills such as public speaking, teamwork, and event planning, while also building bridges between the library and diverse student communities.
By centering students as partners and leaders, the Library Ambassador program illustrates how libraries can move beyond transactional service delivery toward cultivating inclusive, student-driven ecosystems of support. Participants will leave with practical insights into designing programs that simultaneously strengthen belonging, persistence, and leadership development