Jennifer DeBurro

Vice-president of student affairs and dean of students at the University of New England in Maine, where she oversees the campus counselling centred, housing and residential life, student resolutions and other student-centred units.

Articles by Jennifer DeBurro

Two swimmers sitting on a diving board above a swimming pool. To illustrate that intervening to to help students avoid struggle can deny them the opportunity to advocate for themselves.

Academics must stop trying to save struggling freshers

Well-meaning interventions to help students avoid struggle, emotional pain or failure have gone too far, says Jennifer DeBurro

By Jennifer DeBurro

1 October