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Kristen A. Renn

CONCLUSION
This study resulted in a description of how
peer residential staff understood student
success, their role in enacting it, and factors
that inhibited or promoted their ability to do so.
The depth and diversity of their definitions of
student success is itself an important finding,
and the number of ways they see themselves
enacting their role in promoting student
success is encouraging. At a time when it has
never been more important to articulate definitions of student success and the role of peer
residential staff in contributing to it, the study
provides evidence in support of continuing to
involve residential staff in this work.

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