<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2021/helena-cole.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>03/19/2021</pubDate><title>Student Success and Advising Expert Reflects on Life Lessons and the Importance of Family</title><description>Meet Helena Cole, director of the University’s Center for Academic Success and Advising and its Center for Student Success, who is pursuing her doctorate and who has been reconnecting with her family virtually during the coronavirus global pandemic.</description><hide-description/><author>Renee Chmiel, Office of Marketing and Communications</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>March 19, 2021</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/news/non-college-specific/blog/2021/helena-cole-photo-1.png" alt="My mother, father…"/></image><image-caption>Helena Cole (left) on vacation with her parents and her son in 2019.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2021</tag></tags></item>