Night Against Procrastination: Supporting the skill and the will of exam preparation

Procrastination behaviours are close to ubiquitous amongst university students. This paper reports on a University wide initiative that sought to support students positively to proactively deal with procrastination during exam preparation. The initiative, ‘Night Against Procrastination’, was the first of its kind conducted in Australian Higher Education and involved collaboration across the Library, Language and Learning Educators, Career Educators, STEM Educators, and the Student Guild. The learnings presented here provide an insight into how higher education providers in Australia might adopt or adapt similar initiatives to facilitate a sense of belonging and connectedness and provide holistic, intentional, and timely support for students at a critical time in the semester