Issues For College And Reaching Graduation
For nearly 15 years I’ve worked with students to understand exactly why they can be bright yet still fail in college. So many of the reasons why students have problems are still just guessed at, and even Professors and Administrators have no idea. In fact, students themselves can often have little insight in to exactly …
I’ve been very busy since the last update, not only with students, but with colleges as well. I have two collaborations that have been ongoing with schools, and have been deeply ingrained in other projects as well. For this term, I’m happy to say that I have a handful of students who are Seniors, and …
An interesting article, if not an ominous one, appeared in Psychology Today that discussed the troubling lack of resilience in modern college students. They defined this lack of “resilience” as an inability to deal with the problems of everyday life, including having emotional crises over simple things like roommate conflicts or getting a “B” grade. …
It’s been a busy start to the fall school year, but I wanted to take the time to post an update on my work and the college help program that I run. This year I have collaborations underway with different colleges and departments, and will be incorporating this in to my regular work with students …
I’ve heard from literally hundreds of parents and students, and over the years I’ve received repeats of similar questions or heard about nearly identical scenarios. I decided to begin a series of articles that melds these similar situations in to a composite “common scenario” so I could give my thoughts on them. This puts these …
In the last few years I had between writing a book and setting up the learning section of my website, so I didn’t have much time to write articles let alone add to the “true stories” series I want develop further. I literally have dozens of true stories I can write, and these are meant …