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A Parent’s Perspective on Autism and College
I am a college educator with a daughter who has autism. One day, when my child was in first grade, I made the offhand comment after a school meeting that I would have so much free time if I didn’t have to attend constant meetings about services and therapy. A...
College / High School
What Students and Parents Need to Know about Plagiarism
The word plagiarism just sounds bad, doesn’t it? Like a skin disease or an ancient legal tactic used by the merchant class during the Middle Ages. For high school and college students, the word seems to conjure fear more than anything else. Plagiarism is often...
College / High School
Money, Money Money: Financial Adjustments in the First Year of College
The financial adjustment from high school to college is complicated and intimidating. In my family, as my older daughter completes her senior year of high school right now, that area of adjustment to college is already beginning. Here are some key areas of the...
College / High School
Study Smarter, Not Harder: High School to College Study Tips
What college freshmen tell me: “I didn’t have to study in high school because I could listen in class and do well on tests.” Yes, it is true. There are many students who get to college knowing that they rarely had to study to make A’s and...
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What Your Student Wants You to Know When They Fail
A semester doesn’t go by without my having to talk a student through a failure. As a professor and a department chair, I have counseled all kinds of students with all kinds of issues: a failed test or two that has jeopardized their overall grade, a plagiarized...Latest Posts
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