In my last blog, I wrote about what students say about the first year of college based on the themes that I have discovered in their written responses over my past four years at a university. These themes–seven in total–have come from careful reading of...
Recently, I was invited to present at a conference for academic administrators and was told that I could speak on anything that related to my work with first-year students. I realized that over the past 20 years, I have had a unique opportunity to listen to what...
It is the end of another school year and your student’s next academic steps are most likely far from their minds. Instead, they are thinking about sleeping in, starting a summer job, or just enjoying the lack of a schedule for now. I am sure that developing...
It feels like we just moved them in only a few weeks ago, right? And now, we have a few weeks before they move all of that stuff back into the room that you may–or may not–have rearranged into a yoga studio. But have you had a conversation yet about what...
It’s about that time: Summer job time, that is. In just a few weeks, high school and college students will be looking for and filling short-term jobs that can help them earn some money before classes start again in the fall. From lifeguard to office assistant,...
Parents of children with a disability, particularly autism, have a daunting task when it comes time to send them off to college. Every student who goes to college has to navigate a major life transition, but this is even more true for a students with autism. Legally,...