Every college or university offers a wide variety of services for students. And a significant number of people who work in higher education are there for a single purpose: to help your student succeed. Yet too often, those people are in their offices ready to assist students with no one waiting to see them. This […]
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There are many ways people pay for their student to attend college. The first course is personal funds from the student and their family. Many of us also make use of federal financial aid sources, such as Pell Grants, both unsubsidized and subsidized student loans and student employment. For most people, paying all of our
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By now, your student may have registered for classes for the following term. And I’m sure you may have been asking questions of them like: Have you started your major yet? When will you finish all your general requirements? Are you taking courses in any other area besides your major? These are only a few
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When I worked at a university in New Jersey we tried to improve our student service experience by developing what we called “decision trees,” essentially a software program that would allow us to ask students a short series of questions so we could refer them to services easily and quickly. We developed these decision trees
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It is time to apply for financial aid at American colleges and universities, and one of the first things we have to do is to un-learn several myths about the process regarding who is or isn’t eligible for aid. And I can think of no one better to lead this process than Michelle Singletary, author
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We all know about contracts, right? We sign them for car loans, insurance policies, applying for a credit card or getting reimbursed by our employers. And some contracts go into force even without a signature, such as when you download software (do you really read all those terms and conditions?) For the next four years,
Call it a badge of courage, rite of passage or simply a cool thing to have in a wallet. The college ID card is actually more than that. Now way back in the day, the ID card might have your picture on it or not, and the only purpose of having one was to see
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It’s not a surprise that communication with new college students tends to drop off after you drop them off. After all, they’re excited about meeting their new friends and learning about how their college or university works. To be honest, that’s what they should do. On the other hand, parents are often dying for information
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Nine times out of ten, parents, especially those who didn’t have the chance to attend college look at their daughter’s first semester schedule and ask: why is she taking so many courses that aren’t in her major? It’s a normal question, After all, if your son wants to study business and in the first semester
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Sooner or later, all students are faced with a class that gets cancelled or rescheduled so they can’t take it when they want to. What often happens in these scenarios is the student calls home frustrated telling you that one of his or her courses has been cancelled or rescheduled and it’s going to prevent
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