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How to Help Your Student Build Agency in Academic Tasks

Agency can be conceptualized as using one’s motivation and ability to influence an outcome. It is exerted when a student 1) recognizes a problem or opportunity, 2) identifies within their…

Jennifer Tharp, Ph.D.August 7, 2023

Parenting Senior Student Student Life

5 Tips for Helping First-Year Students Make Connections

If they are like every other student who arrived on campus, there will be some bumps along the way as they embark on this new journey. In today’s connected and…

Gregory Bish, Ph.D.July 28, 2023

Parenting Senior Student Student Life

Investigation Process

Although you and your student’s campus administrators do everything possible to prevent them from encountering sexual assault on campus, the process and people involved in an investigation may be helpful…

Neil Best, Ph.D.July 27, 2023

Academic Success Junior Student Senior Student

First in Our Family: Insights for First Generation Student Success

FG parents and family members are one of our most valuable and important resources for their student’s success. Previous assumptions questioned if FG parents could provide guidance and support for…

Michelle Samuels-Jones, Ed.D.July 16, 2023

Academic Success Junior Student Senior Student

The Academic Success Landscape: What to Expect

Rather than turning to a guidance counselor for most, or all, of their class-adjacent questions, your student will soon enter a more complex context. It’s important that both you and…

Jennifer Tharp, Ph.D.July 3, 2023

Academic Success Junior Student Senior Student

Student Involvement Matters

This generation of college students has more significant distractions with their smartphones and social media interactions. As parents, you may have noticed that the technological gadgets hook individuals for long…

Oscar Espinoza-Parra, Ph.D.July 10, 2022

Academic Success

3 Tips to Give Your Student During Finals Week

The stress of needing to perform compounds with the truncated sequence of multiple exams. Yet when I speak with students experiencing stress as an academic coach, they often see stress…

Jennifer Tharp, Ph.D.May 8, 2022

Academic Success Parenting

Academic Slumps Happen: How to Help Your Student

Soon enough, your student may know what it’s like to feel motivated by their vision for a future career, and then somehow to feel unmotivated in classes, despite working hard…

Jennifer Tharp, Ph.D.January 22, 2022

Parenting Senior Student

Embarking on a New Year as College Nears

Here are some steps you can take to make the most out of this special point in time: 1. Examine, embrace and celebrate where you are There’s no doubt that…

Patricia A. Roberts, J.D.January 10, 2022

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Academic Success Covid

How to Succeed in the Online Learning Environment

Faculty have refined pedagogical best practices for online teaching and learning. Staff and administrators have expanded in-person student services and activities to the virtual space, offering an array of online…

Danny Ambrose, Ed.D.January 8, 2022

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