Jennifer Tharp, Ph.D., Author at College Countdown

Academic Success Parenting Senior Student

7 Tips for Parents of First-Generation Students from a Student Success Coach

Rather there are myriad ways students can make the most of undergraduate study based on their majors, living situations, strengths, prior experiences, use of resources, and campus involvement. Each of…

Jennifer Tharp, Ph.D.August 16, 2024

Academic Success Junior Student Parenting Senior Student

How to Strengthen Your Student’s Growth Mindset

In the academic setting, habits of thinking influence the ways students begin, manage, and explain the results of tasks, like projects and papers. Their mindsets—attributional beliefs about their abilities as…

Jennifer Tharp, Ph.D.August 19, 2023

Using the Envelope System to Manage Time

Academic Success Parenting Senior Student

Teach Your Student to Use the Envelope System to Manage Time

How? Students today need a malleable strategy for managing time and real-time thought solutions for when things don’t go as planned. This is why I teach students the envelope system…

Jennifer Tharp, Ph.D.August 12, 2023

Academic Success Junior Student Parenting

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

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

Student Life

Part-Time Work in College: Five Tips to Consider

Parents and students alike can vary in their preferences around part-time employment, but these preferences can sometimes be accompanied by a belief that working will be detrimental to a student’s…

Jennifer Tharp, Ph.D.April 2, 2023

Parenting

Three Ways to Support Your Student’s Change of Major

Amidst pervasive life change and the undertaking of new challenges, it is not uncommon for students to consider a shift in their career pathways and the training necessary to get…

Jennifer Tharp, Ph.D.March 20, 2023

Junior Student Senior Student Student Life

3 Steps to Manage Stress

When I meet with students for academic coaching, they often tell me about areas of life where they are attempting to achieve in new environments. Students experience stress because they’re…

Jennifer Tharp, Ph.D.January 2, 2023

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

One Thing I Wish I’d Done Each Semester

One of the reasons my career in higher education veered toward Student Success is the opportunity I see in the research on college student success, and in my experience coaching…

Jennifer Tharp, Ph.D.February 23, 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

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