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Avoiding the Expense of Academic Delays

10 tips to help keep your child on track during their educational journey: Identify existing credits. When applying to college or entering the first semester, determine whether credits previously earned…

Patricia A. Roberts, J.D.May 4, 2025

Academic Success

Why It Still Pays to Graduate

Just remember: it's not what they say; it's what they do. Despite announcements from big-name companies that they are dropping the bachelor's degree requirements, their hiring practices have not changed.…

David Q. Hao, MA, JDFebruary 12, 2025

Academic Success

Topics to Discuss with Your Academic Department

Or, maybe they are still deciding where to pursue their degree. Either way, a good next step is to meet with someone from the academic department of the major they…

Jason Castles, Ed.D.January 1, 2025

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Academic Success

In the AI Era We’ll All Work for the “Expert Generalist.”

They’re not just the AI experts nor the coders who can spin out algorithms like a Las Vegas dealer handing out cards. They are the “Expert Generalists”—those who can quickly…

David Q. Hao, MA, JDNovember 1, 2024

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 Senior Student

Majors, Minors, and Careers… Oh My!

As students begin navigating both known and unknown academic majors and minors, while continuing to picture their future career(s)—and how to get there—it will be important they seize opportunities that…

Michelle Samuels-Jones, Ed.D.August 22, 2023

Academic Success Junior Student Senior Student

How to Pick a Major

If your kid is not really sure yet what she wants to be when she grows up--don’t worry. She’s in great company. Most people change not only majors, but entire…

Laura Reisert Kalinkewicz, Ph.D.August 22, 2023

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

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

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