Parents can play a quiet but powerful role in how their students benefit from university academic advising. With the proper approach, you can help your student make the most of academic advising as a strategic career development tool. Why Advising Matters I’ve addressed the importance of academic advising and how students should approach their advising […]
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Congrats! Your student is heading to college as a pre-med student. Hooray! But what does it really mean to be pre-med, or pre-anything? Not a Major For the most part, a student who is pre-med or pre-law isn’t talking about their academic major. Few believe they are actually entering a pre-med major. Then, why call
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One way to help your student stay on track to graduate on time is by monitoring their degree audit. And the best time to start doing that is on day one, not when they’re college seniors. What is a Degree Audit? Degree audits are tools available for college students to help them see both what’s
June is the time for spring orientation at colleges and universities. That’s when incoming students visit their new campuses, take placement tests, participate in academic advising and perhaps register for classes. And at most colleges, parents don’t attend academic advising or registration sessions with their students. While this might cause you some anxiety, never fear.
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I have a number of pet peeves. One of them is about how students approach academic advising. Just as students have to be active in the classroom in college—more so than in high school—the same applies to academic advising. Taking Control Ask any academic advisor. Their worst nightmare as an advisor is a student who
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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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