Category: Academic Advising
Spring Break 2019 …Fun, Fun, Fun?
How many times have you heard that voice in the back of your head say, “I can’t wait...
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Your Learning Style and Academic Success
Have you ever given any thought about your learning style i.e. the best way for you to acquire and retain new information? Knowing how you learn really influences your performance as a learner, whether in school or the workplace.
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Preparing for Next Semester…
Enjoying your semester break and, at the same time, preparing for next semester? Hopefully, you are. Now is the time to take a deep breath and assess your academic life/work balance experiences. You need to think about whether or not you are using the best tactics to accomplish your goals.
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The Final Exam Season…Again
Final exam season…let’s not be under any illusions. This time of year is the mega pimple of stress! Studying for finals is just plain nerve-racking and overwhelming. Heaven help us if we are carrying 5 courses with a final exam in each one…on top of several research papers.
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Graduation Bound… Your Degree Audit
Keeping Track of My Academic ProgressWhat is a degree audit? Remember the good old days in high school, when every term you would get a report card? Well, that report card has now changed into a degree audit, a collegiate souped-up version of a high school report card.
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Harvard’s Not Your Only Option…Your College Application!
It’s college application season. Anxiety is building. You want to go to the best college and/or university.”Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton, and Stanford are “dream” schools I’ll never be able to afford,”… so you think.
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Degree Audit aka My College Report Card
The “invaluable degree audit”, known by different names at different campuses, tracks your complete academic progress/record. The Registrar’s Office is the official keeper of the student’s academic record and all associated academic policies.
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The Gold Standard for Academic Success – Information Literacy
When you think of information, probably the first thing that comes to mind is Google and/or Wikipedia. However, did you know that it’s estimated that Google actually accesses less than 4% of all the information now available on the Internet today?
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The Course Withdrawal Option
Generally speaking, the Course Withdrawal option allows students having either academic and/or personal difficulties to withdraw from a course(s) and/or school completely, receiving a “W” grade for each course(s). Beware…
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Pass/Fail – “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”…
Most new students, and even some currently enrolled, don’t realize that they do have grading options such as Pass/Fail to use in crafting the ultimate outcome of their semester grade point average (GPA).
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You’re A College Student…Now What?
College students adjusting to college life can be a challenging, transformative experience…some do it quickly, some take a little longer.
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Academic Adviser – Optional or Essential?
Your Academic Adviser…optional or essential? An asset on your college and career success team or a potential liability? Unlike high school, where you can wait forever to see your guidance counselor, a campus academic adviser is an active, key member of your college and career success team.
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Higher Ed Lingo Guide
Sometimes a translator would help when facing an academic challenge!
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