Student Success “Find Your Way” College Student Coaching 03/19/202403/19/2024 The Path to Discovering Your Strengths and Clarifying Your Career The Challenge Students today spend years preparing to get into the right college. Once they do, a wave of relief…
Higher Ed History… HEd History – Black Colleges and College Life in early 20th Century 03/13/202403/13/2024 At that time, "it was standard practice to exclude the black colleges from the national media, whether major newspapers or other publications about college life. For example, the anthologies of…
Student Success Improve Retention by Linking Scholarships to High Impact Practices 01/11/202401/11/2024 It was my first day at work at a university over 1,500 miles from my home. We were at a retreat in the Texas Hill Country and I was much…
Higher Ed History HEd History – Ranking Students by their Socio-Econonic Status 12/14/202301/06/2024 Did you know that in America's higher education history, colonial colleges listed students and had them dress in order of their socio-economic status. "Although the social composition of the collegiate…
Higher Ed History HEd History – Harvard, Yale, & Princeton Each Quite Different 12/14/202312/30/2023 Harvard too liberal for Yale which was too liberal for Princeton... Did you know that Yale was started because Harvard was considered too liberal? And then Princeton was started because…
Higher Ed History HEd History – The Harvard of the South – Transylvania University 12/13/202301/06/2024 Few people realize that Transylvania University was the greatest college of the South for many decades. John Thelin reminds us of this in his History of American Higher Education book. "Located in…