Articles: Student Services

5/1/2009
 

IT IS A WELL-KNOWN FACT: Tutoring helps students perform better. The trick is getting them to use it.

3/1/2009

The downward slope of a stock market graph is an image that parallels how quickly traditional college dynamics can submerge and alter a familiar status quo. Tradition is rooted deep in higher education, but these economic times call for emerging change.

10/1/2008
 

Two years ago, in writing about career planning for college students in “The [Next] Real World” (University Business, April and August 2006), we advised colleges to bring administrators, faculty, and students together to focus on f

10/1/2008
 

Yale University’s Sharon Kugler just hired a coordinator for Muslim life. Another of her program coordinators recently searched out a kosher-Chinese food restaurant in surrounding New Haven.

9/1/2008
 

DO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING campus disputes sound familiar to you?

--An academic department chair is struggling with warring factions among the faculty who do not get along and are engaged in petty in fighting.

7/1/2008
 

MEET THE MILLENNIAL STUDENT. SHE is busy, goal oriented, and perhaps stressed. She might be depressed too.

4/1/2008

Long lines, frustrated students, and tired staff-those are the stuff that campus bursar's offices are made of. Or are they?

"On the first day of classes, it would be like standing in Penn Station in rush hour," says Dan Maguffin, bursar at the Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (N.Y.), of the scene that he used to see outside his office. Four years after his arrival, things have certainly quieted down. "Now when you walk through, you would think it's a Sunday morning."

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