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After years of preparation and anticipation, many students arrive at college without any real knowledge of the ins and outs of college life. They've been focused on finding the right school and have been carefully guided through the nuances of the admissions process, but too often they have little knowledge about how college will be different from high school or what will be expected of them during that crucial first year and beyond. Written by an...
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You're advising students to help ensure their success-but who's going to advise you?
With university budgets shrinking, graduate advisors find their workloads increasing. A professor emeritus of educational psychology at McGill University with more than forty years of advising experience and several teaching awards, Bruce M. Shore provides a practical guide here that demystifies the advisor-student relationship and helps both parties thrive. Emphasizing...
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students... . We must understand and circumvent this dangerous discouragement. No one can predict where the future leaders of science will come from.
Carl SaganIn 2012, the White House put out a call to increase the number of STEM graduates by one million. Since then, hundreds of thousands of science students have...