Author: Staff Writer

“I felt like I was reading a code I wasn’t supposed to understand,” a student named Leo once told me during an advising session. He was looking at his degree…

According to research from the National Center for Education Statistics, over 19 million students enroll in American colleges each year, yet a significant portion of them struggle to understand the…

Why did the employee get fired from the calendar factory? He took a couple of days off. While that might get a quick laugh in a breakroom, the reality of…

The first time I sat in a high-level university planning meeting, I felt a familiar knot of anxiety in my stomach. I was surrounded by brilliant people using words like…

Standing in front of a massive course catalog for the first time can feel like trying to read a map written in a secret code. You know you want to…

Have you ever wondered what your daily life will look like five years after you walk across the graduation stage and land your first professional role? For many of the…

You are likely being invited to dozens of webinars by colleges right now, and if you are like most students, you are hitting delete because you think they are just…

According to a 2022 survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, only about 47 percent of U.S. adults could correctly name all three branches of government. This statistic highlights a…

Imagine walking into a large university library. You see rows of books, but you also see shelves filled with thin, soft-cover booklets called journals. On a professor’s website, you might…

I remember sitting in my high school library, the smell of old paper and floor wax filling the air. I had just found a book that challenged everything my history…