Sending your kid off to college is a veritable cocktail shaker of emotions. Excitement and pride mix with sadness and worry to make for some messy parents. Keeping it all together matters– not just to avoid family pictures with mascara streaming down your cheeks but also because your student is probably feeling some of the same things and looking to…
I had the tremendous good fortune to speak with Louis E. Newman, the author of Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success. Louis is the former dean of academic advising at Stanford and a former professor at Carleton College, so he has decades of experience in helping students succeed in college– not just in the classroom. Louis…
If you’re like most normal people, talking about money with your kids ranks up there on the awkward scale with talking with them about sex. That doesn’t mean you get to skip it, though. When it comes to college, the long-term repercussions of a bad financial decision are far too big to overlook. So, how do you have a productive…
According to Sallie Mae’s How America Pays For College, about 2/3 of families who borrowed to pay for college planned to do so. That means that 1/3 of borrowers did not intend to borrow, but something happened that changed that plan– perhaps college cost more than they thought, or their aid package changed, or their ability to pay changed. Chances…
With college costs going through the roof, it’s natural to wonder if college is actually worth it. The answer, according to several recent reports, is YES. In its recently released Rising Above the Threshold report, the Institute for Higher Education Policy found that a college degree provides value for about 93% of students, with public colleges reporting even higher rates:…