True or False? If you get great grades in high school, you’ll succeed in college?
Nearly 25% of freshman at 4-year colleges drop out in the first year. A major problem is that many of today’s college students, even those who had high GPAs in high school, are not prepared with the personal management and life skills needed to succeed in college and graduate on time.
Are You Really Ready for College? - A College Dean’s 12 Secrets for Success - What High School Students Don’t Know is an eye opening guide to help prepare students with these crucial skills.
Robert Neuman PhD, is the author and a former Associate Dean for Student Academic Development at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The book is titled “Are You Really Ready for College?”. It helps guide High School Students and Parents on Key Self Management Skills for College Success.
As laid-off workers add to surging enrollments, the White House looks to two-year schools for an educational bailout…
Community colleges are deeply unsexy. This fact tends to make even the biggest advocates of these two-year schools - which educate nearly half of U.S. undergraduates - sound defensive, almost a tad whiny.
“We don’t have the bands. We don’t have the football teams that everybody wants to boost,” says Stephen Kinslow, president of Texas’ Austin Community College (ACC). “Most people don’t understand community colleges very well at all.” And by “most people,” he means the graduates of fancy four-year schools who get elected and set budget priorities [read the full article...]
As laid-off workers add to surging enrollments, the White House looks to two-year schools for an educational bailout…
