Are you a student planning to attend college next year, but don’t know how you will pay for school? The first step in the college financial aid process is completion …
Student Advising Video Demonstrates What It Means to be Student-Centered
How does The Scholarship Foundation demonstrate that it is student-centered? Advising Director Teresa Steinkamp says it is about “putting students’ needs, goals, and hopes above everything else.” Immigrant Student Advisor …
Disband “Decision Day”
Last year the Words of Faith blog was launched and a May Day post denounced the arbitrary but growing trend of declaring it “Decision Day”. On “Decision Day”, high schools, …
BRAGGING RIGHTS: What we do works!
First, click on the image below and tell me what you see! Just in case charts and graphs and data aren’t your thing, let me summarize in words: Our students …
Food for Thought
It does not take much to imagine what it is like to try to study or sit in class if you are chronically hungry or malnourished. While some of us …
Discretion and Accountability
Sometimes, it’s the small stuff. When Paul Arenberg first approached me in 2010 about an Executive Director’s discretionary fund, I said a hasty “no thank you.” My public policy and …