One of the many skills our students must develop is to be good at waiting. This characteristic is required of them by a higher education system designed to serve a …
All the Ways that Money Matters: How Colleges Perpetuate Inequity
Scholarship Foundation Student Advisors assist 6,000 students and family members navigating admissions and financial aid each year. Sometimes I state the obvious. Money (or the absence of it) affects students …
Welcome to Kafkaesque Flagship University
Photo by Lilly Stephen Recently, our staff worked with a student who had graduated from a north county high school in 2017 with a 4.0 GPA. First in her family …
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, …
Food for Thought: Why Hunger Haunts So Many College Students
On April 3, the Washington Post published the recent release of data documenting hunger and other basic needs unmet among college students. The piece cited several surveys, but focused on …
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 …
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