This vignette highlights the challenges of a student nearing graduation without a clear direction for securing a job and beginning a career.
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Student Struggles to Balance Family and College Expectations
This vignette highlights the experiences of a student who is attempting to balance family priorities with college expectations.
Overwhelmed Senior Navigates External Pressures
This vignette highlights how institutions focus resources on first- and second-year students, often leaving fourth-year students to figure out how to navigate important decisions on their own.
Student Parent Navigates Child Care & Academic Demands
This vignette highlights the challenges for individuals who are trying to meet the demands of parenting while being a college student.
Upper Division Student Doubts Major Choice After Struggling to Find an Internship
This vignette highlights the stress that students may experience if they struggle to secure an internship or other professional preparation opportunities that may help them secure employment.
First-Generation College Student Balances Family Crises and Coursework
This vignette highlights how a student who has experienced academic success may need additional support when an unexpected personal, financial or familial crisis emerges.
Student with a Learning Disability Needs Assistance
This vignette highlights the challenges facing students with undiagnosed learning disabilities and
provides considerations for getting them assistance.
Disconnected Upper-Level Student Wants Advice
This vignette highlights the challenges of students in upper-level coursework who feel disconnected.
Improving communications to at-promise students: A validating approach-activity.
This activity brief provides an approach for helping institutions and programs rethink how to communicate essential information and engage students meaningfully. The activities are intended to stimulate educators to think about how they communicate with at-promise students.
How the game is played: Low-income students’ experiences with career development programming.
This article examines how low-income students experienced career development programming in a college transition program, showing that many valued learning practical skills like résumé writing, interviewing, and networking in a supportive environment. The article suggests moving away from narrow ideas of professionalism and creating supports that are flexible and responsive to students’ backgrounds and prior experiences