I tend to identify personal academic heroes that I use for inspiration. They’re scholars that I find to be particularly passionate, knowledgeable, accomplished or unusual. When I’m thirty pages into some dry reading, or staring at blank screen trying to figure out how to start a paper, I invoke their robust examples as a reminder of the value of persistence…
Author: Jeff Schenck
Managing Your Student Account At Semester’s End
Can you believe that there are only three weeks remaining in the Fall semester? Yes, the end is near. Papers, projects and finals (Oh my!). Deadlines loom, darkening the once bright and cheerful spaces of our phone calendars (I actually still use a paper calendar). I suspect that each of us copes with this trying time of the semester in her…
What is a Solution Center anyway?
Be forewarned, it’s risky to phone the Student Solution Center and open with the joke, “I need a solution!” We’ve heard that one before, a few times, and it might not get the laugh you’re hoping for. On the other hand, maybe the idea that we’re the random solution source is pretty much on target. At the Solution Center, we…