Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Improving College Access

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by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. With all respect to everyone’s best intentions, I’ve never known any of those end-of-the-year assessment...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Community Colleges and a One-Course Certificate? Perfetta!

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by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. Community colleges seem to be under siege once again. Community college faculty are reporting renewed ef...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Free Summer Programs for High Schoolers That are Great

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by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. Students are wandering into your office, asking about summer programs that could fill what someone (like...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Transferring to High School? Remember the Five Cs

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by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. This is the time of year when counselor chat rooms are filled with posts like “Thinking about interviewi...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

A Schoolwide Conversation About College

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by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. I got involved in research as an undergraduate for the same noble reason all undergraduates do—I needed ...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Reforming College Admissions

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by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. It’s spring, and with most college decisions out, calls are blossoming for college application reform li...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

College Admissions, Juniors, and COVID

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by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. This will be the last high school class that will have the culture-changing year of 2020-21 as part of t...