What It's Like to Be the First Person in Your Family to Go to College

In “What It’s Like to Be the First Person in Your Family to Go to College,” a recent article published in The Atlantic, author Liz Riggs chronicles the story of Harry, a first generation college student at Vanderbilt University. During his first few...

Opportunity Knocks: Peer, Staff, and Faculty Mentoring

Click here to view the April Opportunity Knocks newsletter featuring Peer, Staff, and Faculty Mentoring opportunities at: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, The Together Everyone Achieves More (T.E.A.M.) Duke University, Durham, NC, 1G Network Georgia...

Coming Full Circle

In high school (and most high schools across the nation), the academic calendar is organized around the semester system, that is, two big blocks of instruction time that usually run sixteen weeks. Twelve years of this almost made me forget that winter existed; my...