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What your new student may be experiencing during this first part of the semester
Swaying to the “Rhythm of the Freshman Year”
The rhythm of the freshman year. Your student will be acclimating to the ebb and flow of life on campus while your rhythm will change somewhat, too, Authors Karen Levin Coburn and Madge Lawrence Treeger highlight “the rhythm of the freshman year” in their book, Letting Go: A Parent’s Guide to Understanding the College Years (2003).[more]
Proactive steps for students
Reducing the Risk of Identity Theft
Chances are you’ve seen that commercial where the manly voice comes out of the young college student and the voice rattles on about all they’ve purchased or all they’ve done with money they found through using someone else’s credit card. This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to identity theft in today’s society. Identity thieves can virtually take over their victim’s life—renting apartments, leasing cars, racking up bills and forcing their victims into years of trying to rectify their credit.[more]
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Spreading the News
By Kim Alt
The Student Government Association has allocated funds to keep providing free newspapers to students on campus. Daily issues of USA Today and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch are readily available now in dispensers around campus. Students just wipe their ID card to get a free newspaper. The readership program helps to break the stereotypes that our younger generation does not read newspapers.[more]
Writing Improvement
By Fran Hooker, Writing Center Coordinator
Homepage blurb:
Does your student have a lot of papers to write this semester? Encourage them to take advantage of one of the Academic Resource Center’s most used resources: The Writing Center. Our trained coaches are available to help with every stage of the writing process, from brainstorming ideas, to organizing papers, to documenting sources.[more]
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