Allow me to be perfectly frank: I hate networking. When I say “networking,” I am referring to the practice of meeting as many people as you can within your given profession with the hopes that someday, one of these connections will turn into a lucrative job opportunity. Now, I am not against meeting new people. […]

I’ve often thought of advising as presenting our students with all the information and empowering them to make the best choice.  In some cases our interactions with students may be reactionary, they’re coming to us with a problem in need of a solution or opinion.  Other times, we are able to encourage them to think […]

For the last few years, I have been volunteering as an Employment Coach for the San Jose State University Job/Internship fairs.  It’s almost spring, and it’s that time again!  I truly enjoy the opportunity to meet friendly and professionally dressed students and grads, take a few minutes to review their resumes, answer their questions and […]

I spent a lot of time yesterday afternoon with a completely new student—nearly two hours, doing everything I could to get to know him. His mother hired me because she feels completely left in the dark: she’s from another country and never went to college. Her son—we’ll call him Teddy—is scraping by with mostly Cs […]

There’s a lot of research out there about a lot of things and sometimes it’s hard to figure it out what it all means. From measuring student achievement to comparing access to higher education between student groups and everything in between, there is a lot of data and research available that is not always easy […]

And now, the end. We’ve been working our way through the college admissions process using the scientific method as our guide. We’ve touched on the question, observation, hypothesis, and experimentation. And now, the conclusion. The conclusion phase is where you take all the data you’ve gathered through observation and experimentation and measure it against your […]

WACAC Nation, As Terri and I rang in 2015 on New Year’s Eve, we said “Wow!  This is the year of the NACAC Conference!” It is a steady run from here to October 1-3, 2015 and the SD National Conference.  Of course there are still applications to be read, financial aid to package, final decisions […]

It is that time of year again and I don’t know about you, but Financial Aid makes me nervous. I have taken courses, attended workshops, read books and viewed tutorials, but in no way do I consider myself an expert when it comes to people’s money. I do, however feel a responsibility to provide the […]

Hello Nevada!! As we move into spring,  not only we will begin to hear birds chirp and see blossoms bloom,  but we will also hear politicians chirp and see them bloom in the news.   The Nevada Issues committee has a legislative visit scheduled for Wednesday March 25th.  If you are interested please contact me at […]

As I write this, I am awaiting the arrival of this year’s District Directions participants, the middle and high school counselors from the Vista Unified School District near San Diego. Of the many endeavors through which WACAC supports professionals who work with students in the transition to or between post-secondary institutions, this is the program […]