The Impact of Developing Student Metacognitive Skills Join us for the session that works best for you!   Join us for an exclusive, paid virtual focus group on the impact of developing student metacognitive skills. We would love to hear your feedback on our suite of College Success assessment resources, which:   🔎  provides insights into non-cognitive factors that can significantly impact student retention like academic adjustment, educational goals, social connections, and residence life experiences 📢  empowers student advocates to collaboratively identify issues and opportunities for interventions and interactions that broadly facilitate student success 🧵 can be customized to include optional modules like academic major, external commitments, campus activities, student athletes, and transfer students   Register Now   This College Success Developing Student Metacognition Focus Group is open to College Success instructors. The instructors who participate in the College Success Developing Student Metacognition Focus Group and submit the post-event survey will receive a $50 gift card*. *There is a limit of 30 participants. The registration for the focus group will remain open until the earlier of 4/30/23 or the date on which we have accepted 30 participants. The focus group is open only to instructors teaching courses on College Success at a higher education institution within any of the 50 United States or Washington, D.C. or Canada (excluding Quebec). Each participant will complete a Review Form and may be required to provide an IRS form W-9 or W-8BEN as a condition of gift card delivery. Each participant represents that the ethics rules and policies of their school do not prohibit participation in the focus group or receipt of the gift card. ... View more

I graduated from college in spring of 2021, but the last time I discussed finances in a school setting was in the seventh grade. It was Family and Consumer Science class, and I learned how to write a check and sew a pillow. Though, the check memory is fuzzy, and the pillow is long gone.  Now, I wonder how my financial skills might be different had topics like those in “Planning Your Future” been discussed in my college classes. Topics like budgeting, credit cards, and other financial skills were certainly never covered in any of my classes, let alone ones like Computer Science (though the closest I came to this discipline was mathematics).  I never talked with a trusted adult like a professor or classmates outside of my close friends about these kinds of topics. I now realize the limited scope of these kinds of conversations with those already in my circle of friends and family. I wonder what it would have been like to have those conversations with people I wouldn’t have otherwise--what would have happened if I talked about budgeting with my Linear Algebra class, discussed credit cards at the beginning of an Abstract Algebra lecture, or learned about financial health during partner work in Differential Equations?  My recently graduated friends often joke that college never taught them how to be an “adult.” This is a hard concept to pin down, but maybe including a chapter like “Planning Your Future” in all kinds of classes could have helped.  For now, I can only wonder, and take these tips and lessons for myself.  ... View more