“What will YOU say to your professor today?”
Insider tips to confidently (not cluelessly!) communicate for college success.
“I am failing. Is it too late to get an Incomplete? Should I retake the course?”
(Aaaaaaand… student write-in questions are back! With many terms winding down, I am receiving letters that include various levels of frustration and failure. You’ll see themes of them over the next several posts. Hopefully, the...
Why Saying ‘Thank You’ Now Can Lead to Career Success
(It is the end of teacher appreciation week! Next week, I’m returning with student write-in’s, but sticking with the theme of career success this week. Do you feel like the art of ‘thank you’ is leaving us, along with...
How to Talk About Specific Soft Skills from Your Classes
(Following up on a piece I wrote for YouTern a couple months ago called Close the Skills Gap: View College as Soft Skills Experience. In that piece, I discussed all the ways soft skills happen in college, but many students don’t realize...
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In Say This, NOT That to Your Professor: 36 Talking Tips for College Success, an award-winning, tenured communication professor takes you “inside the faculty mind...
A tenured professor of Communication Studies helps students correctly--not cluelessly--speak/deal with those who teach them.