Thousands of college students across the country are beginning their first year of college. The encouragement we are giving them may not be as helpful as we think. In fact, our well-meaning ...

I largely blame social media for making me feel lonely during my college years. All my friendships felt impersonal because we ...

On New Year’s Eve, I was walking around Charleston, South Carolina with my family when my eldest son – who’s all too aware of my proclivity for touring college campuses – offered a detour to the ...

Six out of 10 parents hope their child will attend college, according to a new survey by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation. The survey, conducted in June, comes out at a time when the value of a ...

Before coming to college, I did not have a relationship with God, nor did I consider myself a person of faith. High school is when I began to contemplate God, wondering how the universe came from ...

Since the pandemic upended students’ educational paths, more and more young people have opened their minds up to taking a gap year between high school and college. Taking time off felt natural for ...

The start of the academic year is often a peak time for many student counseling centers. Not surprisingly, many first-year/incoming students seek counseling due to anxiety about moving away from home ...