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I often joke that, as my home airport is Detroit Metro and they’re a Delta hub, I’ve become accustomed to flying through their home base in Atlanta before I go anywhere else by air. (Specifically, my go-to joke is that, if I were flying to Cincinnati, Delta would first fly me through Atlanta.)

But I digress.

Because the fall edition of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA) conference was held in Atlanta this year, the city was actually my final destination by air when I hit the airport last week – sort of. Thanks to some awesome college visit scheduling for IECs attending the conference, I first flew to Asheville, North Carolina (via Atlanta, naturally) to meet up with 30 of my colleagues, board a bus, and begin Monday morning with a brisk and beautiful visit to the unique entity that is Warren Wilson College. Read More

"We’re right in the middle of college application season, and as a mom to 17-year-old twins, I feel like I’m drowning.

I know everything with kids is a phase, both good and bad. There was the six-weeks-of-colic phase when the boys were babies, the tantrum-throwing phase when they were toddlers, the taste-of-freedom phase when they were able to play for hours on end with LEGOs by themselves, etc. etc. etc.

So, I know this will pass — eventually." Read More

Horse rescues face an unceasing demand for their services. Whether animals arrive via owner surrender or through law enforcement confiscation, they often show up with physical or mental baggage that requires time and dedication to repair. There are never enough stalls to go around.

A new program at Colorado State University seeks to remove some of the burden from rescues while educating college students in the process. Read More

"At the recent IECA conference in Atlanta, I presented a session on grade inflation with admissions officers from Georgia Tech, Oglethorpe and Emory. We discussed the implications for admissions with so many applicants each year having steadily increasing GPAs. An A average is no longer a distinguishing factor for most applicants, and admissions officers have to work harder to discriminate between students, putting more weight on other achievement factors.

The rise in grades over time reflects a cultural change and a shift in our perception of what grades are supposed to measure. There was a time when Cs and Fs were not uncommon and As were relatively rare. That time has passed. We have shifted to a culture where As and Bs are the norm, Cs occur with decreasing frequency and Fs are rarely, if ever, given." Read More

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