How Students Can Make the Most of Their College Education

Guidelines from a college dean on how to handle failure, grow in maturity, and pursue excellence.
How Students Can Make the Most of Their College Education
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Jeff Minick
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In this fall of 2024, around 16 million students will be enrolled in American colleges and universities. That’s roughly the equivalent of the combined populations of our nation’s five largest cities—New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix.

The newcomers in this grand parade of undergraduates may arrive on campus wondering whether they’re prepared for the rigors of college academics. Veterans of the classroom may return to their studies, asking themselves how to get the greatest good from their college experience.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.