With the growing emphasis on service-learning and the heightened necessity for experience on a resume, the ability to validate a student’s participation in cocurricular experiences has become absolutely necessary. Over the past 40 years, colleges and universities across the country have begun to recognize this necessity as it became increasingly clear that extracurricular activities do provide experiential learning opportunities not found in the classroom.
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Creating an Academic Culture of Working to Live
I’m often asked how I succeed at managing work-life balance—or as I call it, “life-work balance”— and it stems from my childhood. My parents both worked as educators, and