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Chickering’s Vectors of Development: Developing Purpose

by Sean Cook April 23, 2010 For College Parents
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I never would have gotten where I am today if I hadn’t spent time as a younger man dwelling on what I was supposed to do with my life.

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Don’t Get Caught in a Catch 22!

by Mallory Bower April 21, 2010 College to Career
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A few weeks ago, I gave my Intro to Career Development class a job searching assignment. My students were exposed to the famous Catch 22 of job searching: “You need to have experience to get experience.” A huge part of my job is to teach students, to teach you, how to outsmart the Catch 22.

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College Student Development: Moving from Autonomy to Interdependence

by Sean Cook November 28, 2009 For College Parents

Development of emotional autonomy involves a gradual decrease in the need for approval and reassurance of others, toward independence and self regulation. Recognition of interdependence follows from independence as the student finds a middle ground between being one’s own person and slavish conformity.

How can parents support this natural development? How can college students assert autonomy and move toward interdependence?

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