The percentage of first-year college students in 2015 that returned for their second year was 74 percent, according to Kelly Field in her article “A Third of Your Freshmen Disappear. How Can You Keep Them?,” published June 3 by The Chronicle of Higher Education. The same article says that these rates have stayed around the same number for the past 10 years. … [Read more...] about Help Freshmen Through Midterms
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SCEWP Elevates Women to Lead
Photos by Lindsey Sullivan The Southern California Egalitarian Worship Project recently marked its first complete year of worship services, since beginning in August 2017. Members of several Churches of Christ churches in the area came together to create SCEWP to offer women who are interested opportunities to lead and serve in worship services. Meetings are held about once … [Read more...] about SCEWP Elevates Women to Lead
Create an Impact on the World as a Woman and Activist
Photo by Cameryn Zorb Recently, many people in the industry have made allegations against some big names in Hollywood, resulting in the #MeToo movement. These stories of the sexual misconduct toward women and men in the movie industry, and in the workplace in general, have many realizing that something has to change. Specifically, I want to focus on the ways in which women … [Read more...] about Create an Impact on the World as a Woman and Activist
Positivity
Photo by Shannon Hansen Positivity and perspective. Two seemingly unrelated ideas, both wrought with progressively deep meaning. Perspective melds our outlook on the world like welders shape metal. It has influence on who we are and who we want to be: what makes us smile, what makes us laugh and what makes us cry. It has influence on every particle of our being: the … [Read more...] about Positivity
Reinvent Convocation
Art by Peau Porotesano Convocation is no longer fulfilling its purpose for Pepperdine, and that needs to change. If they want to fix the fact that a large majority of students associate “Wednesdays at 10 a.m.” with having teeth pulled, then the Convocation office needs to seriously reconsider what its mission is and what message they are trying to send to the student … [Read more...] about Reinvent Convocation