If your college student seems withdrawn, exhausted, or unusually quiet lately - you're not imagining it. Here's what's actually going on in their brain right now, how to tell normal struggle from a real warning sign, and three things you can do this week. The February-March Wall Is Real It has a name. Students and counselors call it the Season Funk or the "Season Wall" - and it hits most college campuses like clockwork every year around this exact time. Here's why it happens
For higher education leadership this year, the metrics of success have shifted. It is no longer enough to track enrollment and graduation rates - the new frontier of institutional excellence is Student Agency. As AI reshapes the labour market at an unprecedented pace, universities that fail to address the psychological architecture of career anxiety risk becoming obsolete in the very outcome they were designed to produce: graduate employability. The Sobering Reality: A Readin
