Students often struggle with picturing a novel’s characters and plot. Often referred to as “making a mental movie,” this skill is vital to getting through a long and complicated piece of literature.

This article is part of the collection: Crossing the Finish Line: Stories on Student Success and What Colleges Are Doing to Get There. Gone are the days when a college advisor’s main duty was to help ...

On the first of five visits to Special Collections & Archives this semester, first-year students in the seminar Maps, Territory, and Power in Asia leaned over large tables to peer at maps of the ...