What Makes a Student Stand Out Among His or Her Peers?
On the surface, our task as an Enrollment Team at Gap Year seems simple enough: recruit students. During the first years of Impact 360, we realized very quickly that we had quite a challenge on our hands. With only 40 spots available, how do we make the difficult decision of selecting one student with a…
Millennial Faith that Sticks: More than “Niceness”
Over the years we’ve found the Barna Group’s research on faith and Millennials to be helpful, as well as consistent with our experience. Their 2006 study gets at the heart of why Impact 360 Institute’s Gap Year was started in the first place, namely the problem of Millennials disengaging from their faith during and after…
“Who Are You, and What Have You Done with My Kid?” Debriefing Christmas Break
“What has your first semester done to you?” If you’re a parent of a first-year college freshman who came home for the Christmas break, you may well have asked this question. There are a few key things that, in my experience with college students, tend to trigger this kind of question. Here they are, along…