Young people can face new and sometimes daunting challenges when they first venture out into the world of higher education.
And Dr. Lesley Travers, new president of Eastern Wyoming College, experienced several of those challenges first hand.
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TORRINGTON – Young people can face new and sometimes daunting challenges when they first venture out into the world of higher education.
And Dr. Lesley Travers, new president of Eastern Wyoming College, experienced several of those challenges first hand.
“I went from Lander – with a population of about 6,000 – to a college with a student body of 10,000,” she said. “From a small community to a college that was bigger than my whole community.
“All of a sudden, I had this freedom, I was an independent person,” Travers said. “That freedom provided me with some poor study habits.”
Along with self-discipline, first-time college students can face a host of other emotions and issues that can make those early days of their freshman year a challenge. Separation from family and friends while meeting a host of new people can combine with increased expectations on the part of instructors to make those early academic days difficult, to say the least.