Category: Impact

Click here to see the 2017 IMPACT Trop — a guide to campus life prepared by student journalists for new students, especially those attending IMPACT summer orientation.

Click here to see the 2016 IMPACT Trop — a guide to campus life prepared by student journalists for new students, especially those attending IMPACT summer orientation.

Jeff Davis Gamble Chynna McKillion knew that while she was in college she had to have extra money, so she took out student loans. When you are planning for college, essential decisions have to be made about balancing income and expenditures as a student. Student debt is a real and daunting problem many graduates face while Read More

Jane Morrell Paige Bartlett lays her syllabus on the table, sips coffee and begins to compare prices on Amazon.com for a required textbook. “There are several ways I go about purchasing books,” Bartlett, a nursing major from Decatur who was a junior in the spring, says as she scrolls through her options. Every student has had Read More

Jessie Cocking When Lindsey Taylor learned she would be living in the Newman Center, the newest dorm on campus, she was thrilled, but a little reluctant. She said she was worried about how quickly the dorm had been built. “While living in the Newman Center, I only had a few problems,” said Taylor, a biomedical sciences Read More