A Comparison of the Initial Academic Achievement of Freshman Award Winners who Work and Those who do not Work

Often the parents of first term college students feel that a par.t-time job might interfere with the adjustment of their sons and daughters to their new academic responsibilities. They are apprehensive that part-time employment and a full-time academic schedule will result in poor grades, possibly even probation, on the one hand, or a poor work record on the other hand. Either of these consequences could adversely affect the future of the student, and the parents' primary concern is that the student does the best academic work from the start of which he or. she is capable. For many years, counselors at the secondary and college levels have been concerned with identifying the adjustment problems of first term college students and helping those students overcome their problems in a successful manner.