<p>Thanks for the ideas, all of you–sorry for not answering sooner, but I had to go out of town briefly. I don’t know yet what the options will be, but we should know something soon, and we’re trying to be ready with suggestions. I think that learning style and maturity have been issues. He doesn’t seem to want to work collaboratively, but that may reflect his feeling that he’s not pulling his weight in the group. Also, when you must do academic “triage,” deciding what needs to be done now and what can wait, it’s hard to make the correct decision. Last term, he decided to give less time to the things he was doing OK in in order to save the really bad one. This turned out to be a bad gamble. He has tried tutors (don’t know if he did this term) with little success. Some were better than others, but all were other students. As to blossom’s question, his worst problems have been in math. Courses that use math have been slightly less troubling. Humanities and soc. sci. courses have been OK, but haven’t received the attention that they needed because of the other problems. He has been in regular communication with the dean, and has spoken with his profs (something he was too timid to do his freshman year). He wants to take care of everything on his own. We’re just wondering what the potential catastrophes are in this situation and how to suggest he avoid them.</p>