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Main Character Energy: Writing Students into the Story
WACademic Blog · October 12, 2026
Nearly four in ten college students never finish a credential, often because their courses feel disconnected from their own lives. In this article, Dr. Adam Galarza introduces main character energy, a narrative-identity framework he presented at Purdue Global’s 18th Annual General Education Conference. Through origin-story reflections, goal mapping, and “plot twist” journaling, it helps students see themselves as the protagonists of their own education, not passengers moving through it.
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