Your College Experience: Strategies for Success (Freshman Year Experience Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534534155 ISBN 13: 9780534534158

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co

Synopsis

This book offers students insights, activities, and strategies for achieving goals and creating positive experiences throughout the college years. Drawing on the authors' experiences in the areas of student orientation and retention, this text engages students in developing strengths and awareness in all aspects of college life. Many interactive and writing-based activities prepare students to actively participate in the campus community, and take charge of their college careers.

About this title

About the Author:

John N. Gardner brings unparalleled experience to this writing partnership for American higher education's authoritative text for first-year seminar courses. He is the recipient of his institution's highest award for teaching excellence. He has 25 years of experience directing and teaching in the most respected and widely emulated first-year seminar in the U.S., the University 101 course at the University of South Carolina. Gardner is universally recognized as one of the country's leading higher educators for his role in initiating and orchestrating an international reform movement to improve the beginning college experience, a concept he coined as "the first-year experience." He is the founding executive director of two very influential higher education centers which support campuses in their efforts to improve the learning and retention of beginning college students: the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina (www.sc.edu/fye), and the Policy Center on the First Year of College in Brevard, N.C. (www.fyfoundations.org). The experiential basis for all of his work is his own miserable first year of college on academic probation, an experience he hopes to prevent for many of this book's readers.

Review:

"Professors John Gardner and Jerry Jewler have the knowledge of what works and what doesn’t that few can match. That knowledge is contained within the pages of this book. . . . I can’t imagine a more comprehensive introduction to the college experience. . . . I have found that in my own institution, where I teach our version of the freshman seminar, their advice works!"

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
• ISBN 10: 0534534155
• ISBN 13: 9780534534158
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4