On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College, Career, and Life - Softcover

Downing, Skip; Brennan, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0357022688 ISBN 13: 9780357022689

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2019

Synopsis

ON COURSE: STRATEGIES FOR CREATING SUCCESS IN COLLEGE, CAREER, AND LIFE empowers you with the tools you need to take charge of your academic and lifelong success. Now in its 9th Edition, ON COURSE presents the choices that successful students make. A self-assessment at the beginning of the text helps you identify behaviors and beliefs you may wish to change in order to achieve more of your potential in college and in life. Through short articles and distinctive guided journal entries, the author encourages you to explore and develop eight keys to your success: personal responsibility, self-motivation, self-management, interdependence, self-awareness, lifelong learning, emotional intelligence, and self-esteem. As you develop these skills, you'll find yourself making more effective choices and achieving greater success. "Healthy Choices" and "At Work" articles will teach you strategies for making wise choices in college and beyond. In addition, the MindTap-exclusive "Toolbox for Active Learners" provides extensive coverage of study skills that will help you excel in all of your college courses. Another self-assessment before and after the "Toolbox for Active Learners" will show you how much you've learned about being an effective learner.

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About the Author

Dr. Brennan has a PhD in Comparative Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley, an EdD in Educational Leadership and Change (Fielding GraduateUniversity), an MA in English (UC Berkeley) and an MS in CognitivePsychology (USM). In the last two decades, he has focused his researchon higher education leadership, best practices in non-cognitive learnercompetencies and the intersection between race, culture, equity, andaccess to education. Dr. Brennan is a faculty member (and former chair)of the English Department at Mission College in Santa Clara, California. He designed and coordinated an On Course Program at Mission Collegethat significantly improved the retention and academic success rate ofstudents in developmental English, Mathematics, Reading, and ESL. He was voted Faculty of the Year at Mission College in 1999-2000 and wasawarded a NISOD Teaching Excellence Award. In April, 2005, he wasawarded the Stanback-Stroud Diversity award from the California StateAcademic Senate, and in 2008 was awarded the California State HaywardAward for Excellence in Education. Since 2006, he has served as Chair of the On Course National Conference and is currently Editor of the OnCourse student success newsletter which has nearly 200,000 subscribersworldwide. He has facilitated workshops on improving student learningfor over 6,000 faculty from colleges and universities across NorthAmerica. Dr. Brennan's teaching, writing, and consulting are guided byhis belief that all students deserve an opportunity to find theirpassion for lifelong learning, and accomplish their academic, career,and life goals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0357022688
• ISBN 13: 9780357022689
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 432