College Transfer Success: Making a Smooth Transition, Third Edition - Softcover

Alyssa Bethel Williams; Donna Dimsdale Housman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594940797 ISBN 13: 9781594940798

Publisher: CPCC Press, 2016

Synopsis

College Transfer Success, Third Edition, provides students with the information you need to develop clear academic goals and chart a successful transition into a university environment. The book explores the N.C. Comprehensive Articulation Agreement, college culture, paying for college, student support services, and more. Enjoy newly revised and expanded sections! * Intro to college life * Academic integrity * Resources and strategies * Career exploration * Study skills * Transfer 101

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About the Author

Alyssa Bethel Williams, M.A., is a faculty member at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, N.C. She has more than 17 years of experience as an instructor, advisor and trainer of adults in the public, private and community college sectors of higher education. Her areas of collegiate experience include leadership development, career counseling, new student orientation, academic advising, residence life, Greek affairs, judicial affairs, services for differently abled students and programming. She is a graduate of Tusculum College and received a Master of Arts degree in Student Development for Higher Education from Trinity University. In her current role, she is an instructor and Discipline Chair for Career Assessment and Transfer Student Success courses and teaches College Student Success and College Study Skills courses. Alyssa has also trained adults in the corporate arena on effective leadership, team building, group facilitation, diversity and conflict mediation and resolution. * * * Donna Housman, M.S., is a faculty member at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, N.C. She has over 25 years of experience in teaching and training adults in corporate, academic and public settings, focusing on leadership and management development, facilitation skills, self-awareness and team building. She is a graduate of Wake Forest University and has a Master of Science degree in Adult Education from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In her current role she teaches College Study Skills, Career Assessment, College Transfer Success and College Student Success. Her interests are also in improving students' readiness for online learning, incorporating global learning into her classroom, and ensuring that community college students are adequately prepared for university transfer. She previously taught English as a Second Language classes, providing civics-based ESL instruction for intermediate and advanced ESL students and served as an instructor for ESL Fast Track Teacher Training.

Edition details

• Publisher: CPCC Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1594940797
• ISBN 13: 9781594940798
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 188