David Strickland

DAVID L. STRICKLAND is the Director of the First Year Experience Program and (full) Professor of Sociology at East Georgia State College where he has taught college for over 20 years. He is the author of the freshman orientation course textbook, College Success: A Concise Practical Guide, now in its seventh edition. In addition to writing, he has taught college courses full time for more than twenty years. During that time he also served for three years as the Director of Institutional Research for the college. Prior to teaching sociology, he conducted grant-funded health care research at the Center for Rural Health and Research at Georgia Southern University and published numerous articles and chapters on the sociology of health care. He has been a pioneer in the area of online instruction and served as a co-author for the eCore version of Introduction to Sociology, which was used by the thirty-four institutions of the University System of Georgia. Strickland credits some of his insights regarding orientation to college to the fact that he, like a large number of the students that he teaches, was a first-generation high school and college graduate.