Your College Experience: Strategies for Success - Softcover

Gardner, John N.; Jerome, A. Jewler; Jewler, A. Jerome

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9780534593926: Your College Experience: Strategies for Success

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534593925 ISBN 13: 9780534593926

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co, 2004

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YOUR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE provides an intelligent and thorough guide for college students to improve academic and personal skills, from test taking to time management. John Gardner is a well-known proponent of the first-year seminar and was instrumental is creating the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina. Based on the belief that any one can succeed in college as long as the student is prepared for change, each chapter of the book is co-written with consultants who are experts on their various fields. The book is packaged with a free CD-ROM that contains a variety of exercises and self-assessments. Adopters of the book can benefit from the extensive College Success workshop program Wadsworth offers, including teacher training workshops (both on campus and on e-seminar), and additional student and instructor resources.

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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:

"One of the strengths of the (previous) edition of YOUR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE is the way in which ’Examining Values,’ ’Critical Thinking’ and ’Speaking of Career’ topics are interspersed with the text throughout...Another strength of the text is that the chapters are concise and very readable, yet they are intelligent."

"I feel one of the biggest strengths of the text is that it appears to touch on almost every issue a first-year student is likely to face upon entering college...and then some!"

"Every student, no matter how academically talented they might be, will find some feature of this textbook to relate to and learn from."

"The material is clearly written...the exercises are well done."

"The text is written in a straightforward way which is neither too verbose nor insultingly simplistic. It addresses topics essential to basic student development and does this in a holistic manner."

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