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Fostering Social Connectedness in First Year Seminar Students: A Pilot Study

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Rebecca Kudrna; Suzanne Tiemann; Michael Swoboda; Timothy Hanrahan – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2024

University First Year Seminar (FYS) programs are diverse in their content and pedagogy. Yet all seek to assist first-year students in the difficult college transition. The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate if grouping similar academic majors into the existing First Year Seminar (FYS) courses would improve social connectedness, use of…

Descriptors: College Faculty, First Year Seminars, School Orientation, College Freshmen