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Tyrone E. McKoy Jr. – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2021
Is early enrollment in a qualified first-year seminar (FYS) positively associated with second-year retention rates of new community college students? A large mid-Atlantic community college (MAC) believes that it is, and this belief is the basis for the hypothesis being tested in this research. Beginning in 2010, new first-time college and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Enrollment, First Year Seminars, School Holding Power
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Cavner-Williams, Lauren; Conley, Kristin; Pavletic, Heather; Weller, Kirk – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 2021
The C4 Scholar program (Cross-Curricular Career Community) is a multi-semester, interdisciplinary learning community program at a comprehensive Midwestern university for underprepared students entering with three developmental placements in English composition, mathematics, and reading. The program, which includes course acceleration and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Developmental Studies Programs, At Risk Students, Freshman Composition
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Ito, Hiroshi – International Journal of Higher Education, 2014
Learning assessments of the First-Year Experience (FYE) at universities have drawn increasing attention. Despite its current popularity, few pieces of literature on the FYE learning assessment exist in Japan. To present a case of FYE in the context of Japan, this paper examines the FYE course called the Vision Planning Seminar (VPS) at the Nagoya…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Student Experience, Strategic Planning