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Woolfork-Barnes, Toni – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2017
For more than 30 years, John Gardner has elevated the discussion about the importance of student success in the first-year of college, with a heightened emphasis on first-year seminar courses and their value. Many colleges and universities offer some version of a first-year experience seminar, which is true for the Midwestern MAC School discussed…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, School Holding Power, Enrollment, Enrollment Management
Strayhorn, Terrell L. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2009
This quantitative research study sought to measure the impact of first-year seminar participation on three correlates of student retention: academic integration, social integration, and satisfaction with college life. Results suggest that students who participate in first-year seminars are not necessarily more integrated into the academic and…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Social Integration, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power
Browning, Catherine; Sheffield, Suzanne Le-May – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2008
This paper shares new insights on the first-year university student transition experience. Our research focuses on students' practice of academic skills developed in a "Foundations for Learning" course, from their own perspective, after they completed the course. Once they had an opportunity to practice what they learned in subsequent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Transitional Programs, First Year Seminars
Camarena, Phame; Saltarelli, Andrew; Lung, Janice – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2006
Assessment data from both an FYE-infused general education course (N = 153) and a first-year seminar (N = 392) were analyzed to identify students' perceptions about projects that required significant participation in out-of-class activities as an integral part of the course. The results from this analysis revealed that in addition to increasing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, First Year Seminars, Student Attitudes, Data Analysis
South Carolina Univ., Columbia. National Resource Center for the Freshman Year Experience and Students in Transition. – 1995
This booklet provides the program and abstracts of presentations given at the Fourth Canadian-American Conference on the First-Year Experience. It includes a list of the goals of the conference, sponsoring institutions, staff, and general information about the conference. The booklet then provides brief descriptions of the 51 sessions held over…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, College Instruction, College Programs, Enrollment Management