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Upcraft, M. Lee; Gardner, John N. – 1989
Guidelines to enhancing the freshman year experience are presented in the following chapters: (1) "A Comprehensive Approach to Enhancing Freshman Success" (M. Lee Upcraft, John N. Gardner); (2) "Who Are Today's Freshmen?" (Arthur Levine); (3) "A Historical Look at the Freshman Year Experience" (John Orr Dwyer); (4) "Understanding Student…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Adult Students, Athletes, Black Students
Download full textGardenhire, John Fouts – 1996
Laney's Success Model for First-Year Students attempts to increase retention by accommodating students and encouraging learning. It requires an institutional commitment for student academic success and tries to dispel the forces of attrition: academic boredom, difficulty adjusting to college life, and academic underpreparedness. The first-year…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Programs, Community Colleges, Faculty Development
Peer reviewedFratantuono, Michael J.; Senecal, Kristin S. – Journal of the Freshman Year Experience & Students in Transition, 1996
Discussion of a Dickinson College (Pennsylvania) first-year seminar identifies its teaching objectives, describes class activities, and examines transcripts from the simulation of a negotiation, the course's capstone experience. Evidence suggests the students mastered information and concepts, were thinking critically about issues, had developed a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen, Conflict Resolution
Siegel, Betty L. – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 1994
Kennesaw State College (Georgia) adopted an invitational approach to create an environment which encouraged and affirmed students, faculty, staff and administrators. A new institutional environment aimed at serving diverse, contemporary needs and involved commitment to shared governance, encouragement of leadership at all levels, community…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, College Freshmen, College Students
Peer reviewedMurtaugh, Paul A.; Burns, Leslie D.; Schuster, Jill – Research in Higher Education, 1999
Survival analysis was used to model retention of 8,867 undergraduate students at Oregon State University from 1991 to 1996. Attrition increased with age and nonresident status; it decreased with higher high-school and first-quarter grades, and attendance in a freshman orientation course. Retention was also associated with race/ethnicity and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Age Differences, Case Studies
Hellebrandt, Josef, Ed.; Varona, Lucia T., Ed. – 1999
This volume is part of a series of 18 monographs on service learning and the academic disciplines. It is designed to help teachers, administrators, and students realize the potential of service learning in Spanish. Following a Foreword by Carmen Chaves Tesser and an Introduction by Josef Hellebrandt and Lucia T. Varona, the four essays in Part 1,…
Descriptors: Altruism, Bilingualism, College Freshmen, College Students
