| Description |
1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Academic success and financial decisions : helping students make crucial choices / Jacqueline E. King -- "Decided," "undecided," and "in transition" : implications for academic advisement, career counseling, and student retention / Joe Cuseo -- First-year students : embracing thier diversity, enhancing our practice / Raechele L. Pope, Teresa A. Miklitsch, and Matthew J. Weigand -- Living, doing and thinking diversity : how does pre-college diversity experience affect first-year students' engagement with college diversity? / Biren (Ratnesh) Nagda, Patricia Gurin, and Shawnti M. Johnson -- Cognitive impacts of the first year of college / Ernest T. Pascarella -- Assessing programs and other student experiences designed to enrich the first-year experience / John H. Schuh -- Going online : promoting student success via distance learning / Christopher R. Poirier and Robert S. Feldman -- Engaging the first-year student / Joni Webb Petschauer and Cindy Wallace -- Building learning communities for first-year students / Jodi Levine Laufgraben |
| Summary |
The first year of college represents an enormous milestone in students' lives. Whether attending a four-year or two-year institution of higher education, living on campus or at home, or enrolled in a highly selective school or a college with an open-admissions policy, students are challenged in unique and demanding ways during their first year |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
College student orientation -- United States -- Case studies
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College freshmen -- United States
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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College freshmen
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College student orientation
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Feldman, Robert S. (Robert Stephen), 1947-
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| ISBN |
1410611868 |
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9781410611864 |
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