Greenfield / Keup / Gardner Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programs

A Guide for Practitioners
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-22070-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, E-Book

Praise for Developing and Sustaining Successful First-YearPrograms
"An essential guide to the thorny task of not only developingsuccessful first-year programs, the critical building blocks forstudent college completion, but also sustaining them over time. Itshould be at the top of the reading list of all faculty, staff, andadministrators concerned with making substantial improvements instudent success in the first year of college."
--Vincent Tinto, Distinguished University Professor,Syracuse University
"Grounded in scholarly literature and higher education theory,Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programsprovides a much-needed next-generation resource to advance acomprehensive, integrated, and multi-faceted first-year experienceas well as practical guidance to educators who want to become moreeffective first-year student advocates."
--Jillian Kinzie, associate director, Indiana UniversityCenter for Postsecondary Research, NSSE Institute
"The authors do an excellent job both of providing a conceptualframework for the first year and of grounding their programdescriptions in the work of a diverse range of campuses, providingexemplars of good practice, centered on assessment, in enhancingstudent academic achievement and persistence. The book will be ofuse both to policy makers and administrators focused on enhancingstudent success and to practitioners who will make good use ofexcellent observations and recommendations."
--Scott Evenbeck, president, The New Community Collegeat CUNY

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenfield, Gerald M.

Keup, Jennifer R.

Gardner, John N.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface by John N. Gardner xi
The Authors xvii
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction: Where Have We Been, and Where Are We Going? xxvii
1 High-Impact Pedagogies 1
2 Summer Bridge Programs 21
3 New Student Orientation 43
4 Advising 67
5 First-Year Seminars 89
6 Learning Communities 113
7 Residential Learning Programs 136
8 Developmental Education 157
9 Early Alert Warning Systems 179
10 Probation Initiatives 202
11 Peer Leadership 224
12 Second-Year Transitions 249
Conclusion: Lessons Learned 271
References 277
Index 319

Über Autor(innen)

Gerald M. Greenfield, a professor emeritus of history atUniversity of Wisconsin, Parkside and long-time director of itsteaching and learning center, spent seven years there as a senioradministrator in academic affairs. Greenfield led the university'sparticipation in the Foundations of Excellence in the First CollegeYear and organized and chaired their initial First Year Committee.He is accredited as a peer evaluator for the Higher LearningCommission.
Jennifer R. Keup is the director of the National ResourceCenter for The First-Year Experience® and Students inTransition and also serves as an affiliated faculty member in theDepartment of Educational Leadership and Policies in the College ofEducation at the University of South Carolina.
John N. Gardner is the senior fellow of the NationalResource Center, distinguished professor emeritus at the Universityof South Carolina, and president of the John N. Gardner Institutefor Excellence in Undergraduate Education. Gardner is the author orcoauthor of The Freshman Year Experience, Challenging andSupporting the First-Year Student, Helping Sophomores Succeed, TheSenior Year Experience, and Achieving and SustainingInstitutional Excellence for the First Year of College.