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Session Handouts
28th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience
February 6-10, 2009
Orlando, Florida

 
5-E - Optimizing and Automating Your Center Services & Data
   
 
10-E - Improving the First College Year: Areas of Focus
   
 
12-E - Habitudes: The Habits and Attitudes of a First-Year Student
   
 
13-E - Building Student Team Skills, Inclusion, and Diversity Appreciation - Simultaneously
   
 
15-E - Orientation 101 ~ The National Orientation Directors Association
   
 
18-CR - The Strengths to Succeed: Research on Strategies to Enhance Student Success in the First Year
   
 
19-CI - Using the Annual Discussion Book to Promote Campus-Wide Learning Outcomes
   
 
30-CI - Using Performance-Based Assessments to Promote Critical Thinking in First-Year Students
   
 
31-CI - The Impact of Pre Enrollment Programs on Incoming Students
   
 
31-CI - Finding Success and Navigating Growing Pains: The Transition to an Academically Focused First-Year Seminar
   
 
37-CI - An FYE Program Model for Community College Students
   
 
41-CI - Developmental Learning Communities: Fostering Success in the Community College
   
 
43-CR - The Challenges of Teaching for Engaged Citizenship in the First College Year: The Role of Cognitive-Structural Theories
   
 
47-CI - Dreaming of the Perfect Student Staff: A Look at FYE Student Leader Recruitment, Selection, and Training
   
 
52-CI - Northern Kentucky University’s Book Connection: A Decade of Discovery
   
 
53-CI - The Brother to Brother Program: Helping Retain Multicultural and First-Generation Males
   
 
54-CT - Dispelling Myths and Confirming Realities of Today’s First-Year Students: A Look at the Data
   
 
62-CT - Whatever Happened to Class (In Class?) Civility Issues in the College Classroom
   
 
69-CI - Project Peak: A First-Year Seminar With an Adventure Twist
   
 
70-CT - A New FYE Approach For Millennials
   
 
71-CI - Millennials as Mentors
   
 
72-CI - Assessment and Implementation of a Successful Comprehensive First-Year Experience Program
   
 
73-R - Celebrating the END of First Year
   
 
76-CR - FYE Online – Making Two Transitions
   
 
CI-84 - Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in a First-Year Transition Course for SACS Accreditation
   
 
104-PR - An Examination of First-Year Students' Vocational Interest Patterns
   
 
206-PA - Meeting the First-Year Seminar Requirement with an Online Option
   
 
108-PR - Enhancing Learning Outcomes for First-Year Geography Students
   
 
110-PA - FYE Career Project: Myth Busters
   
 
111-PA - First Contact: The New Student Meeting at the University of Iowa
   
 
118-PA - Modular Delivery and Supplemental Instruction (SI) for the Calculus Course
   
 
123-PA - FYE Web Site 3.1: Revising for Inclusion
   
 
129-PA - A Twist on Summer Bridge
   
 
132-PR - First-Year Interest Groups: The Solid Foundation to a Successful College Career
   
 
133-PA - Establishing Student Participation and Campus Collaboration for a New First-Year Portfolio Development Program
   
 
135-PA - Developing an Online Community Site to Infuse Diversity Into a First-Year Enrichment Program: Successes and Challenges
   
 
137-PR - Measuring Identity in First-Year Learning Communities
   
 
141-CR - A Multi-Campus Study of the Perceived Effects of First-Year Seminars on the Experience of Students in Their First Semester of College
   
 
143-CI - Success by Design: Supporting the First-Year Seminar Instructor
   
 
144-CT - Partnerships to First-Year Reading Successes in Critical Thinking and Civic Engagement
   
 
146-CI - Academic Coaching: An Integral Component of the First-Year Experience
   
 
149-CT - “Connect Four”: Games That Promote Interactive Learning
   
 
150-CI - Preparing Peer Mentors for Success
   
 
153-R - The FYE at the Postmodern Multiversity
   
 
154-CI - The Ever-Evolving/Always Responding First-Year Seminar
   
 
156-CR - Help I’m Failing and I Can’t Get Up: From Suspension to Success
   
 
158-CR - Learning Communities for Undecided Students: Required or not? Absolutely Required!
   
 
160-CT - A Huge Success: How to Bridge the Gap Between Academic and Residential First-Year Programs
   
 
167-R - Fostering Critical Thinking through Discussion and Journals
   
 
168-CI - Using Clickers to Promote Active Learning at Orientation and Assess New Students’ Perceptions about Success in College
   
 
171-CT - A Sampling of Library Instruction Ideas for First-Year Students
   
 
171-CT - A Sampling of Library Instruction Ideas for First-Year Students
   
 
172-CI - Re-Aligning the First-Year Seminar with Changing Student Needs and Expectations of Higher Education
   
 
178- CT - The Application and Promise of Hierarchical Linear Models in Studying First-Year Student Programs
   
 
180-R - A First-Year Seminar That Counts: Incorporating Seminars Into the General Education Curriculum
   
 
182-CT - Teaching the Teacher: Faculty Development for First-Year Seminars
   
 
184-CI - A First-Course Experience for the Online Adult Learner: The Excelsior Model
   
 
185-CR - Focus Up Front: Engaging Entering Students
   
 
188-CI - Supporting Students Successful Academic and Cocurricular Transition Through an Experiential and Learning-Based Orientation Program
   
 
190-CI - Online Summer Peer Mentoring: Keeping the Connection from Orientation to Welcome Week
   
 
191-CT - First-Year Students’ Library Fear Deconstructed
   
 
198-CI - Implementation of a New Learning Outcome-Based Undergraduate Curriculum: The Role of the First-Year Introduction to Business Course
   
 
202-CI - Choices: A Unique Approach to Alcohol Education
   
 
203-CI - The First-Year College Village: A Partnership
   
 
206-R - The Evolution of a First-Year Experience Office
   
 
212-FD - Advocating for Students, a Glimpse Into the Process
   
 
221-CR - Faculty Making a Difference: Improving Retention Through Collaboration and Research
   
 
223-CI - Living Simply: Lessons from a First-Year Learning Community
   
 
227-CI - Extending the Family: Developing a Family Association
   
 
235-CI - Getting to Know You: Partnering With the Library To Create Life-Long Learners
   
 
238-CR - The Relationships Between Reasons to Attend College and Learning Community Participation
   
 
240-CT - Students as Consumers of Knowledge: Are They Buying What We're Selling?
   
 
242-CI - Sharing the Responsibility: A University-Wide Effort to Improve the First-Year Experience for Students at McNeese State University
   
 
243-CI - The Umbrella Effect: Initiating Retention Programs for an Engaged Learning Campus
   
 
252-CI - “Big Changes in Little Packages”: Integrating Academic and Student Life Initiatives
   

 

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