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31st Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience
February 17-21, 2012 <> San Antonio, Texas
We invite you to be a part of productive collaborations, conversations, and relationships aimed at providing successful transitions in the first college year. Click here for more information.
Why San Antonio? Click here to see what makes San Antonio the ideal destination for a winter professional development experience related to the first-year experience.
Institute for First-Year Seminar Leadership
April 15-17, 2012
University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
Registration Deadline <> April 12, 2012
Join us for the third offering of the Institute for First-Year Seminar Leadership. The Institute is designed to provide those charged with the task of delivering a successful first-year seminar with valuable information, fresh ideas, and some much-needed inspiration. Visit http://www.sc.edu/fye/institute/ for more information.
Why Columbia? Click here to see we are now hosting institutes on the campus of the University of South Carolina.
25th International Conference on The First-Year Experience
July 16-19, 2012 <> Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Proposal Submission Deadline <> March 16, 2012
Early Registration Deadline <> June 11, 2012
We invite you to join with educators from countries around the world in Vancouver as we celebrate 25 years of enhancing and expanding the first-year movement across the world.
Quality proposals that sufficiently and seriously address student transitions in the first year of higher or tertiary education will be accepted through March 16, 2012.
Why Vancouver? Click here to see what makes Vancouver the ideal destination for our next international conference.
Designed for students and educational professionals researching students, movement into and through higher education, Crafting and Conducting Research on Student Transitions is a concise resource, describing both qualitative and quantitative methods. Click here for more information.
Guided by an understanding of adult development, the authors suggest strategies for designing and presenting a comprehensive faculty development program in support of the first-year seminar. While focused on the first-year seminar, the volume offers useful insight for anyone charged with designing faculty development initiatives for first-year instructors.Click here for more
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