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• Innovative teaching strategies
• Descriptions of institutional initiatives with demonstrated results
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• Programs addressing the needs of special student populations (e.g., adult learners, ethnic and racial minority students, first-generation students, GLBT students)
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Current Issue

Vol 6 No 5

Creating a Comprehensive Sophomore Year Experience
K. Rindal & S. Wiesneski
The College of Saint Benedict encourages sophomore identity and engagement through new and restructured programming.

The Big Picture (a column by Joe Cuseo)
Extrinsic Motivational Strategies for Promoting Student Reading
Part two in a series focusing on students' motivation to read independently, Joe Cuseo discusses extrinsic reading strategies for engaging students.

Library Fear Deconstructed: Overcoming Library Anxiety
S. Hartman
This article examines students’ fear of campus libraries and librarians and presents strategies to alleviate library anxiety.

Mayville State University Revamps First-Year Seminar
K. Bitz
Mayville’s Seminar on Success (SOS) rescues sagging seminar enrollment.

Improving First-Year Students’ Out-of-Classroom Faculty Interactions
J. Vianden
This article describes curricular and cocurricular strategies to encourage mutually beneficial outcomes from faculty-student interactions.

The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition Advisory Board
First in a series, this article describes the NRC advisory board, providing a brief description of the composition and responsibilities of the board and introducing 4 of the 16 members.

Resource Spotlight
T. Vakos
NRC staff provides an overview of National Issues Forums books to teach critical thinking skills and First in the Family support materials for first-generation college students.

What’s Happening at the National Resource Center