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The National Conference on First-Year Assessment, formerly the Summer Institute on First-Year Assessment, is designed to maximize opportunities for participant learning and networking and structured to create a cumulative learning experience. The Conference’s purpose is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of first-year assessment.
Exploring both quantitative and qualitative assessment practices, conference concurrent sessions allow participants to gain a breadth of knowledge while workshops allow an in-depth examination of major issues.
Faculty, first-year program directors, student affairs professionals, institutional researchers, and assessment practitioners at the conference will engage one another, formally and informally, during the conference while seeking a common goal of better understanding of the first year of college.
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The mission of the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina is to support and advance efforts to improve student learning and transitions into and through higher education. We achieve this mission by providing opportunities for the exchange of practical, theory-based information and ideas through the convening of conferences, teleconferences, institutes, and workshops; publishing monographs, a peer-reviewed journal, a newsletter, guides, and books; generating and supporting research and scholarship; hosting visiting scholars; and administering a web site and electronic listservs.
The Policy Center on the First Year of College has as its basic mission the improvement of the beginning college experience through enhanced learning, success, and retention of new students. This mission is grounded in the belief that an institution’s first-year policies and practices are the foundation for attainment of the larger goals of undergraduate education. The signature work of the Policy Center is the engagement of postsecondary institutions in a model for voluntary, comprehensive self-study and development and implementation of an intentional action plan designed to enhance the effectiveness of the first year.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Primer on First-Year Assessment – Wendy Troxel
Monday, October 13, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Thomas D. Burns, Associate Provost for Academic Administration, Millersville University
Pat Esplin, Director, Freshman Academy, Brigham Young University
Frederick Foster-Clark, Coordinator of General Education and Faculty Member, Psychology Department, Millersville University
Dan Friedman, Director, University 101 Programs, University of South Carolina – effective June 2008
Christy Friend, Associate Professor of English, University of South Carolina
Laurie B. Hanich, Faculty Member, Educational Foundations Department, Millersville University
Darlena Jones, Director for Research and Development, Educational Benchmarking, Inc.
Amanda R. Knerr, Associate Director of Student Affairs, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Jennifer Keup, Director of the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina
Jillian Kinzie, Associate Director, Center for Postsecondary Research & NSSE Institute, Indiana University
Linda L. McDowell, Coordinator of the First-Year Experience; Professor, Educational Foundations Department - Millersville University
Libby V. Morris, Professor of Higher Education and Director, Institute of Higher Education, University of Georgia
William Moses, Professor of Art and Coordinator of Emotional Intelligence, Gallaudet University
Daniel O’Neill, Faculty Member, Department of Counseling and Human Development, Millersville University
Pamela I. Niesslein, Associate Vice President for Accountability and Accreditation, College of Charleston
Carol Y. Phillips, Associate Provost Emerita - Millersville University
Worth Pickering, Director of University Assessment, Institutional Research & Assessment, Old Dominion University
Stefinee Pinnegar, Director, Teaching English Language Learners Project, Brigham Young University
John Pryor, Director, Cooperative Institutional Research Program, UCLA Higher Education Research Institute
Kay Smith, Associate Vice President for the Academic Experience, College of Charleston
Wendy Troxel, Assistant Professor of Educational Administration and Foundations, Illinois State University
Donald Whitaker, Executive Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Ball State University
Sherry Woosley, Associate Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Ball State University
Stephen Zerwas, Director of Academic Assessment, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, in collaboration with the Association for Institutional Research (AIR), is offering up to five fellowships that will cover the registration fee for the National Conference on First-Year Assessment. To learn more or to apply for this fellowship, visit www.sc.edu/fye/events/AIRfellowships.htm or call 803-777-8158. The deadline for applications is September 1, 2008.
Conference Venue Hyatt Regency San Antonio 123 Losoya Street San Antonio, Texas 78205
Room Rate: $189 plus tax single occupancy; $214 plus tax double occupancy. Reservation cut off is September 11, 2008. Specify “National Conference on First-Year Assessment” when making reservations. After this date, reservations are accepted on a space available basis and may not be available at the conference rate. Once the room black is filled, we cannot guarantee the conference room rate will be available.
Reservations can be made by calling (210) 222-1234 or (800) 233-1234.
San Antonio is the second-largest city in the state of Texas and the seventh largest city in the United States. Located in the northern part of South Texas, the city is a cultural gateway into the American Southwest. Famous for its River Walk, the Alamo, Tejano culture, and home to the SeaWorld San Antonio and Six Flags Fiesta Texas theme parks, the city is visited by 20 million tourists per year. San Antonio is also home to the first museum of modern art in Texas, the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, as well as one of the more successful National Basketball Association teams in league history, the San Antonio Spurs. For more information on San Antonio, visit: http://www.citytowninfo.com/places/texas/san-antonio
If you have any questions about conference content, contact Nina Glisson at the National Resource Center at (803) 777-8158. Information about this conference and other events sponsored by the Center can be found on the National Resource Center’s web site www.sc.edu/fye
