Session Handouts
25th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience
February 24-28, 2006
Atlanta, Georgia

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Session E-2
Findings From the 2005 Your First College Year Survey: Exploring the Critical Issues of Adjustment and Satisfaction

Session E-3
Educator-Publisher Partnerships: Collaborating to Promote the Success of First-Year Students

Session C-10
Partnerships: Academic and Student Affairs

Session C-11
Enhancing Academic Skills to Meet University Expectations

Session C-14
Diversity Begins at Home

Session I-21
Promoting First-Year Student Success Through Residentially Based Academic Initiatives

Session I-22
Getting to Know You: A Campus Initiative to Engage First-Year Students Before They Arrive on Campus

Session I-23
Institutional Renewal: Comprehensive Reform of Retention and Graduation Policies and Practices, 2002-2005

Session C-28
PIP: Creating a Successful Probation Intervention Program for First-Year Students

Session C-30
Foundations of Excellence Inventory of First-Year Practices

Session C-32
Assessment of the First College Year: A Dozen Easy Ideas

Session I-33
From Disengagement to Engagement: Case Studies from the First Year

Session I-39
Think First: A Peer Educator Program

Session I-40
First-Year Success Series: A Campus-Wide Approach to Educational Programming

Session I-41
All in the Family: Parental Support in New Student Academic and Career Decisions

Session C-43
Using the Student Readiness Inventory to Introduce Critical Skills for College Success Through a First-Year Experience Course

Session C-45
Rules of Engagement

Session C-46
Assessing the First Year of College Experience: A Multifaceted, Integrated Approach

Session I-50
What a President Learned Living With First-Year Residents

Session R-52
Developmental Mismatch Among New College Students: Using First-Year Seminars to Bridge the Gap

Session I-53
Facilitating Adjustment, Commitment, and Academic Success of a First-Year Student From a Historically Disadvantaged Background: A Case Study

Session I-54
Collaboration: Good for Student Success

Session I-55
The Freshman Advising and Priority Registration Program

Session I-57
Transition to Kean [T2K]: A Comprehensive Program to Assist Students in Transition

Session C-63
No First-Year Student Left Behind

Session I-66
The Relationship Between Non-Cognitive Variables and Student Success

Session C-68
Hitting a Wall With Facebook?: Importance and Issues of the Trend

Session I-71
Fast Food for Thought: How Common Readings Whet the Appetite of First-Semester Students

Session C-78
Career Planning for the Millennial Generation

Session C-79
Strategies for Implementing a First-Year Experience Improvement Plan

Session C-81
University College: A First-Year Neighborhood Built Around Effective Advisement

Session I-82
Transformational U: Everyone Counts in Recruitment and Retention

Session I-83
Focus: A Learning Community Shaped by the FYE Course

Session I-84
Fostering First-Year Student Success: A Small College Perspective

Session I-89
Atlanta-Based Learning: Engaged Learning in the Community

Session P-93
Predicting the Performance and Persistence of First-Year College Students: The Role of Non-Cognitive Variables

Session P-94
Creating a Resource Guide for Faculty Teaching First-Year Students

Session P-97
Integrating Service-Learning Into a First-Year Learning Community for Psychology Majors

Session P-98
Institutional Responses to Catastrophic Campus Events: Transient and Persisting Concerns of First-Year Students Following Three Hurricanes

Session P-99
Learning Communities Enhance Student Outcomes and Ignite Campus Expansion Efforts

Session P-100
“First-Year Friendly”: Designing an Online Library Skills Tutorial for Millennials

Session P-105
Using a First-Year Weekly Newsletter to Help Students Learn About Campus

Session P-109
Extracurricular Support for First-Year Composition: The Washburn Writers Program

Session P-110
The College Classroom Stressors Scale (CCSS): A Principal Components Analysis and Initial Validation

Session P-115
Foundations for Learning, Growth, and Success: The First-Year Foundations Program at Wilkes University

Session P-117
Mentoring the First-Year Student: Learning Outcomes of Undergraduate Peer Mentors

Session P-119
The LINK Career Development Project: Engaging First-Year Students in Professional Development

Session P-124
Writing Assessment for the Seminar in First-Year Experience

Session C-133
Career Services and Employment Resources that Impact Retention

Session C-135
“Let Me Call My Mom First!”: The Challenges of Working With Millennial Students and Their Parents

Session C-137
Mentoring the Next Generation of Student Advocates

Session I-145
Faculty Mentor Orientation Program

Session C-148
Did They Really Learn Anything? Transforming First-Year Seminar Assessment to Measure Student Learning Outcomes

Session I-154
Partnering for Student Success: The University of South Carolina’s Early Intervention Initiative

Session I-155
Renovating Pacific’s Full First-Year Mentor Program

Session I-159
TRU’s Shared Leadership Model: Tips, Tricks, & Traps for Developing and Expanding a Successful FYE Initiative

Session I-161
Enhancing Student Experiences and Retention through Multicultural Learning Communities

Session I-163
From Start to Finish: Successful Classroom Interventions

Session C-181
Integrating a First-Year Seminar into Learning Communities to Increase Academic Performance and Student Engagement

Session R-186
Take 5! Great Ideas for Teaching First-Year Students

Session I-189
Enhanced Assessment for Enhanced Achievement: Linking Assessment Tools to First-Year Seminar Learning Outcomes

Session I-190
The Boot Camp Approach to FYE: A Radical Approach to Retention of First-Year Students

Session I-191
Students Teaching Students

Session I-192
Creating a First-Year Experience Course from Scratch

Session I-193
Finally, Student Success in Developmental Mathematics

Session I-198
Life Design: A Creative Approach to the First-Year Experience

Session C-200
A Strengths-Based Approach to the First-Year Experience

Session R-203
Orientation: A Two-Way Street

Session C-210
University-Mandated Program Review of a First-Year Seminar Program: A Successful Model

Session C-211
Helping Students Build a Self-Portfolio: A Strategy for Success

Session I-213
Writing and Thinking Across Disciplines in First-Year Learning Communities

Session I-214
Putting It Together! The Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of a First-Year Program

Session R-216
Collaboration, Innovation, Instruction: Best Practices in the First-Year Seminar

Session I-218
Survival Skills Programme for First-Year Students