Session Handouts
26th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience
February 16-20, 2007
Addison, Texas
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7-E
Using the Take Hold of Your Future Curriculum for Real Results
9-E
Successful Intelligence: How to Help Students Develop Analytical, Creative, and Practical Intelligence
10-E
How Do I Get Students To Submit Quality Writing Assignments?
14-CT
The Sounds of Success: Using Music in the First-Year Experience Classroom
15-CA
Collaboration on First-Year Learning Communities Between Two-Year College and Research University
18-CR
Investigating Motivational Beliefs and Learning Strategies of College Students
20-CA
Creating a Comprehensive, Curriculum-Based First-Year Experience
22-CT
Learning Outcomes: Everybody Wins
23-CA
Art for Seeing and Thinking: Incorporating a Structured Art Experience in the First-Year Seminar
24-CA
Developing Faculty While Developing Learning Communities
25-CA
Character U
26-CT
First-Year Seminar: Kick It Up a Notch!
27-RD
Information Literacy and the First-Year Experience: A Roundtable Conversation
29-CT
Knocking Down the Walls: Teaching First-Year Students Truth, Trust, and Responsibility in the Classroom
32-CA
High Risk to High Success: The Synergy of First-Year Learning Communities, Faculty Development, and Intrusive Advising
33-RD
Challenges and Opportunities: FYE Programs at Community Colleges
34-CA
Engineering Mathematics Education at Wright State University: Uncorking the First-Year Bottleneck
35-CT
Teaching Students How to Avoid Plagiarism: Success Strategies
38-CA
Academic Peer Mentoring: Making First-Year Connections
40-CT
A Recipe for Success: Ingredients for Group Work
43-CT
Exploring a Sense of Life Calling and Purpose within First-Year Programming at Public University
44-CR
Using AlcoholEdu to Identify a High-Risk Population of First-Year Students
49-CT
Using Properties of Campus Culture to Strengthen the Student-Campus Bond in the First Year of College
52-CA
Encouraging Engagement: Description and Assessment of a General Education Initiative for First-Year Students
54-CA
Promoting Student Success at The University of South Carolina
56-CT
Teaching the Art of New Parent Transitions
60-CA
From 0 to 60+: Revving up FYE at Warp Speed
63-CT
Critical Thinking: What We Know & Questions We’re Still Asking
64-CT
Career Perspectives: Visualizing Success Through Multiple Lenses
66-CR
Making Connections: The Social Networks of First-Year Students Enrolled in Learning Communities
68-CR
Supporting Diversity: International Students’ Insights About the First-Year
69-CR
Understanding What They Have Learned: Direct Measurement of Student Outcomes in a First-Year Seminar One Year Later
71-CT
StrengthsQuest + LASSI = Behavior Change: Student Self-Assessments Used to Promote Active Learning
80-CA
Designing a Learning Community for Developmental Students
84-CA
Collaboration Through Learning Teams: The Key to a Successful FYE
Initiative at NDSU
86-PA
Mastering the Art of Effective Study: Fostering Academic Success Through an Intensive, Preventative Study Skills Seminar
91-PA
Early Service Experiences Provide Immediate and Long-Term Impact on Civic Participation
92-PA
Student Staff Roles in a First-Year Experience Living/Learning Center
95-PA
Measuring Student Satisfaction at the End of the First Semester
98-PA
Mentoring First-Year Students
104-PA
Meeting First-Year Students Through Their Work
107-PA
Attendance Problems in Learning Communities and Other First-Year Courses: The Administrative Withdrawal Policy at IUPUI
113-PR
Identifying Barriers to Success: Parent Perceptions of First-Year Students’ Transition Problems
114-PA
“Devils After Dark”: Late Night Programming for First-Year Students
117-PA
UCC 101: Innovations and Best Practices
118-PR
The College Experience of First-Generation Students
119-PA
Don't Try This at Home: Student Involvement in Learning Communities
123-PA
Laying the Foundation for Lifelong Learning and Community in the First-Year Program
128-CT
From Contemplation to Commitment: Framing the First-Year Service-Learning Experience
130-CT
Exploring Current Trends in First-Year Seminars: The Dilemma of Fitting It All In
133-CA
Engaging First-Year Students for an EPICS Adventure
139-CA
An Institutional Initiative: Using Assessment to Build Stronger and Better Programs in Reading, English, and Math
143-CA
Instructing the Instructors: A Three-Pronged Approach to FYE Course Instructor Training
144-CA
New Ways of Looking at Majors: Activities for Undecided First-Year Students
146-CT
The Importance of Student Financial Literacy in First-Year Planning
149-CA
Math is Not a Four-Letter Word
151-CA
Access to College Excellence (ACE): A Learning Community/Seminar Hybrid
152-CR
Adjusting to the First Year of College: A Reflection on the Importance of Parental, Peer, and Institutional Support
154-RD
Integrating Advisement Into New Student Orientation Courses
156-CT
Lessons Learned
161-CA
Coaching First-Year Students to Success: Helping Students Transition Their Study Skills from High School to College
162-CR
Ensuring Academically Successful African American Males
163-CT
Regularly Scheduled Maintenance: Not Letting a Good Six-Year-Old Seminar Fall Into Disrepair
164-RD
Starting a Statewide Conversation
165-CA
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Creating a Custom Reader for Your First-Year Seminar
170-RD
Connecting Large Campuses for First-Year Students
171-CT
STOMP: On-Line "Edu-tainment" Modules for First-Year Students
175-CA
"A Call to Honor": A Ceremony to Deepen First-Year Students' Commitment to Integrity
176-CR
“Freshmen 15”: A Program to Establish Healthy Behaviors
177-CT
Enhancing Academic Resiliency
179-CA
Building a First-Year Experience (FOCUS) and Seminar at UW-Green Bay
184-CA
Peer Coaching as an Approach to Urban Retention
187-CT
First-Year Experiences Focused on Intentional Learning and Decision-Making
192-CA
An Academic and Student Affairs Partnership for First-Year Student Success
194-CA
Learning Communities Make a Difference at Ohio University
195-CA
Framework for Successful Centralized First-Year and Learning Assistance Services
196-CT
Information Competence as Festival: Working with a First-Year Experience Librarian
199-CT
Transformation: Reinventing the First-Year Seminar
200-CT
Establishing a Structured Framework for Student Academic Success
204-CA
Creating and Promoting a Student Success Center: A Campus-Wide Initiative
205-CT
Laying a Foundation During the First-Year Experience for Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism
208-CT
Promoting the Health of Today’s First-Year College Student Through Learning Communities
209-CA
A First-Year Model for Study Abroad
210-CA
The Eagle Adventure (TEA): A Unique Approach to First-Year Adjustment and Retention
212-CA
Student Success Seminar: The Key to Student Persistence
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