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27th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience
February 15-19, 2008, San Francisco, California

2-E - Griffin Enterprises

The Crisis in Financial Literacy and the Need for New Approaches to Reach Digital Learners

5-E - Hayden-McNeil Publishing

Creating a Customizable Textbook: Essentials for Success

12-E - Policy Center on the First Year of College

Identifying and Assessing the Needs of New Students Through Institutional Self-Study

16-R - Iowa State University

When the First Year Really Isn’t the First Year


28-CI - University of South Carolina Aiken
Making a First-Year Reading Experience Work: A Step-By-Step Guide to Planning, Implementing, and Assessing Common Reading Programs


29-CI - Mississippi State University
Leadership Begins With Day One: A Combined Residential, Academic, and Service-Learning First-Year Community


30-CR - University of Texas at Austin
Starting Right: Focus on the Community College Front Door


31-CT - Stony Brook University
Student Affairs Professionals in the Classroom: Preparing Professionals to Teach


32-CT - Belmont University
Seemingly Unrelated Experiences: Integrating the First Year and Institutional Leaders


37-CR - University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
Faculty and Learning Communities: Motivations and Satisfactions


38-CI - Western Illinois University
FYE Courses in Different Disciplines: Where is the Consistency?


42-CR - The University of North Texas
An Assessment of the Effectiveness of the Parent Orientation Program at UNT


43-R - Curry College
Students with Learning Differences: Transition to the College Experience


44-R - Florida Community College at Jacksonville
The Stuff in the Middle: Nurturing Ability, Kindling Desire, Building Connections


51-CI - University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Catch Them if You Can: The Evolution of the Early Warning System at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro


54-CI - University of California, Davis
Residence Hall Advising Team: Bridging the Gap for First-Year Students at a Research University


62-CT - Gainesville State College
The First-Year Experience for Faculty


68-CI - Louisiana State University
The Blueprint for Welcome Week


69 - CI - Boston University
STEM STARS: Supportive Teaching and Advising Builds Relationships for Success


69-CI - Boston University
STEM STARS: Supportive Teaching and Advising Builds Relationships for Success


73-CI - West Texas A&M University
Orientation as the Cornerstone to Your FYE Programming


74-CT - California State University, Fullerton
Stress Management and Prevention With First-Year Students


82-CT - Augusta State University
Students with Learning Disabilities: An Emerging Success Story


84-CI - Saint Louis University
Integrated Academic Advising: One Campus’ Story of Restructuring Advising to Benefit First-Year Students


87-CT - University of Georgia
Engaging All Students: Implementing Universal Design in First-Year Courses and Programs


90-CI - Stanford University
Faculty Development by Stealth: Using First-Year Seminars to Enhance Undergraduate Teaching


92-CI - Wright State University
Redefining First-Year Engineering Mathematics Education at Wright State University: A Model for Increased Student Success in Engineering


94-R - California State University, Fullerton
Regional & System-Wide Partnerships: Bridging the Gap Between the Local and the National


97-CT - Policy Center on the First Year of College
Multifaceted Approaches to Improving Retention and Persistence for First-Year College Students of Color


98-CR - Georgia Southern University
Working Toward a Distinct “Pedagogy of the First Year”: What Classroom Strategies Work Best with First-Year Students?


99-CI - The University of Texas at San Antonio
Paving the Road to Success: Supporting At-Risk Students Through Academic Advising and Learning Communities


100-CI - The University of Texas at San Antonio
Phoenix: An Academic Recovery Program for First-Year Students


112-PA - Baylor University
Career Counseling as an Effective Element of First-Year Student Retention and Transition to College


118-PA - Westminster College
Connecting With the Campus: Healthy Living, Academic Expectations, and College Services


119-PA - Louisiana State University
Impact of a Short Pre-First-Year Program on Retention


121-PA - University of Cincinnati
A Collaborative Team Approach for a First-Year Seminar: Supporting Active Learning


122-PA - Iowa Western Community College
CampusCore, a TRiO Learning Community


123-PA - Georgia Southern University
Integrating Peer Advisors into Major Exploration Advisement


124-PA - University of Kentucky
Using Undergraduate Marketing Interns: Maximizing Student Awareness and Use of Academic Enhancement Services


125-PA - Coastal Carolina University
Building and Deploying Remotely Operated Vehicles in the First-Year Experience


131-PR - Sonoma State University
A Multicultural Approach to Teaching First-Year Experience: Process, Outcomes, and Reflections


135-PA - McDaniel College
Training Effective Peer Mentors


140 - PR - The University of Central Missouri
Finding That Middle Ground: Designing First-Year Experience and Learning Strategies Courses That Avoid Redundancy


142-PA - Southern Utah University
A Collaborative First-Year Experience: Student Success Personnel, Librarians, and General Education Faculty


144-PA - San Jose State University
Peer Mentors and Writing Center Tutors: What our Collaborations Taught us About Serving the SJSU First-Year Students


147-PA - Rochester Institute of Technology
Rounding the First Year: Sliding into Second


151-CI - Policy Center on the First Year of College
Correlating Changes in the First Year: Aligning Southern Oregon University’s Call for Institutional Change with National Trends


153-CI - Central Michigan University
First-Year Programs in Tight Budget Times


158-CT - University of South Carolina
Designing Educational Programs that Promote Cognitive Development and Success in the First College Year


162-CI - Babson College
Providing Effective Personal and Academic Support for a Rigorous First-Year Program


164-CI - Kutztown University
Undecided and Over- Technologized: Using an Interactive, Multimedia Approach to Better Connect with First-Year Students Exploring Majors and Careers


169-CI - Dickinson College
Teaching Academic Integrity With Audience Response Technology


171-CR - Indiana University Bloomington, Center for Postsecondary Research
Supporting the Needs of Diverse Learners: First-Year Student’s Academic Confidence and Student Engagement


172-CI - Appalachian State University
“Who me? Read a Book? During the SUMMER?”: How to Create or Improve a Successful Summer Reading Program


173-CI - Warner Pacific College
Getting Your Money’s Worth Out of the First-Year Experience


184-CI - Hofstra University
First-Year Programs and Information Literacy: Challenges and Opportunities


185-CI - University of Alabama at Birmingham
How Are We Doing? Assessment and Program Development in University 101


191-CT - Prairie View A&M University
CSI: University College: Identifying, Understanding, and Teaching the Millennial Generation


195-CI - Coastal Carolina University
Campus-Wide E-Portfolios: Introducing LiveText to the Entire First-Year Class


197-CI - University of North Carolina Wilmington
Soaring to Greatness: Initiating a Common Reading Experience


197-CI - University of North Carolina Wilmington
Soaring to Greatness: Initiating a Common Reading Experience


202-CI - Florida State University
Peer Mentors as Equal Teaching Partners


203-CI - Furman University
It’s A Two-Way Street: Student and Faculty Engagement


205-CR - University of California, Riverside
Creating Community Online: How First-Year Students (and others) Form Social Ties Online


207-CT - Southeastern Louisiana University
Getting Students to Care: Gaining Educational Investment Through a Psycho-Social Approach


210-CT - University of Wisconsin Colleges
The Equity Scorecard for the First College Year


211-CI - Elizabethtown College
Road to Success: Small College’s Approach to a Comprehensive First-Year Program


213-R - Indiana Wesleyan University
Cultivating a Classroom Community: Personhood and Strategies


215-CI - Washington State University
Community Engagement From the Halls to the Classroom: Forging Links With a Residential Learning Community


216-CR - James Madison University
Learning from Learning Community Assessment: Reflections on an Evolving Program


222-CI - University of California at Santa Barbara
The Men’s Program: A Unique Mentoring Program for First-Year Men


224-CI - San José State University
The Role of Peer Mentoring and Advising in First-Year Experience and Transfer Transition Courses


224-CI -
The Role of Peer Mentoring and Advising in First-Year Experience and Transfer Transition Courses


228-CT - Rochester Institute of Technology
Empowering Students: The Process and Impact of FYE Coaching


231-CI - Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
SMILE (Student Mentoring in Life and Education): An Inside Look at an Innovative Peer Mentoring Program at a Multi-Campus College


234-CR - California Lutheran University
Problem-Based Learning as a Method for Teaching Information Literacy


239-CI - University of Wisconsin - Parkside
First-Year Students and General Education: Issues and Questions


242-CI - DeVry University-Miramar
Standardizing the First-Year Experience in a Geographically Distributed University


246-CI - North Carolina State University
Using a Comprehensive Assessment Model in First-Year Programs to Enhance Student Success and Retention


249-CI - Florida State University
Connecting the Dots: Intentional Efforts to Build a First College Year Ethos at Suffolk University


253-CI - Ball State University
Implementing a Faculty Mentorship Program for Students With Disabilities


256-CI - Columbus State University
First-Year Convocation - Strategies for Planning, Implementing, and Assessing

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