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28th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience
February 6-10, 2009
Orlando, Florida

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Note: Session numbers listed are according to the conference program


5-E - Optimizing and Automating Your Center Services & Data


10-E - Improving the First College Year: Areas of Focus


12-E - Habitudes: The Habits and Attitudes of a First-Year Student


13-E - Building Student Team Skills, Inclusion, and Diversity Appreciation - Simultaneously


15-E - Orientation 101 ~ The National Orientation Directors Association


18-CR - The Strengths to Succeed: Research on Strategies to Enhance Student Success in the First Year


19-CI - Using the Annual Discussion Book to Promote Campus-Wide Learning Outcomes


30-CI - Using Performance-Based Assessments to Promote Critical Thinking in First-Year Students


31-CI - The Impact of Pre Enrollment Programs on Incoming Students


31-CI - Finding Success and Navigating Growing Pains: The Transition to an Academically Focused First-Year Seminar


37-CI - An FYE Program Model for Community College Students


41-CI - Developmental Learning Communities: Fostering Success in the Community College


43-CR - The Challenges of Teaching for Engaged Citizenship in the First College Year: The Role of Cognitive-Structural Theories


47-CI - Dreaming of the Perfect Student Staff: A Look at FYE Student Leader Recruitment, Selection, and Training


52-CI - Northern Kentucky University’s Book Connection: A Decade of Discovery


53-CI - The Brother to Brother Program: Helping Retain Multicultural and First-Generation Males


54-CT - Dispelling Myths and Confirming Realities of Today’s First-Year Students: A Look at the Data


62-CT - Whatever Happened to Class (In Class?) Civility Issues in the College Classroom


69-CI - Project Peak: A First-Year Seminar With an Adventure Twist


70-CT - A New FYE Approach For Millennials


71-CI - Millennials as Mentors


72-CI - Assessment and Implementation of a Successful Comprehensive First-Year Experience Program


73-R - Celebrating the END of First Year


76-CR - FYE Online – Making Two Transitions


CI-84 - Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in a First-Year Transition Course for SACS Accreditation


104-PR - An Examination of First-Year Students' Vocational Interest Patterns


206-PA - Meeting the First-Year Seminar Requirement with an Online Option


108-PR - Enhancing Learning Outcomes for First-Year Geography Students


110-PA - FYE Career Project: Myth Busters


111-PA - First Contact: The New Student Meeting at the University of Iowa


118-PA - Modular Delivery and Supplemental Instruction (SI) for the Calculus Course


123-PA - FYE Web Site 3.1: Revising for Inclusion


129-PA - A Twist on Summer Bridge


132-PR - First-Year Interest Groups: The Solid Foundation to a Successful College Career


133-PA - Establishing Student Participation and Campus Collaboration for a New First-Year Portfolio Development Program


135-PA - Developing an Online Community Site to Infuse Diversity Into a First-Year Enrichment Program: Successes and Challenges

137-PR - Measuring Identity in First-Year Learning Communities


141-CR - A Multi-Campus Study of the Perceived Effects of First-Year Seminars on the Experience of Students in Their First Semester of College


143-CI - Success by Design: Supporting the First-Year Seminar Instructor


144-CT - Partnerships to First-Year Reading Successes in Critical Thinking and Civic Engagement

146-CI - Academic Coaching: An Integral Component of the First-Year Experience


149-CT - “Connect Four”: Games That Promote Interactive Learning


150-CI - Preparing Peer Mentors for Success


153-R - The FYE at the Postmodern Multiversity


154-CI - The Ever-Evolving/Always Responding First-Year Seminar

156-CR - Help I’m Failing and I Can’t Get Up: From Suspension to Success


158-CR - Learning Communities for Undecided Students: Required or not? Absolutely Required!

160-CT - A Huge Success: How to Bridge the Gap Between Academic and Residential First-Year Programs


167-R - Fostering Critical Thinking through Discussion and Journals


168-CI - Using Clickers to Promote Active Learning at Orientation and Assess New Students’ Perceptions about Success in College


171-CT - A Sampling of Library Instruction Ideas for First-Year Students


171-CT - A Sampling of Library Instruction Ideas for First-Year Students

172-CI - Re-Aligning the First-Year Seminar with Changing Student Needs and Expectations of Higher Education


178- CT - The Application and Promise of Hierarchical Linear Models in Studying First-Year Student Programs


180-R - A First-Year Seminar That Counts: Incorporating Seminars Into the General Education Curriculum


182-CT - Teaching the Teacher: Faculty Development for First-Year Seminars


184-CI - A First-Course Experience for the Online Adult Learner: The Excelsior Model

185-CR - Focus Up Front: Engaging Entering Students


188-CI - Supporting Students Successful Academic and Cocurricular Transition Through an Experiential and Learning-Based Orientation Program


190-CI - Online Summer Peer Mentoring: Keeping the Connection from Orientation to Welcome Week


191-CT - First-Year Students’ Library Fear Deconstructed


198-CI - Implementation of a New Learning Outcome-Based Undergraduate Curriculum: The Role of the First-Year Introduction to Business Course


202-CI - Choices: A Unique Approach to Alcohol Education


203-CI - The First-Year College Village: A Partnership


206-R - The Evolution of a First-Year Experience Office


212-FD - Advocating for Students, a Glimpse Into the Process

221-CR - Faculty Making a Difference: Improving Retention Through Collaboration and Research


223-CI - Living Simply: Lessons from a First-Year Learning Community


227-CI - Extending the Family: Developing a Family Association


235-CI - Getting to Know You: Partnering With the Library To Create Life-Long Learners


238-CR - The Relationships Between Reasons to Attend College and Learning Community Participation


240-CT - Students as Consumers of Knowledge: Are They Buying What We're Selling?


242-CI - Sharing the Responsibility: A University-Wide Effort to Improve the First-Year Experience for Students at McNeese State University


243-CI - The Umbrella Effect: Initiating Retention Programs for an Engaged Learning Campus


252-CI - “Big Changes in Little Packages”: Integrating Academic and Student Life Initiatives

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