Session Handouts
16th International Conference on The First-Year Experience
July 7-10, 2003
Vancouver, B.C. CANADA
Please choose and click on any titles that interest you. This information will automatically download to your computer. Once you have the file you will need the software that created the file to open the file. For some larger files you may also need an expander software. If you do need this software - free stuffit expander software links are provided below.
for windows version computers: www.stuffit.com/win/index.html
for Apple computers: www.stuffit.com/mac/index.html
Note: Session numbers listed are according to the conference program
Session #1
Tackling the FYE Challenge: Using Developmental Theory and Pop Culture to Engage First-Year Students
Session #2
A Toolbox to Stimulate Cognition and Metacognition
Session #3
Retention of Adult and Online Students: Why Do They Come and Why Do They Leave?
Session #6
The First Year Experience - Again
Session #7
Start Right Math
Session #9
Student Parents: How to Serve This Invisible Population
Session #12
Improving Student Engagement Through Critical Thinking
Session #13
First-Year Responders: Student Case Management at Lesley College
Session #14
Training Peer Educators Via a Credit-Bearing Course
Session #19
The Impact of Expectations and Expectation Violations on Retention and Academic Performance
Session #22
"Survivor": The First Year Experience at a Small Rural Campus
Session #23
Evolution by Trial and Error and Assessment
Session #27
Using Web-Based Technology to Enhance First-Year Programs
Session #33
A Collaborative Intake Advising Model: The Academic Department and First-Year Seminar Faculty
Session #39
Learn Locally, but Act Globally: Developing A Global Mindset in the First-Year Seminar
Session #57
Rx For Retention
Session #62
An Engineering First-Year Experience Seminar
Session #64
Helping Seeking Attitudes of International Japanese Students
Session #69
An Effective University Orientation Course
Session #71
Greater Expectations of the Library: The Role of the Academic Library in A New Vision for Learning
Session #74
Summer Academic Orientations and First-Year Student Performance
Session #78
Retention Initiatives for Undergraduate Engineering Students
Session #83
Demographic and Performance Characteristics of Online Learners
Session #84
First-Year Students' Success Indicators: Exploring Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Predictors
Session #87
Leadership, Advocacy, and Change in a Time of Limited Budgets
Session #90
Pixels, Portfolios & First-Year Success: Networking Resource Roundtable
Session #97
Interdisciplinary Collaboration & The First-Year Seminar: Theory-Driven Development and Assessment of a Learning Frameworks Course
Session #98
CAPS(Career, Academic, and Personal Success): A Multidimensional Approach to Student Success
Session #102
Building Camaraderie and Academic Excellence through the First-Year Seminar
Session #104
Even the Best Laid Plans for the First-Year Experience Go Awry
Session #109
Simple, Surprising, Useful? Three Questions for Judging Teaching Method
|
