Session Handouts
17th International Conference on The First-Year Experience
June 14-17, 2004
Maui, Hawaii

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Session 4
Culturally Different Experiences and Student Motivation to Learn: Comparing the First Year with the Last Year

Session 5
A First-Year Seminar for International Students

Session 6
Learning Communities Iowa State University

Session 7
An Effective College Success Program: Design and Practical Exercises

Session 11
Fostering a Commitment to Multicultural Education Through First-Year Learning Communities

Session 15
The Rivier College First-Year Seminar Program: Individual and Community

Session 18
The ABC’s of an Effective First-Year Retention Program

Session 19
First Things First: Starting the Advisement and Guidance of First-Year Students by First Helping Them Develop a Sense of Life Purpose

Session 20
Foundations of Excellence: The Union of Aspiration and Assessment
AASCU Dimensions, CIC Dimensions - CPI for AASCU and CIC
Two Data Submission forms for the first and second dimensions

Session 23
The College Transition Program: Big Brother, Survivor, or Fear Factor: When Reality Hits the First Year!

Session 24
TRiO’s Success Story: All About First Year Seminar for Disadvantaged Students

Session 25
The Multicultural Competence Among Faculty and Administrators in a Predominantly White Institution

Session 26
A World of Their Own: The Fine Arts Student in Transition

Session 30
Analysis of College Student Experience in Main Universities of Korea

Session 41
A Study on the Relationship Between the Subjects in Academic Advising and the Students’ Characteristics for Understanding the Advising Needs of First-Year Students

Session 42
How to Empower Hispanic First-Year College Students with Contrastive Analysis Strategies

Session 46
Building Programs with No Money and Maintaining One’s Values

Session 50
Partnerships that Work: Demonstrating Effective Student Transitions and Success From High School to Community and Technical Colleges

Session 51
Institutional Research in the U.K. and the First-Year Experience

Session 52
Integrating Different Subjects to Ease Students’ First-Year Experience

Session 53
Partnerships with Noel-Levitz to Improve Retention

Session 60
Service-Learning and the Core Curriculum: Assessing Levels of Student Engagement in the Course, College, and Community

Session 61
The First-Year Seminar That Could: Creating a Community for Change and Transforming General Education

Session 66
Assessing The First Year Experience to Build a Student Success Culture

Session 62
Recruiting and Retaining Adult First-Year Students: A Model for Intake and Orientation

Session 69
The Other First-Year Experience

Session 71
Taking First-Year College Students Seriously in Japan

Session 74
Success with Students of Color Attending a Predominately White Institution

Session 81
Provisional First-Year Students: A Model for Student Success

Session 90
Multicultural Awareness Project for Institutional Transformation: MAP IT

Session 95
Utilization of YFCY Findings to Strengthen Retention Initiatives: Spotlight on Spirituality and Physical Activity

Session 98
Best Practices for Adult Students in the First Year

Session 99
Damaging Ads: Media Literacy and Your Campus

Session 100
Frontloading the First Year

Session 101
Freshman Faculty Forum * Engineering a Change

Session 104
The Impact of the Student Learning on Retention: What Have We Learned?

Session 105
Facilitation Strategies for Enhancing Educational Effectiveness

Session 108
Utilizing Your First-Year Orientation Course to Achieve Retention Results

Session 112
Using Problem-based Learning to Integrate
Learning Communities

Session 115
"It Takes a Village" Creative Collaborations to Optimize Student Learning & Campus Resources

Session 116
The First-Year Experience: A Stealth Approach to Institutional Transformation