Session Handouts
20th International Conference on The First-Year Experience
July 9-12, 2007
Hawaii’s Big Island, Hawaii
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3-CI
Developing a Service-Based Leadership
Institute for First-Year Students: Strategies
for Retaining the Under-Challenged Student
5-CI
The Icing on the Cake: Adding Peer Leaders to Your FYE Program
7-CT
Teaching Intercultural Understanding
and Skills During the First Year
9-CT
Developing a One-Stop Shop
to Enhance a Supportive Campus
Culture for First-Year Students
10-CT
Changing the First-Year Experience Through Academic Advising
11-CI
From Grassroots Movement
to Institutionalization: A 20-Year
Journey to First-Year Seminar
19-CT
All Together Now: Integrating
Student Support Services in First-Year
Learning Communities
21-CT
“Comm” and Stay: Creating and
Sustaining the First-Year Experience at a
Community College
23-CI
Promoting Student SUCCESS Through
Student Engagement: The Sequel
25-CT
Establishing a First-Year
Academy at Stellenbosch University
(SU), South Africa: A Comprehensive
and Strategic Institutional Project
26-CI
Project Retaining Our College
Students (ROCS) Program- A Model for
Successfully Facilitating Student Persistence
31-PA
Peer Mentoring for First-Year Students via E-mail: Implementing and Evaluating E-Mentoring
32-PA
The Successful First-Year Student:
Enhancing Academic and Social Integration
in a Supportive Learning Environment
39-PR
CCSSE Data Reveal the
Benefits of Learning Communities
for First-Year Students
42-PR
Folio Thinking for First-Year College Success & Career Maturation: Partnering the KSU Online Career Portfolios with the First-Year Seminar
43-PA
Filling the Gaps: An Early Alert
Team at a Liberal Arts College
45-PA
Student-Professor Learning
Communities: Assessment of a Program
to Improve Student Performance
and Increase Retention
47-PA
Outcomes Assessment for
Peer Assistance Programs
49-PR
The Effect of a First-Year
Seminar on Students’ Perceptions
and on Sophomore Return Rates
52-PA
Student-Involved Pre-Admission Program
54-CR
Negotiating Entry Into Communities
of Practice: Extended Degree Programme
Students’ Perceptions of Their FYE
56-CI
The Evolution of a First-Year
Experience Program: Balancing
Academic Need with Fiscal Reality
64-CI
FYEgypt ... An Experience
of Challenge and Success
74-R
Helicopter Parents: The
Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
75-R
Build It, and They Will Come. But How
Do We Keep Them There?: Discussions
on Successful Retention Strategies
76-CT
Challenges and Opportunities
of Curriculum Revision
77-CT
Changes, Challenges, Choices: Using
the MBTI With Your Millennial Students
80-CT
Lifestyle of Japanese
College Students
82-CI
First-Year Initiative: Bridging
the Academic Gap Between
High School and College
85-CT
Can Social Computing Networks be
Used to Engage and Retain Students?
86-CI
Looking at Retention ‘From Both
Sides Now’: Working With Students and
Faculty to Address Student Retention
87-CT
Summit Base Camp: An Innovative
Community College FYE Collaboration
between Faculty and Student Services
93-CT
Accreditation and the
First-Year Experience
97-CR
From Retention to Academic Success:
Using First-Year Seminars as a Catalyst
for Success in the First Year of College
98-CT
Minding their i’s and e’s: The use of
iPods and ePortfolios to Engage First-Year
Students with Emerging Technologies
99-CR
“We Go Together”: Discipline-
Based Learning Community Leads to
Positive Developments for Students
100-CR
A First-Year Seminar for Diverse
Students: Lasting Effects or Soon Forgotten?
105-CI
A National Approach to Quality
Enhancement of the First-Year
Experience: Scotland as a Case Study
108-R
Inspiring First-Year Student Writing
118-CR
Students in Transition: Articulation,
Expectations, and Attrition
119-CT
Problem Sets as Opportunities
for Growth in Students and
Institutions: College Success 101
121-CT
Learning Communities and
Model Citizenship Initiatives at the
University of Alabama at Birmingham
123-CI
Use of Multiple Interventions to
Increase Retention in the First Year
126-CR
Are Non-First-Generation Students Successful?: A Case of Japanese College Students
131-CI
The Successful First-Year Student:
Enhancing Academic and Social Integration
in a Supportive Learning Environment
132-CT
Interventions for Under-Prepared
First-Year Students at a Four-Year University
133-R
Challenges and Opportunities:
First-Year Experience (FYE) Programs at
Community and Technical Colleges
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