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21st International Conference on The First-Year Experience
June 23-26, 200
Dublin, Ireland

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2-CT
Pay It Forward: The Benefits of Student Mentoring Programs for Both First-Year Students and Mentors

5-CI
The Birth, Growth, and Maturation of a First-Year Program

6-CT
Engaging Students: Integrating Service-Learning into First-Year Experiences

7-CT
Supplemental Instruction (SI): A Valuable Component of First-Year Programming

10-CR
Student Learning Communities, The Student Experience, and the Institutional Value Proposition: A Research-Led First-Year Experience Strategy

11-R
Parents: Playing a Positive Role with First-Year Students

12-CT
What’s Unique about the Irish First-Year Experience?

13-CT
Challenges Faced By Academic Advisors: Understanding and Serving the Millennial Student

14-CI
Preparing Faculty for an FYE Class: An Examination of a Successful Faculty Training Program

15-CR
Dashed on First-Semester Rocks: The Consequences and Interventions for First-Year Students who Academically Sink

18-CR
Using the Wellness Model to Better Understand and Help First-Year Students Succeed

27-R
The Starry Dynamo in the Machinery of Night: Liberal Arts and Libraries in a Digitized World

37-CT
Using Data: New Mission, New Goals, New Syllabus

39-CT
Course Renewal and Revitalization in the First-Year Seminar

40-CT
Creating a Landing Strip for Helicopter Parents

42-CI
Retention Initiatives at York University: From the Local to the Pan-University

43-R
Using Faculty Development to Improve Learning in First-Year Living-Learning Communities

45-CI
Alleviating Library Anxiety in First-Year Students

47-CI
The Summer Bridge Program: A Successful Intervention Model for First-Year Students

48-CI
Privileging the Student Learning Journey: The Promotion of “Character” and its Relationship to Retention in Higher Education

52-CI
Guiding Lights: Enhancing Retention Through Student Support and Student Ambassadors

53-CI
Melvin W. Jones Scholars: A Learning Community that is a Living Legacy

54-CI
Peer Mentoring: Making a Good Idea Better through Innovation and Assessment

57-CI
Connecting the Dots: Assessing Welcome Week using Student Learning and Development Outcomes

59-R
Information Literacy and Strategies for Implementing Leaning Outcomes

60-CI
Assessing Whittier College’s Collaborative First Year Program

61-CI
Early Assessment: Using a University-wide Student Support Initiative to Effect Real Change

64-CI
Readership Ambassadors: Connecting the Common Reader Program with Study Abroad

67-PA
First Things First: An Exploration Into the Meaning of Mentoring

69-PA
A “Toolkit” for Dialogue in the First-Year Experience

70-PA
Educating for Social Justice in the First Year

71-PA
Keys to Success

72-PA
Roadmap to Success

74-PA
A Peer-Mentor Program: From Pilot Program to Profound Impact

81-CI
Part-time Teachers as the Driving Force of Core Courses

83-CI
Turning the Revolving Door into the Staircase of Academic Success for Basic Skills Students

85-CT
Shared Voices: Writing Circles, Student Profiles, and Student-Led Conferences as Paths to First-Year Student Success

87-CR
Maximizing the Impact of a Student Retention Plan: The Effective Use of Attrition Data

88-CI
Reflections on the First Year of Implementation of an Institution-Wide First-Year Academy Initiative: Highlights and Challenges

89-CI
Personal and Academic Support System (PASS) in the School of Life Sciences: An Integrated Approach to Student Support Within an Academic School

93-CR
The Highs and Lows of Emotional Well-Being for the First-Year Student: Trends, Issues, and Solutions

99-CI
Assessment and a Model Program for Successfully Facilitating Students’ Persistence

100-CR
Finding the Calm in the Storm: Addressing Retention Issues Through an Understanding of ‘At-Risk’ First-Year Students’ Metaphors of Survival

106-CT
Reversing the Trend: A Learning Module to Combat the Rise in Plagiarism

109-CI
Implementing a Common Reader Program on Your Campus: 10 Years of Insights

113-CT
Working with First-Year Students with Mental Health Issues: Best Practices

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