Monograph No. 52

International Perspectives on the First-Year Experience in Higher Education
Diane Nutt and Denis Calderon, Editors

Produced in association with Teesside University, United Kingdom

Students around the globe have unique first-year experiences but struggle with many of the same challenges. This new monograph focuses on their journeys and provides insights for educators interested in learning about how institutions—from Australia to Japan, South Africa to the United Kingdom, Sweden to the United States—provide supports to students dealing with first-year transition issues.

A Faculty and Staff Guide to Creating Learning Outcomes

Jimmie Gahagan, John Dingfelder, and Katharine Pei

This guide offers a brief accessible framework for developing and assessing student learning outcomes. Ideal for use in faculty and staff development workshops, new faculty orientation programs, graduate teaching assistant training programs, program review committees and as a resource for individual instructors and committees focused on designing or refining curricular and cocurricular educational experience.

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New from Jossey-Bass and the National Resource Center

Helping Sophomores Succeed: Understanding and Improving the Second-Year Experience

Mary Stuart Hunter, Barbara F. Tobolowsky, John N. Gardner, Scott E. Evenbeck, Jerry A. Pattengale, Molly Schaller, Laurie A. Schreiner

Praise for Helping Sophomores Succeed

"Lost, lonely, stressed, pressured, unsupported, frequently indecisive, and invisible, many sophomores fall off the radar of campus educators at a time when they may most be seeking purpose, meaning, direction, intellectual challenge, and intellectual capacity building. The fine scholars who focused educators on the first-year and senior transitions have done it again—a magnificent book to focus on the sophomore year!"

- Susan R. Komives, College Student Personnel Program, University of Maryland

"For years, student-centered institutions have front-loaded resources to promote student success in the first college year. This volume is rich with instructive ideas for how to sustain this important work in the second year of college."

- George D. Kuh, Chancellor's Professor and director, Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research

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