21st International Conference

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Date: June 23-26, 2008
Location: Dublin, Ireland

Conference Materials 

• Conference Program - Conference Program [pdf]

• CI-109 Implementing a Common Reader Program on Your Campus: 10 Years of Insights - Session Handouts [pdf]

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

• CI-42 Retention Initiatives at York University: From the Local to the Pan-University - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CI-45 Alleviating Library Anxiety in First-Year Students - Session Handouts

• CI-47 The Summer Bridge Program: A Successful Intervention Model for First-Year Students - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CI-48 Privileging the Student Learning Journey: The Promotion of "Character" and its Relationship to Retention in Higher Education - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CI-5 The Birth, Growth, and Maturation of a First-Year Program - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CI-52 Guiding Lights: Enhancing Retention Through Student Support and Student Ambassadors - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CI-53 Melvin W. Jones Scholars: A Learning Community That is a Living Legacy - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CI-54 Peer Mentoring: Making a Good Idea Better Through Innovation and Assessment - Session Handouts

• CI-57 Connecting the Dots: Assessing Welcome Week Using Student Learning and Development Outcomes - Session Handouts

• CI-60 Assessing Whittier College's Collaborative First-Year Program - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CI-61 Early Assessment: Using a University-Wide Student Support Initiative to Effect Real Change - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CI-64 Readership Ambassadors: Connecting the Common Reader Program with Study Abroad - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CI-81 Part-Time Teachers as the Driving Force of Core Courses - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CI-83 Turning the Revolving Door into the Staircase of Academic Success for Basic Skills Students - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CI-88 Reflections on the First Year of Implementation of an Institution-Wide First-Year Academy Initiative: Highlights and Challenges - Session Handouts [pdf]

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

• CI-99 Assessment and a Model Program for Successfully Facilitating Students' Persistence - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CR-10 Student Learning Communities, The Student Experience, and the Institutional Value Proposition: A Research-Led First-Year Experience Strategy - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CR-100 Finding the Calm in the Storm: Addressing Retention Issues Through an Understanding of 'At-Risk' First-Year Students' Metaphors of Survival - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CR-15 Dashed on First-Semester Rocks: The Consequences and Interventions for First-Year Students Who Academically Sink - Session Handouts

• CR-18 Using the Wellness Model to Better Understand and help First-Year Students Succeed - Session Handouts [pdf]

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

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

• CT-106 Reversing the Trend: A Learning Module to Combat the Rise in Plagiarism - Session Handouts [pdf]

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

• CT-12 What's Unique about Irish First-Year Experience? - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CT-13 Challenges Faced By Academic Advisors: Understanding and Serving the Millennial Student - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CT-2 Pay it Forward: The Benefits of Student Mentoring Programs for Both First-Year Students and Mentors - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CT-37 Using Data: New Mission, New Goals, New Syllabus - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CT-39 Course Renewal and Revitalization in the First-Year Seminar - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CT-40 Creating a Landing Strip for Helicopter Parents - Session Handouts [pdf]

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

• CT-7 Supplemental Instruction (SI): A Valuable Component of First-Year Programming - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CT-85 Shared Voices: Writing Circles, Student Profiles, and Student-Led Conferences as Paths to First-Year Student Success - Session Handouts [pdf]

• PA-67 First Things First: An Exploration Into the Meaning of Mentoring - Session Handouts [pdf]

• PA-69 A "Toolkit" for Dialogue in the First-Year Experience - Session Handouts

• PA-70 Educating for Social Justice in the First Year - Session Handouts

• PA-71 Keys to Success - Session Handouts [pdf]

• PA-72 Roadmap to Success - Session Handouts [pdf]

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

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

• R-43 Using Faculty Development to Improve learning in First-Year Living-Learning Communities - Session Handouts [pdf]

• R-59 Information Literacy and Strategies for Implementing Learning Outcomes - Session Handouts