28th Annual Conference on The First Year Experience

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Date: February 6-10, 2009
Location: Orlando, FL

Conference Materials 

• Conference Program - Conference Program [pdf]

• Plenary Address - Linda J. Sax The Gender Gap in the First College Year and Beyond - Opening Session and Keynote Address

• A First-Course Experience for the Online Adult Learner: The Excelsior Model - Session Handouts [pdf]

• A First-Year Seminar That Counts: Incorporating Seminars Into the General Education Curriculum - Session Handouts [pdf]

• A Huge Success: How to Bridge the Gap Between Academic and Residential First-Year Programs - Session Handouts [pdf]

• A Multi-Campus Study of the Perceived Effects of First-Year Seminars on the Experience of Students in Their First Semester of College - Session Handouts [pdf]

• A New FYE Approach For Millennials - Session Handouts [pdf]

• A Sampling of Library Instruction Ideas for First-Year Students - Session Handouts [pdf]

• A Sampling of Library Instruction Ideas for First-Year Students - Session Handouts [pdf]

• A Twist on Summer Bridge - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Academic Coaching: An Integral Component of the First-Year Experience - Session Handouts

• Advocating for Students, a Glimpse Into the Process - Session Handouts [pdf]

• An Examination of First-Year Students' Vocational Interest Patterns - Session Handouts [pdf]

• An FYE Program Model for Community College Students - Session Handouts

• Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in a First-Year Transition Course for SACS Accreditation - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Assessment and Implementation of a Successful Comprehensive First-Year Experience Program - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Building Student Team Skills, Inclusion, and Diversity Appreciation - Simultaneously - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Celebrating the END of First Year - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Choices: A Unique Approach to Alcohol Education - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Developing an Online Community Site to Infuse Diversity Into a First-Year Enrichment Program: Successes and Challenges - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Developmental Learning Communities: Fostering Success in the Community College - Session Handouts

• Dispelling Myths and Confirming Realities of Today’s First-Year Students: A Look at the Data - Session Handouts

• Dreaming of the Perfect Student Staff: A Look at FYE Student Leader Recruitment, Selection, and Training - Session Handouts

• Enhancing Learning Outcomes for First-Year Geography Students - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Establishing Student Participation and Campus Collaboration for a New First-Year Portfolio Development Program - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Extending the Family: Developing a Family Association - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Faculty Making a Difference: Improving Retention Through Collaboration and Research - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Finding Success and Navigating Growing Pains: The Transition to an Academically Focused First-Year Seminar - Session Handouts [pdf]

• First Contact: The New Student Meeting at the University of Iowa - Session Handouts

• First-Year Interest Groups: The Solid Foundation to a Successful College Career - Session Handouts [pdf]

• First-Year Students’ Library Fear Deconstructed - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Focus Up Front: Engaging Entering Students - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Fostering Critical Thinking through Discussion and Journals - Session Handouts [pdf]

• FYE Career Project: Myth Busters - Session Handouts [pdf]

• FYE Online – Making Two Transitions - Session Handouts

• FYE Web Site 3.1: Revising for Inclusion - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Getting to Know You: Partnering With the Library To Create Life-Long Learners - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Habitudes: The Habits and Attitudes of a First-Year Student - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Help I’m Failing and I Can’t Get Up: From Suspension to Success - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Implementation of a New Learning Outcome-Based Undergraduate Curriculum: The Role of the First-Year Introduction to Business Course - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Improving the First College Year: Areas of Focus - Session Handouts

• Learning Communities for Undecided Students: Required or not? Absolutely Required! - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Living Simply: Lessons from a First-Year Learning Community - Session Handouts

• Meeting the First-Year Seminar Requirement with an Online Option - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Millennials as Mentors - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Modular Delivery and Supplemental Instruction (SI) for the Calculus Course - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Northern Kentucky University’s Book Connection: A Decade of Discovery - Session Handouts

• Online Summer Peer Mentoring: Keeping the Connection from Orientation to Welcome Week - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Optimizing and Automating Your Center Services & Data - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Orientation 101 ~ The National Orientation Directors Association - Session Handouts

• Partnerships to First-Year Reading Successes in Critical Thinking and Civic Engagement - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Preparing Peer Mentors for Success - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Presentation Summaries - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Project Peak: A First-Year Seminar With an Adventure Twist - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Re-Aligning the First-Year Seminar with Changing Student Needs and Expectations of Higher Education - Session Handouts

• Sharing the Responsibility: A University-Wide Effort to Improve the First-Year Experience for Students at McNeese State University - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Students as Consumers of Knowledge: Are They Buying What We're Selling? - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Success by Design: Supporting the First-Year Seminar Instructor - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Supporting Students Successful Academic and Cocurricular Transition Through an Experiential and Learning-Based Orientation Program - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Teaching the Teacher: Faculty Development for First-Year Seminars - Session Handouts [pdf]

• The Application and Promise of Hierarchical Linear Models in Studying First-Year Student Programs - Session Handouts [pdf]

• The Brother to Brother Program: Helping Retain Multicultural and First-Generation Males - Session Handouts [pdf]

• The Challenges of Teaching for Engaged Citizenship in the First College Year: The Role of Cognitive-Structural Theories - Session Handouts [pdf]

• The Ever-Evolving/Always Responding First-Year Seminar - Session Handouts [pdf]

• The Evolution of a First-Year Experience Office - Session Handouts [pdf]

• The First-Year College Village: A Partnership - Session Handouts [pdf]

• The FYE at the Postmodern Multiversity - Session Handouts [pdf]

• The Impact of Pre Enrollment Programs on Incoming Students - Session Handouts [pdf]

• The Relationships Between Reasons to Attend College and Learning Community Participation - Session Handouts

• The Strengths to Succeed: Research on Strategies to Enhance Student Success in the First Year - Session Handouts [pdf]

• The Umbrella Effect: Initiating Retention Programs for an Engaged Learning Campus - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Using Clickers to Promote Active Learning at Orientation and Assess New Students’ Perceptions about Success in College - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Using Performance-Based Assessments to Promote Critical Thinking in First-Year Students - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Using the Annual Discussion Book to Promote Campus-Wide Learning Outcomes - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Whatever Happened to Class (In Class?) Civility Issues in the College Classroom - Session Handouts [pdf]

• “Big Changes in Little Packages”: Integrating Academic and Student Life Initiatives - Session Handouts [pdf]

• “Connect Four”: Games That Promote Interactive Learning - Session Handouts