31st Annual Conference on The First Year Experience

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Date: February 17-21, 2012
Location: San Antonio, TX

Conference Materials 

• Conference Program - Conference Program [pdf]

• Plenary Address: Charles Blaich, Center of Inquiry, Wabash College - Plenary Address [pdf]

• Keynote Address: Dewayne Matthews, Lumina Foundation - Opening Session and Keynote Address [pdf]

• A Defined Pathway: Providing the Link Between University Criteria, Course Objectives, and Assessment - Session Handouts [pdf]

• A Profile of Informaation Literacy Programs in the First-Year of College: Initial Findings from a National Survey - Session Handouts [pdf]

• A Vision of Students Today: How Does Technology Enhance Learning in FYE Courses? - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Best Practices to Enhance Reading Comprehension - Session Handouts

• Building a Comprehensive Early Warning System From the Ground Up - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Building a Comprehensive First-Year Program - Session Handouts

• Building Hope: Creating Opportunities for Motivation, Engagement, and Well-being in a Strengths-Based Freshman Seminar - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Burger Flipping or Brain Surgery: The Role of Career Development in a College Success Course - Session Handouts

• Career Self-Efficacy as a Means to Retention and Academic Success - Session Handouts

• Changing Focus to Improve the Success of Low-Income and First-Generation College Students - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Closing the Gap: Ideas for Implementing High Impact, Low Cost Faculty/Student Interactions - Session Handouts [pdf]

• College Success Online - Session Handouts

• Creating and Developing Learner-Centered Classrooms - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Creating Experiential and Interactive Assignments for Students Enrolled in First-Year Experience Courses - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Critical Learning Incidents in the Growth and Development of Peer Mentors - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Critical Thinking for Academic Success and Personal Well-Being - Session Handouts [pdf]

• CRLA International Mentor Training Program Certification: Essential Elements for Certifying Your Program and Your Mentors - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Development and Implementation of the South Dakota State University Student Success Model - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Engaging Learners Inside the Classroom: Enhancing Motivation - Session Handouts

• Entering Community College Students: Consciously Creating Critical Connections - Session Handouts

• Flourishing and Floundering Students: Implications for Identification and Engagement - Session Handouts [pdf]

• FOCUS for FYE: Online Career and Major Exploration - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Freshmores on Campus: How Early College Credit Shapes the First-Year Experience - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Full Circle: Utilizing Assessment to Guide Faculty Development Initiatives - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Gendered Differences in Advising-Related Learning Outcomes - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Implementing a Consistent, Customizable Library Session for First-Year Experience Classes at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Implementing an Early Alert System: Faculty Engagement, System Design, Resource Planning, and Assessment Issues - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Increasing Student Retention Using the MBTI® Tool - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Increasing Student Self-Confidence Through the Power of Personal Challenge, Leadership Development, and Service-Learning - Session Handouts [pdf]

• InfoPOWer: Super Librarians to the Rescue During the Transition to College - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Information Literacy and Critical Thinking: Applying Elements to Academic Research Practices in the First Year - Session Handouts

• Integrating Academic Enrichment Beyond the Classroom - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Knock, Knock...Who cares? - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Know, Be, Do: Structured Reflection in First-Year Seminars - Session Handouts

• Lights, Camera, Action! Using Vignettes to Train Academic Advisors - Session Handouts

• Major Confusion: Helping Students Navigate Through a Maze of Majors - Session Handouts [pdf]

• My Brother’s Keeper: A Success Course for African American Male Students - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Peer Teaching and Supplemental Instruction: Identifying and Correcting Poor Classroom Performance - Session Handouts

• Presentation Summaries - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Reducing Unplanned Pregnancy and Increasing Student Retention and Success - Session Handouts

• Rethinking our Learning Communities in an Era of Scarce Resources - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Running on Empty: Sustain Yourself First! Being the Healthy and Balanced Role Model That First-Year Students Need - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Spirituality, Authenticity, Wholeness, and Self-Renewal in the Academy - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Student Self-Determination and the First-Year Seminar - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Summer Bridge and Beyond: First-Year Experience Super Charged - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Supporting Undecided Students: Assessing a First-Year Seminar and Learning Communities - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Teaching Research Methods in a First-Year Critical Thinking Seminar - Session Handouts [pdf]

• The Adjustment to College Theory at East Carolina University - Session Handouts [pdf]

• The Hope of A Nation: Is Higher Education Ready to Answer the Call? - Session Handouts [pdf]

• The Impact of Self-Efficacy and Responsibility for Learning on Academic Performance - Session Handouts [pdf]

• The Power of Experience and Reflection in Peer Mentor Training: A Model for Focused Skill Development - Session Handouts

• The Role of Noncognitive Factors and the First-Year Seminar - Session Handouts [pdf]

• The Science of Motivation: Using Research and Theory to Influence Student Learning - Session Handouts

• The Study Skills Handbook - A New Approach to Active Learning for First-Year Students and Beyond - Session Handouts [pdf]

• The Value of Reflection: Providing Opportunities for Meaning Making Throughout the Peer Educator Experience - Session Handouts

• Understanding the Community in “Learning Community”: A Study of Social Networks in LEAP Classes - Session Handouts [pdf]

• Using High-Engagement Strategies in First-Year Courses Where Students Thrive - Session Handouts

• Using Peer Reviewed Research to Teach Reading, Critical Thinking, and Information Literacy in the First-Year Seminar - Session Handouts

• Using The Foundations of Excellence Process: Results of the Wabash National Study and Institutional Assessment to Keep Students on the Path to Graduation - Session Handouts [pdf]

• What Does it all Mean?: A Conversation on Students’ Spiritual Development - Session Handouts