Institute on Developing and Sustaining First-Year Seminars

The Institute on Developing and Sustaining First-Year Seminars is designed to provide those charged with the task of delivering a successful first-year seminar with valuable information, fresh ideas, and some much-needed inspiration.

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Registration Deadline: May 30, 2019

Note: To receive the discounted rate for multiple participants from the same institution, the participants must be registered in the same transaction.

Institute faculty will build a framework where participants can engage in discussions with colleagues, examine trends and practices connected to first-year seminars, and identify new strategies to ensure the success of first-year students.

Individual sessions have been designed to build on one another so that participants leave with a personalized action plan for use on their home campuses. Modeling the active pedagogies we advocate for our classrooms, the institute faculty employ group work, problem solving, case studies, and other strategies to engage participants in learning.

We at the National Resource Center firmly believe that participants will find this institute to be a rich and rewarding experience, whether their first-year program is in its first year or its 30th.

Focused Topics

History and status of first-year seminars
Institutionalizing and sustaining first-year seminars
Assessing first-year seminars
Implementing change as a result of assessment
Establishing valuable partnerships across campus
Practices to recruit, train, and retain faculty
Focused teaching strategies

Institute Faculty to Include

Stephanie Foote, The John N. Gardner Institute for Undergraduate Excellence
Dan Friedman, University of South Carolina
Brad Garner, Indiana Wesleyan University
Jennifer Keup, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
Julie McLaughlin, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
Nirmal Trivedi, Kennesaw State University

Questions

If you have any questions about the content or organization of this event, please contact the Conferences staff at fyeconf@mailbox.sc.edu.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations on or before May 30, 2019, will have the registration fee refunded less a $100 administrative fee. A written request for refunds is required. Absolutely no refunds will be made after May 30, 2019. Please email your written request to fyeconf@mailbox.sc.edu. In order to guarantee your registration to the institute, your fee payment must be in our office no later than May 30, 2019.