Since its founding in 1986, the National Resource Center has published resources exploring the learning, success, and development of college students in transition, including a peer-reviewed journal, newsletters, scholarly practice books, and research reports and guides.
The National Resource Center is proud to offer a variety of open access publications for first-year experience and students in transition professionals.
The National Survey on The First-Year Experience examines the landscape of the FYE, focusing on institutional structures, both curricular and co-curricular, that are meant to support student success in the transition to college and the first year. This report takes a new, serialized form, with each issue focused on key topics in the first-year experience.
HBCUs are more than places of learning; they are sites of belonging, cultural affirmation, and intergenerational excellence. This volume brings together nearly thirty contributors who illuminate how contemporary HBCU educators are challenging conventional academic paradigms, designing culturally relevant curricula, and developing holistic student support frameworks to meet the diverse and evolving needs of today's learners.
We are committed to producing high-quality publications for scholars and practitioners interested in the first-year experience and students in transition. To that end, all manuscripts are subjected to editorial and peer review prior to acceptance for publication.
The core commitments that guide the larger work of the National Resource Center inform our approach as a small academic press. In particular, three of these values are central to our publishing efforts:
We believe that good practice in higher education must rely on a foundation of high-quality research. Conversely, good research draws from and informs practice. As such, the work of the National Resource Center advances and supports both scholarly practice and applied research.
We strive to create a supportive and professional environment where a diversity of viewpoints are recognized and considered in the ongoing dialogue on student transitions.
We support a climate of intellectual curiosity. We desire to provide the tools and media to pursue professional development and an ongoing process of inquiry, exploration, creativity, and discovery.
The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition is committed to making high-quality resource materials available to higher educators around the world. Under certain circumstances, we allow limited reprints of our published materials. Requests for reprints may not exceed 10% of the content of a book or guide or more than one article from an issue of a periodical. Send a request including the complete citation of the material to be reproduced (with inclusive page numbers), the purpose for which the material is being reproduced, and the method of dissemination to fye@mailbox.sc.edu.
The First-Year Experience® is a service mark of the University of South Carolina. A license may be granted upon written request to use the term The First-Year Experience in association with educational programmatic approaches to enhance the first college year. This license is not transferable without written approval of the University of South Carolina. Send requests for permissions to Dr. Kate Lehman, Executive Director of the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, at kl86@mailbox.sc.edu.