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We are searching for the next Editor for our Journal of The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition (term dates: January 1, 2026-December 31, 2028). Applications are due by Sunday, August 31, 2025.
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*Please note: The Journal became online only on January 1, 2025. Volume 36 Issue 2 (fall 2024) was our final printed issue.
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Current Issue
Volume 37, Number 1
In this Issue
- Keynote: Studying the College Student Experience: Reflections on a Lifetime of Questions
- Seminars Matter: Examining the Value of First-Year Seminars to Student Engagement and Belonging
- Undergraduate Student Perspectives on Failure During the Transition to Higher Education
- Understanding Two Decades of Research on First-Year Seminar Effectiveness: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis
- "The Beginning of Everything": Broadening the Scope of Military Transitions in Higher Education
- Diverse First-Year Student Reflections During the Transition to College in Fall 2020
- A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of First-Year Seminars on College Student Retention: Measuring the Volunteer Effect
Most Viewed Articles
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Investigation of the Effect of First-Year Seminars on Student Success 33(2), 65-95.
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The Thriving Campus: Creating an Environment in Which All Students Can Flourish 36(1), 9-25.
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Academic First-Year Seminar: Four-Year Retention and Graduation for All First-Time Students and Students at Additional Risk 35(1), 111-127.
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Challenge and Support for the 21st Century: A Mixed-Methods Study of College Student Success 28(2), 33-51.
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Implementing Self-Regulated Learning To Improve Academic Self-Efficacy and Learning Persistence 36(1) 113-134.
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Relationship of Online Summer Programming and Successful Transitions for First-Time College Students During (COVID)-19 36(1), 71-91.
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College Adjustment for Rural Appalachian First-Year Students 36(1), 51-70.
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Transitioning OUT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Students' Concerns in the Senior Year 33(2), 9-27.
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“A Community Built Just for Me”: Black Undergraduate Men Bridging Gaps to Community Cultural Wealth 32(1) 43-57.
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Academic Self-Efficacy, Student Performance, and Well-Being in a First-Year Seminar 33(1), 99-119.
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First-Generation College Student Achievement and the First-Year Seminar: A Quasi-Experimental Design 26(2), 51-67.