Your College Experience

Strategies for Success

Betsy O. Barefoot, John N. Gardner

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Bedford/Saint Martin's
10 October 2015

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Written by the leading authorities on the first-year seminar and grounded in research, Your College Experience by John Gardner and Betsy Barefoot offers today's diverse students the practical help they need to make the transition to college and get the most out of their time there.

While maintaining its hallmark theme of goal setting, the new edition provides practical strategies across all topics of the book to help students be successful from the start. The book features a fresh new design and a strong new emphasis on the ten research-based High Impact Practices suggested by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Chapters on Emotional Intelligence, Thinking, and Wellness have all been thoroughly updated with tools and strategies students use on campus right now and the book features a fresh, new design.

A full package of instructional support materials-including an Instructor's Annotated Edition, Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint slides, videos, and a Test Bank-provides new and experienced instructors all the tools they will need to engage students in this course and increase student retention.

By: Betsy O. Barefoot, John N. Gardner
Imprint: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 12nd ed. 2016
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 748g
ISBN: 9781457699665
ISBN 10: 1457699664
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 10 October 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Replaced By: 9781319068301
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John N. Gardner brings unparalleled experience to students as an author. The recipient of his institution's highest award for teaching excellence, John has over forty years of experience directing and teaching in the most widely emulated first-year seminar in the country, the University 101 course at the University of South Carolina (USC), Columbia. John is universally recognized as one of the country's leading educators for his role in initiating and orchestrating an international reform movement to improve the beginning college experience, a concept he coined as the first-year experience. He is the founding executive director of the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at USC, as well as the Policy Center on the First Year of College and the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education (www.jngi.org), both based in Brevard, N.C. Betsy O. Barefoot is a writer, researcher, and teacher whose special area of scholarship is the first-year seminar. During her tenure at USC from 1988 to 1999, she served as co-director for research and publications at the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. She also taught University 101 and graduate courses on the first-year experience and the principles of college teaching. She conducts first-year seminar faculty training workshops around the world and is frequently called on to evaluate first-year seminar outcomes. Betsy is co-director and senior scholar in the Policy Center on the First Year of College and Vice President of the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education both in Brevard, N.C. In her Policy Center role she led a major national research project to identify institutions of excellence in the first college year. She currently works with both two- and four-year campuses in evaluating all components of the first year