Session Handouts
30th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience
February 4-8, 2011
Atlanta, Georgia
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E-5
Using Mind Maps to
Manage Class Notes, Transform
Studying Into Learning, and
Become a Self-Directed Learner
E-10
Student Success
Textbook/Planner: Engage
Students with Intentional
Planning and Content
E-12
Supporting
Student Success with 24/7
Online Resources
CT-14
First-Year Courses for
Undeclared Students: Using Civic
Engagement and Partners to
Enhance Quantitative Reasoning
CI-16
Supporting and
Improving Training for Peer
Mentors and Educators
CI-27
Advising Seminar:
Engaging the Mission
CR-28
Biology and Psychology:
Gateway to Neuroscience
R-29
Best Practices 2.0: Using
Online Technologies in Your Class
CI-30
Drawing on Community
Resources: Experiential
Learning as the Foundation
of a First-Year Seminar
CT-31
Using a Virtual Librarian
to Introduce Essential First-Year
Information Literacy Skills
CR-38
Eff ects of Academic
Preparation, Motivation, and
Interest-Major Congruence on
First-Year cademic Performance
and Timely Degree Attainment at
Two- and Four-Year Institutions
R-41
Engaging First-Year
Students Outside of the
First-Year Seminar Course
CR-43
Digital Narratives: Using
e-Portfolios to Assess Student
Learning in First-Year Seminar
CR-55
Promoting High-Impact
Practices: Approaches to Increase
Engagement and Expand Access
in the First Year
CI-56
Developing and
Assessing A Community College
First-Year Experience Program
CI-59
Using Peer Mentors
to Deliver Cost-Eff ective First-
Year Experience Events
CT-62
Using Workshops
to Extend Academic Skills
CT-64
Working Up Something
to Say: Sequencing Low-Stakes
Writing Assignments to Produce
a High-Stakes Project
CI-67
The Evolution of
FYE Instructor Training at
a Community College
CI-68
Supporting the Success
of High School Students
Enrolled Full-Time in College
CI-78
Undergraduate
Women in Science Program
CT-85
Getting Students to Turn
Off Digital Distractions and Tune
in to Lectures and Learning
CT-90
Access to
Comprehension: Cracking the
Code of College Reading
FD-98
Using Blackboard to
Promote a First-Year Community
PA-106
Tapping the Fountain
of Youth: Hiring Peer Instructors
to Infuse FYE Program
with Renewable Energy
PR-108
Does One-Size-Fit
All? A Segmented Analysis of
Psychosocial and Generational
Issues That Influence
Retention of Adult Learners
PA-110
Using a Case Study
to Assess Student Learning of
Principled Problem Solving
PA-112
Successful
Academic Partnerships
PR-114
Creating Meaningful Orientation Experiences: Transforming Orientation Programs at a Private Liberal Arts College for Women
PR-118
Identifying and Measuring Peer Mentor Development: A Qualitative Rubric Analysis
PA-126
FY Glee: Making the
Music Video…Without a Budget!
CT-130
Understanding and
Serving Under-Resourced
College Students
CR-131
Understanding
a Path to Graduation
CT-134
Assessment Design for
Reporting of a Two-Year College
First-Year Experience Program
CT-137
How Soon is Too
Soon? Beginning the Advising
Process Months Before<
Students Begin Classes
R-138
Electronic Portfolios
and First-Year Residential
Students: Let the Learning Begin!
CI-146
How to Make Your
Common Reading Flourish
from Beginning to Success!
R-150
Service-Learning
and the First-Year Experience:
Promoting Civic Engagement
in the First College Year
CT-154
The session title is The Plug-and-Play Potential of Online Games for Teaching Students Library Research Skills and Concepts
CI-155
How Overwhelmed
Are Today's First-Year
College Students? A Close
Look at the Data
CI-156
Incorporating
Career Development Skills
into the First-Year Seminar
CI-157
Advancing Orientation:
A Seminar-Based Approach to
Community Development
CI-159
Tablet PCs, Interactive
Teaching and Integrative
Advising Promote STEM Success
CI-160
FRACTAL: Freshman
Advising Connection for
Teaching and Learning
CR-167
Brooklyn College
Students Take on the Future
of the Gowanus Canal
CT-174
Empowering Student
Interdependence Through
Semester-Long Small Groups
CI-175
Engaging Faculty in
Shaping Academic Expectations
for First-Year Students
CR-186
Data Results from
a Longitudinal of First-Year
Students
CT-197
Keeping Students in
College: How Do we Increase
Retention Rates?
CI-201
Designing and
Implementing a Quality First-
Year Program Quickly in Tough
Economic Times
CI-213
Dawg Camp! Dawg
Camp! The Place to Be!
CI-215
Implementing
First-Year Programs at a
Research University
CI-216
Why Do First-Year
Commuter Students Struggle
With Transitioning to College?
CI-217
From the Ground Up:
Building a Solid Foundation for
New Programs & Initiatives
R-222
First-Year Advising
at Liberal Arts Colleges:
Creating Eff ective Models for Faculty/Staff Collaboration
CI-223
Enhancing the First-
Year Experience of At-Risk
Students Through Summer
Enrichment Programs
CR-224
"Jumping" Into the
First Year of College Through a
Virtual Summer Bridge Program,
Early Entrance Experience
and Academic Program
CI-228
Raising the Bar in
Student Success Courses:
Expect, Give, and Get
CI-230
Course Selection With
the Use of an Online Survey:
A Small College Initiative
CR-232
Uncommon Ideas for
Common Reading Programs
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