Session Handouts Maryland Higher Education Retention Conference Sponsored by USA Funds In Partnership with: Maryland Higher Education Commission Policy Center on the First Year of College National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition October 31, 2005   Please choose and click on any titles that interest you. This information will automatically download to your computer. Once you have the file you will need the software that created the file to open the file. For some larger files you may also need an expander software. If you do need this software - free stuffit expander software links are provided below. for windows version computers: www.stuffit.com/win/index.html for Apple computers: www.stuffit.com/mac/index.html Keynote Address: Coasting Uphill in the Global Human Capital Economy Thomas Mortenson Looking Back to Look Forward: Understanding the Beginning College Experience as the "Foundation" of Retention John N. Gardner, Executive Director, Policy Center on the First Year of College; Senior Fellow, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, University of South Carolina What Matters in First-Year Seminars: Findings from a Multi-institutional Study Randy L. Swing, Co-Director & Senior Scholar, Policy Center on the First Year of College; Fellow, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition Excellence in the First College Year: Learning from the Exemplars Betsy O. Barefoot, Co-Director & Senior Scholar, Policy Center on the First Year of College; Fellow, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition Crucial Choices: How Students’ Financial Decisions Affect Their Academic Success Jacqueline King, Vice President, American Council on Education Foundations of Excellence® in the First College Year: Focusing on Four-Year Colleges and Universities Betsy O. Barefoot, Co-Director & Senior Scholar; & John N. Gardner, Executive Director, Policy Center on the First Year of College Foundations of Excellence® in the First College Year: Focus on Two-Year Colleges Randy L. Swing, Co-Director & Senior Scholar; & Kathleen M. Morley, Assistant Director, Policy Center on the First Year of College “Yes, No, Maybe So”: What We Know and Don’t Know about Student Retention Kathleen M. Morley, Assistant Director; & Betsy O. Barefoot, Co-Director & Senior Scholar, Policy Center on the First Year of College Strategies for Strengthening Assessment of the First College Year for Institutional Improvement Randy L. Swing, Co-Director & Senior Scholar, Policy Center on the First Year of College From Access to Success: Principles and Best Practices for Supporting Entering Minority Students Ronald H. Brown, Vice President for Student Affairs, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Scott Evenbeck, Dean of University College, Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis; Tiffany Beth McMillan, Director of Retention, Morgan State University; John N. Gardner, Moderator