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About Campus
ISSN 1086-4822.
Cost-$48.00 (6 issues)
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Sponsored by the American College Personnel Association, About Campus is dedicated to the idea that student learning is the responsibility of all educators on campus. Six times a year, About Campus offers an exciting and eclectic mix of articles and features—all designed to illuminate the critical issues faced by both student affairs and academic affairs staff as they work on the shared goal that brought them to the same campus in the first place: to help students learn.
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Achieving and Sustaining Institutional Excellence for the First Year of College
Betsy O. Barefoot, John N. Gardner (Editor), Marc Cutright, Libby V. Morris, Charles C. Schroeder, Stephen W. Schwartz, Michael J. Siegel, Randy L. Swing
Publication Date—2005
ISBN 0-7879-7151-0
480 pages
Cost $45.00 |
In 2002, the Policy Center on the First Year of College (supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and Lumina Foundation for Education) sponsored a project to recognize colleges and universities as "Institutions of Excellence" in their design and execution of the first year. Thirteen colleges and universities—representing a broad spectrum of campus types—were selected as exceptional institutions that place a high priority on the first-year experience. Achieving and Sustaining Excellence in the First Year of College includes case studies of each of the thirteen exemplary institutions. These studies illustrate and analyze the colleges’ best practices in teaching, assessing, and retaining first-year college students. The individual case studies offer lessons learned and have broad potential application beyond the particular type of institution represented.
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Challenging and Supporting the First-Year Student: A Handbook for Improving the First Year of College
M. Lee Upcraft, John N. Gardner, Betsy O. Barefoot & Associates
Publication Date-2004
607 pages
Cost - $65.00
ISBN - 0-7879-5968-5
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Written by top experts in the field, this comprehensive volume examines how to deal effectively with first-year college students from both a teaching and learning perspective and how best to support them outside the classroom. This practical book includes four main sections: characteristics of first-year students, academic dimensions of the first-year experience, support systems and services, and strategies for tailoring programs and services to different institutions.
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Student Success in College: Creating Conditions That Matter
George D. Kuh, Jillian Kinzie, John H. Schuh, Elizabeth J. Whitt, and Associates
Publication Date 2005
400 pages
Cost- $40.00
ISBN
0-7879-7914-7 |
Student Success in College describes policies, programs, and practices that a diverse set of institutions have used to enhance student achievement. This book clearly shows the benefits of student learning and educational effectiveness that can be realized when certain conditions are present. Based on the Documenting Effective Educational Practice (DEEP) project from the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University, this book provides concrete examples from 20 institutions that other colleges and universities can learn from and adapt to help create a success-oriented campus culture and learning environment.
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Teaching First-Year College Students
Revised and Expanded Edition of Teaching College Freshmen
Bette LaSere Erickson, Calvin B. Peters, Diane Weltner Strommer
Publication Date – 2006
304 pages
Cost - $40.00
ISBN: 0-7879-6439-5
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Teaching First-Year College Students is a thoroughly expanded and updated edition of Teaching College Freshmen, which has been a classic in the field since it was published in 1991. The book describes specific strategies and approaches for faculty who teach first-year courses. The new edition is based on the most current research on teaching and learning and incorporates information about the demographic changes that have occurred in student populations since the first edition was published. The updated strategies are designed to help first-year students make successful adjustments to both the academic and nonacademic pressures of college. The authors also help faculty understand first-year students and show how their experiences in high school have prepared—or not prepared—them for the world of higher education.
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Recently Re-Released
The Senior Year Experience: Facilitating Integration, Reflection, Closure, and Transition
John N. Gardner, Gretchen Van der Veer, and Associates
Pub Date 1997
ISBN 0-789-0927-0
351 pages
Cost - $45.00
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Gardner and associates offer strategies for ensuring that the end of the college experience is as promising as the beginning. Experts provide criteria for creating capstone courses and outline ways to improve the passage from the senior year into the workforce or graduate school.
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