VCC: First-Year

First-Year

For almost three decades, campuses have focused on first-year experience programs as a way to improve the retention and success of new college students. While excellent courses and programs exist, including first year seminars, learning communities and extensive orientations, many agree that these programs could be strengthened by working in more institutionally cohesive ways to assure the success of all students.

Deeping Students' Academic and Civic Engagement: The First College Year as Pivot was a workshop to help faculty, administrators and staff think through the needs and interests of first-year students while exploring how academic and civic engagement strategies contribute to student success

Resources

National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition
Exploring the Evidence, Vol. IV: Reporting Research on First-Year Seminars
Research on first-year seminars
Readings on The First-Year Experience
Flourishing and Student Engagement

 

Deepening Students' Academic and Civic Engagement: The First College Year as Pivot Facilitated by Edward Zlotkowski was a workshop held October 23, 2009 from at Southern Vermont College, Bennington, VT
Workshop Materials and Information