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Your College Experience Betsy Barefoot

Your College Experience By Betsy Barefoot

Your College Experience by Betsy Barefoot


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Combined with new coverage on mental health, resilience, and mindset, Your College Experience speaks to the real needs of today's students, helping them overcome their barriers to success and become successful students in academic communities they can call their own.

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Your College Experience: Strategies for Success by Betsy Barefoot

Inclusive learning for social belonging.
Your College Experience provides a comprehensive, trusted framework for making the crucial first year of college impactful, inclusive, and positive for all students. For this groundbreaking new edition, the book's long-acclaimed authors partnered with Macmillan Learning's DICR Editorial Board to make diversity, inclusion, and social belonging the driving forces behind every word, photo, and example. Combined with new coverage on mental health, resilience, and mindset, Your College Experience speaks to the real needs of today's students, helping them overcome their barriers to success and become successful students in academic communities they can call their own.

About Betsy Barefoot

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 codirector 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 codirector 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

Table of Contents

Part One Foundations.- Chapter 1 Thriving in College and Life.- Chapter 2 Cultivating Motivation, Resilience, and Emotional Intelligence.- Chapter 3 Time Management.- Chapter 4 How You Learn.- Part Two Preparing to Learn.- Chapter 5 Thinking in College.- Chapter 6 Reading to Learn.- Chapter 7 Getting the Most from Class.- Chapter 8 Studying.- Chapter 9 Test Taking.- Chapter 10 Information Literacy and Communication.- Part Three Preparing for Life.- Chapter 11 Majors and Careers.- Chapter 12 Relationships.- Chapter 13 Diversity.- Chapter 14 Wellness.- Chapter 15 Money.

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CIN1319200729A
9781319200725
1319200729
Your College Experience: Strategies for Success by Betsy Barefoot
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Macmillan Learning
2020-10-14
N/A
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