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Academic success and financial decisions : helping students make crucial choices / Jacqueline E. King -- "Decided," "undecided," and "in transition" : implications for academic advisement, career counseling, and student retention / Joe Cuseo -- First-year students : embracing thier diversity, enhancing our practice / Raechele L. Pope, Teresa A. Miklitsch, and Matthew J. Weigand -- Living, doing and thinking diversity : how does pre-college diversity experience affect first-year students' engagement with college diversity? / Biren (Ratnesh) Nagda, Patricia Gurin, and Shawnti M. Johnson -- Cognitive impacts of the first year of college / Ernest T. Pascarella -- Assessing programs and other student experiences designed to enrich the first-year experience / John H. Schuh -- Going online : promoting student success via distance learning / Christopher R. Poirier and Robert S. Feldman -- Engaging the first-year student / Joni Webb Petschauer and Cindy Wallace -- Building learning communities for first-year students / Jodi Levine Laufgraben.
摘要:The first year of college represents an enormous milestone in students' lives. Whether attending a four-year or two-year institution of higher education, living on campus or at home, or enrolled in a highly selective school or a college with an open-admissions policy, students are challenged in unique and demanding ways during their first year.
