Summer 2006, Vol. 8, No. 3

Successful Transitions to College Through First- Year Programs

This issue features first-year programs that are designed to facilitate positive transitions for students into higher education and foster more intentional learning through intensive seminars and faculty contact, mentoring programs, and cocurricular activities.

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CONTENTS:

From the Editor

ANALYSIS

Fostering Student Learning and Success through First-Year Programs
Mary Stuart Hunter

Creating Common Ground: Common Reading and the
First Year of College
Michael Ferguson

PRACTICE

Evaluating Quality of Engagement in Hampshire College’s
First-Year Plan
Steven Weisler and Carol Trosset

Frontiers of Science and the Core Curriculum of Columbia College
Darcy Kelley

From “My Course” to “Our Program”: Collective Responsibility for First-Year Student Success
Scott Evenbeck and Sharon Hamilton

Why Teaching First-Year Students Is Rewarding for Everyone
Catherine F. Andersen

Intertwining College with Real Life: The Community College
First-Year Experience
Renee Cornell and Mary Lou Mosley

RESEARCH

First-Year Seminars Increase Persistence and Retention:
A Summary of the Evidence from How College Affects Students
Kathleen Goodman and Ernest T. Pascarella

REALITY CHECK

My Son, the Reader: One Story of What Can Happen in the
First Year of College
Cheryl B. Torsney

First-Year Reflections
Carol Sun

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