Integrating the first-year experience : the role of first-year seminars in learning communities / Jean M. Henscheid, editor.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Henscheid, Jean M., 1961-
• National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition (University of South Carolina)
• James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

• First-year experience monograph series ; no. 39.
• The first-year experience monograph series ; no. 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• College freshmen--United States.
• College student orientation--United States.
• College student orientation.
• College freshmen.
• United States.
• Interdisciplinary approach in education--United States.
• Interdisciplinary approach in education.

Physical Description:

viii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, SC : National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, University of South Carolina ; [Olympia, Wash.] : Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education, 2004.

Contents:

• First-year seminars in learning communities : two reforms intersect / Jean M. Henscheid
• The improved learning outcomes of linked versus stand-alone first-year seminars / Randy L. Swing
• A century of community : an integrated first year continues a long history of learning together / Joni Webb Petschauer ... [et al.]
• Placing learning communities and first-year seminars at the core of general education reform / Sally K. Murphy and Skye Gentile
• Growing learning communities at the community college / Alicia B. Harvey-Smith
• The first-year seminar, the cornerstone of an interdisciplinary learning community program / William J. Fritz and Nannette Evans Commander
• Serving students through multiple learning community models / Howard N. Shapiro
• Introducing the liberal arts through a multi-layered first-year studies program / Leslie Bessant, Diane Mockridge, and Deano Pape
• Reversing attrition rates by integrating first-year academic programs / Amanda Yale, Cathy Brinjak, and April Longwell
• Learning in and about community in a "world class" city / Jodi Levine Laufgraben
• Welcoming the first class of first-year students with an integrated experience / Glenn Blalock, Sandra S. Harper, and Andrew Piker
• Using learning communities to meet diverse student needs at a research university / Joel Nossoff and Dan Young
• The flexible first-year seminar as the centerpiece of five learning community programs / Phyllis Endicott ... [et al.]
• Building integrated learning experiences at a bi-national, commuter institution / Maggy Smith ... [et al.]
• Learning communities and integrated seminars as sites for addressing the divided self / Kathleen Byrnes, Marylu Hill, and John Immerwahr
• A learning community focused on peer-facilitated research, writing, and critical thinking / Kay Tronsen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

• 1889271470
• 9781889271477

OCLC:

56198599

Publisher Number:

99935091394

Online:

The James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund Home Page