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Launching the first-year experience movement : the founder's journey / John N. Gardner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gardner, John N., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardner, John N.
- College teachers--United States--Biography.
- College teachers.
- College administrators--United States--Biography.
- College administrators.
- College student development programs--United States--History.
- College student development programs.
- College freshmen--United States.
- College freshmen.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Sterling, Virginia : Stylus, [2023]
- Contents:
- Prologue: Reflections during the pandemic
- The all-important first year of college
- The second year of college : continuing recovery from the first year
- The third year of college : making some successful decisions
- The senior year capstone experience
- Interlude: Graduate school : even the military would be better than this
- I should have paid the Air Force
- Becoming an involuntary college educator and discovering my calling
- MY first full-time teaching position : learning from it, losing it, and moving on
- On reinventing the beginning year of college : my real life's work in the first-year experience
- Evolution of university 101 : major developments and research outcomes
- The conferences on the freshman year experience AND a transformative national movement : the first-year experience
- Other contributing factors to the national and international first-year experience movement
- Another important transition : moving the annual FYE conference (and ultimately its founder) out of South Carolina
- 20-plus years of new work this time from North Carolina and a new organization home.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Gardner, John N. Launching the first-year experience movement
- ISBN:
- 9781642674958
- 1642674958
- 9781642674941
- 164267494X
- Publisher Number:
- 40032170338
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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