Research in both education and in entrepreneurship has shown that certain attitudes, skills, and behaviors are helpful in working through problems to achieve success (Brown & Ryan, 2003; Dino, 2015; Duckworth et al, 2007; Dweck, 2009; MacCann et al., 2012; Metcalfe & Shumamura,1994; West et al., 2016). Fortunately, many of these attitudes,…

This correlational quantitative study examined faculty mindset and factors of student success in first-year seminar courses at one public university of access in the northeast United States. Participants included 46 faculty members and 840 first-year undergraduate students. From the quantitative data collected, a Pearson correlation determined…