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Direct linkBethanie Pletcher – College Teaching, 2024
The purpose of this article is to describe a doctoral residency seminar course that is part of a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction degree program. Courses such as these provide new doctoral students with the necessary experiences to help them succeed in the program. This course is a venue for students to discuss the degree program, including…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, College Faculty, First Year Seminars
Steven Kramer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Online education has increased in popularity over the last few decades due to the enrollment of adult learners. Adult learners have challenges with returning to school. It is not known what resources and support faculty need to support adult learners taking online first-year experience courses (FYE). The purpose of this general descriptive…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, First Year Seminars, Adult Learning, Adult Education
Carrilyn E. Long – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In a Midwestern nonprofit, predominantly White, Catholic university, the problem was low retention of African American students after completing a first-year seminar (FYS) course. The purpose of this instrumental case study was to explore perceptions and challenges of African American college students and faculty about the required FYS course.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, African American Students, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty
Roberto Arruda – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this exploratory qualitative study was to understand the motivations and processes faculty used to design first-year undergraduate classes with international and/or intercultural content. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 7 professors at a large public university in the United States with very high…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods, Multicultural Education
Download full textRebecca Kudrna; Suzanne Tiemann; Michael Swoboda; Timothy Hanrahan – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2024
University First Year Seminar (FYS) programs are diverse in their content and pedagogy. Yet all seek to assist first-year students in the difficult college transition. The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate if grouping similar academic majors into the existing First Year Seminar (FYS) courses would improve social connectedness, use of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, First Year Seminars, School Orientation, College Freshmen
D. William Kay; Steven M. Smith; Vurain Tabvuma; Katelynn Carter-Rogers – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2024
The Saint Mary's University first-year student success program was developed by its strategic enrollment management (SEM) group to enhance support for first-year students. As an integrated program that implements student success modules into the first-year core curriculum, this initiative has proven to be effective in enhancing student engagement…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, First Year Seminars, Strategic Planning, Enrollment
Paul Dean; Franchesca V. Nestor – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
This study evaluates student and faculty experiences with an anti-racism unit added to a first-year seminar. Student attitudes about race shifted little, but gains were reported in more racially diverse classrooms and in factual information on racial inequality. A majority of students reported favorable reactions to an antiracism reading, with the…
Descriptors: Racism, Student Attitudes, Racial Attitudes, Attitude Change
