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Direct linkD. 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
Download full textHanley-Dafoe, Robyne; Bruce, Cathy – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2018
How can universities ensure that the first-year learning experiences are purposeful, personal, and transformative? This study explores challenges post-secondary institutions face in the ever-changing landscape of first-year teaching and learning. It spanned 18 months and included surveys, reflections, and an environmental scan of 92 first-year…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Surveys, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Murray, Jacqueline; Wolf, Peter – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
First-year seminar programs have been a feature on the landscape of post-secondary teaching and learning in the United States, since they first appeared in the 1880s at Boston University (Mamrick, 2005). More recently, they have begun to appear at Canadian universities. For example, first-year seminars were introduced a decade ago at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, First Year Seminars, Interdisciplinary Approach, College Faculty
