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Martin, Amanda L.; Clayton, Ashley B. – College Student Affairs Journal, 2022
This article focuses on the role of theory and assessment in shaping student services and support through collaboration between student and academic affairs. Specifically, this paper highlights the use of a first-year student assessment tool that informs student support practices in the College of Agriculture at Louisiana State University (LSU).…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Student Personnel Services, College Freshmen, Agricultural Education
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Swank, Lorett; Whitton, Natasha – Journal of Faculty Development, 2019
This article focuses on techniques used in professional development to strengthen the community of faculty in FYE courses, while aiming at improving the classroom experience for today's learners, specifically those related to providing content, building community, and strengthening understanding. To provide a solid foundation, creating a course…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, First Year Seminars, Curriculum Design
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Rohli, Robert V.; Keppler, Kurt J.; Winkler, Daniel L. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2013
Previous research suggests that the far-reaching impacts of hurricanes include the academic performance of students. In an examination of such impacts, we found a trend toward self-perceived decline in some performance indicators relative to students at peer universities. However, few longitudinal impacts were found, perhaps because of the sense…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Futures (of Society), Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies
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Wischusen, Sheri M.; Wischusen, E. William; Pomarico, Steven M. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2011
The Biology Intensive Orientation for Students (BIOS) Program at Louisiana State University was designed to increase the success of incoming freshman biology majors in the first course in their major. The program combined content lectures and examinations for BIOL 1201-Introductory Biology for Science Majors, the first course in their major, as…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Biology, Freshman Composition, First Year Seminars