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Direct linkWoolfork-Barnes, Toni – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2017
For more than 30 years, John Gardner has elevated the discussion about the importance of student success in the first-year of college, with a heightened emphasis on first-year seminar courses and their value. Many colleges and universities offer some version of a first-year experience seminar, which is true for the Midwestern MAC School discussed…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, School Holding Power, Enrollment, Enrollment Management
Kramer, Daniel Boyd; Schechter, Michael G. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2011
This article seeks to contribute to the evolving literature on the scholarship of teaching and learning. We do this by describing and then reflecting on what we have learned from a year-long freshman applied research seminar, "International Affairs Knowledge and U.S. Foreign Policy Opinions." After surveying the literature on public…
Descriptors: Scholarship, College Instruction, Learning, College Freshmen
Soldner, Laura B.; Lee, Yvonne R.; Duby, Paul B. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2004
While an expansive body of literature exists on the performance and retention of first-year students, there is a paucity of research examining the persistence and attrition of faculty who teach these seminars and colloquia. The present survey of 18 full-time, first-year seminar faculty members at Northern Michigan University identifies marked…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Teacher Persistence, Rewards, College Faculty
