This volume contains a compilation of 68 abstracts by presenters from various nations at a 5-day conference on the first year college student experience. Among the topics considered were: advising and assessment programs; preparing freshmen for work, family, and private life; integrating reentry women in the college community; evaluating organizational culture; male-female differences for research and applications; Islamic education and central Asia; developing life goals; critical thinking instruction; advising for minority engineering students; leadership for social responsibility; non-technical subjects in an engineering curricula; multiculturalism in South Africa; Freshman-Year programs at 2-year colleges; realizing induction objectives; student diversity as a common denominator; and encouraging faculty involvement. Most abstracts describe programs developed at institutions represented at the conference. Those institutions were primarily from the United States but colleges and universities from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Sweden, Norway, South Africa, United Kingdom, Ireland, Latvia, and Australia were also represented. Nearly all abstracts contain addresses and telephone numbers of the presenter or of contact persons for further information. (JB)