Launching the first-year experience movement : the founder's journey /: the founder's journey. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John N. Gardner.
• Authors: Gardner, John N
• Contents: Prologue. Reflections During the PandemicAcknowledgment Introduction Part I. My Collegiate Journey 1. The All-Important First Year of College 2. The Second Year of College. Continuing Recovery from the First Year 3. The Third Year of College. Making Some Successful Decisions 4. The Senior Year Capstone Experience Interlude. Graduate School—Even the Military Would Be Better Than This Part II. My Life and Learnings in the U.S. Air Force 5. I Should Have Paid the Air Force 6. Becoming an Involuntary College Educator and Discovering My Calling Part III. Becoming Who I Am as an International Higher Education Leader 7. My First Full-Time Teaching Position. Learning from It, Losing It, and Moving On. Winthrop College for "The Fairest Flowers in the Southland" 8. On Reinventing the Beginning Year of College. My Real Life's Work in The First-Year Experience 9. Evolution of University 101. Major Developments and Research Outcomes 10. The Conferences on the Freshman Year Experience and a Transformative National Movement. The First-Year Experience 11. Other Contributing Factors to the National and International First-Year Experience Movement 12. Another Important Transition. Moving the Annual FYE Conference (and Ultimately Its Founder. Out of South Carolina 13. 20-Plus Years of New Work--This Time From North Carolina and a New Organization Home Conclusion
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (210 pages)
• Subjects: 378.12092; College student development programs -- United States -- History; College freshmen -- United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000977288
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