First-Generation College Experience, The

By Amy Baldwin

Published by Prentice Hall

Published Date: Feb 9, 2011

Description

The Community College Experience: First Generation Success is not like any other student success text. It is for the certain kind of student who needs a little extra attention and support to have a firm footing in the academic world.

 

It is about helping those students who have felt disenfranchised, disengaged, and disappointed by the educational system to empower themselves with the knowledge and the skills necessary to imagine and realize and new future. It is also a book about change, specifically transformation. The word itself has multiple meanings in different academic disciplines, but the idea of transformation most closely applies to the intentional process by which we help students change as individuals, as scholars, and as citizens of their communities.

Table of Contents

Preface to First Success

Introduction to Faculty

Introduction to Students

Finances First

 

Part I: Moving In

Chapter 1: You First

Chapter 2: Your College
Chapter 3: Relationships
Chapter 4: Time and Energy

 

Part II: Moving Through

Chapter 5: Learning, Thinking, and Memory

Chapter 6: Reading

Chapter 7: Listening and Note-taking

Chapter 8: Writing, Researching, and Presenting
Chapter 9: Studying and Tests
 
Part III: Moving On

Chapter 10: Stress and Health

Chapter 11: Next Semester
Chapter 12: A Career and a Life
 

Appendix A: VARK Inventory

Glossary

Index

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