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QUALITY ENHANCEMENT PLAN - Developing U-Research: Freshmen Experience/First Year Experience & IL

Designed for those aiding in the development of U-Research as MC's Quality Enhancment Plan, this guide includes information on books, articles, statistical data, and web sites dealing with information literacy (IL) and related topics.

Books on Reserve

025.5677 R643  The role of the library in the first college year / Larry L. Hardesty, editor .  Columbia, SC : National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, University of South Carolina, 2007.

378.007 F449p  Primer for research on the college student experience / Dorothy S. Fidler, Jean M. Henscheid.  Columbia, S.C. : National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, University of South Carolina, c2001.

378.12 Er44t  Teaching first-year college students / Bette LaSere Erickson, Calvin B. Peters, Diane Weltner Strommer.  San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2006.  SUMMARY

378.155 G755  Graduate students in transition : assisting students through the first year / Kenneth A. Tokuno, editor.  Columbia, SC : National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina, 2008.

378.194 Sk36s  Student development in the first college year : a primer for college educators / Tracy L. Skipper.  Columbia, S.C. : National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina, 2005.

378.194 Up1f  The freshman year experience : helping students survive and succeed in college / M. Lee Upcraft, John N. Gardner, and associates.  San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1989. 

378.198 Ac46  Achieving and sustaining institutional excellence for the first year of college / Betsy O. Barefoot ... [et al.].  San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2005.

378.198 Am35h  American freshman : national norms for fall 2008 / Higher Education Research Institute, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles ; prepared by the staff of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program.  Los Angeles : Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA, 2008.

378.198 B736p  Putting students first : how colleges develop students purposefully / Larry A. Braskamp, Lois Calian Trautvetter, Kelly Ward.  Bolton, Mass. : Anker Pub., c2006.

378.198 F519k  The first-year experience in American higher education : an annotated bibliography / Andrew K. Koch ... [et al.], editors.  Charleston : National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, University of South Carolina, c2007.

378.198 G174f  Freshman seminar instructor training : guidelines for design and implementation / John N. Gardner.  [Columbia, S.C.] : National Resource Center, c1992.   SUMMARY

378.198 P285d  A data audit and analysis toolkit to support assessment of the first college year : technical manual / Karen Paulson.  Boulder, CO : National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, 2003.

378.198 P285d CD  A data audit and analysis toolkit to support assessment of the first college year : technical manual / Karen Paulson.  Boulder, CO : National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, 2003.

378.198 P949s Proving and improving : tools and techniques for assessing the first college year / Randy L. Swing, editor.  Columbia, S.C. : National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, University of South Carolina, c2004.

378.198 T556t  2006 national survey of first-year seminars : continuing innovations in the collegiate curriculum / Barbara F. Tobolowsky & associates.  Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2008.  SUMMARY  Excerpt-Ch. 6

378.198 T687 Transforming the first-year of college for students of color / Laura I. Rendón, Mildred García, Dawn Person, editors.  Columbia : National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina, 2004. 

378.198 Up1c  Challenging and supporting the first-year student : a handbook for improving the first year of college / M. Lee Upcraft, John N. Gardner, Betsy O. Barefoot.  San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2005.   SUMMARY

796.043 G128  Gaining the competitive edge : enriching the collegiate experience of the new student-athlete / edited by Stephen Robinson.  Columbia, S.C. : National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 1999.  SUMMARY