Admissions, Orientation, and First Year Experience Resources

2007 Convention (ACPA/NASPA Joint Meeting) Highlights

• PowerPoint Presentations from Commission Sponsored Programs
  • A Strengths-Based Approach to the First-Year Experience: Evidence for Engaged Learning
  • Fact versus Fiction: The First-Year Experience as Portrayed in Literature
• Shaping the Future of Student Affairs by Listening to Community Members’ Voices

2006 Convention Highlights

• Best Practices in Orientation Roundtable
• PowerPoint Presentations from Commission Sponsored Programs
• College Life 101: Stimulating Family/Student Dialogue Around Adjustment Issues
• Freshman Interest Groups: Sophomore Students Reflect on Their FIG Experience
• Grounding the Helicopter: Training Student Leaders to Effectively Serve Families

• From the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO)
• AACRAO's Basic Guide to Enrollment Management by C. Westman and P. Bouman
• The College Recruiters' Quick Guide by AACRAO
• The SEM Anthology by multiple authors
• Essentials of Enrollment Management: Cases in the Field by J. Black & Associates

• From the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)
• The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 2005 by J.Pryor, S. Hurtado, V.B. Saenz, J.A. Lindholm, W.S. Korn & K.A. Mahoney
• The American College Teacher: National Norms for the 2004-2005 HERI Faculty Survey by J.A. Lindholm, K. Szelenyi, S. Hurtado, & W.A. Korn

• From the National Orientation Directors Association (NODA)
• Helping Your First-Year College Student Succeed: A Guide for Parents by R.H. Mullendore & C. Hatch
• Orientation Planning Manual by NODA

• From The National Resource Center on the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
• Student Development in the First College Year: A Primer for College Educators by T. Skipper
• The 2003 National Survey of First-Year Seminars: Continuing Innovations in the Collegiate Curriculum by B.F. Tobolowsky
• Designing Successful Transitions: A Guide for Orienting Students to College (2nd Ed.) by Jeannine Ward-Roof

• From The Policy Center on the First Year of College
• Challenging and Supporting the First-Year Student: A Handbook for Improving the First Year of College by M. L. Upcraft, J. N. Gardner, & B. O. Barefoot (Eds.)
• Achieving and Sustaining Institutional Excellence for the First Year of College by B.O. Barefoot et al.

• From the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Institute
• Student Success in College: Creating Conditions That Matter by G.D. Kuh, J. Kinzie, J.H. Schuh, E.J. Whitt, and Associates

• Other Recommendations from our Transitions Newsletter Book Reviews:
• Binge: What Your College Student Won’t Tell You by B. Seaman
• Fair Game? The Use of Standardized Admissions Test in Higher Education by R. Zwick
• Rethinking the SAT: The Future of Standardized Testing in University Admissions by R. Zwick

• American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO)
• National ACademic ADvising Association (NACADA)
• National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC)
• National Orientation Directors Association (NODA)
• National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition
• Policy Center on the First Year of College

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