Orientation for New Students Isn't Over

The freshmen are registered for classes and settling in their new routines -- and they've even heard a lecture or three about time management. But guess what -- the job isn't done. More and more colleges are viewing the entire first year as a crucial time for teaching students not only academic work, but how they can navigate their college years and succeed over time.

On Wednesday, September 19, at 1 p.m. Eastern, Mary Stuart Hunter, one of the leading experts on promoting success in the first year of college, will discuss:

  • Why the transition to college is so difficult for students of all ability levels.
  • What students paid attention to -- and ignored -- during their orientation week before classes.
  • The predictable phases of the first year student experience.
  • The latest research on first year student success and retention and what works (and doesn't).
  • The components of a college-wide first year program.
  • Why retention may be a misguided institutional goal.
  • How to both encourage academic success and teach important out-of-the-classroom skills.
  • What faculty can do to enhance student success and learning.
  • How to evaluate your efforts.

The conference is ideal for:

  • Student affairs professionals
  • Deans of students
  • Retention and assessment officials
  • Provosts, academic deans and department chairs
  • Any higher educator concerned about student success and learning for first year students

Mary Stuart Hunter's presentation will be followed by a session in which she'll answer questions posed by participants in the audio conference. The entire event will last one hour.

The "Orientation For New Students Isn't Over" audio conference costs $175 for a single telephone line; listen yourself or with a group around a conference table. Upon registering, you'll be e-mailed information about how to dial in. A day before the conference, we'll send you a PowerPoint that you can use to follow along with Mary Stuart Hunter’s presentation. This is an audio-only conference; you will not need to be connected to the Internet to participate.

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About the presenter:

Mary Stuart Hunter is executive director of the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, at the University of South Carolina. She lectures nationally to help colleges help their new students. She is on the national advisory boards of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, the Policy Center on the First Year of College, and the Network Addressing Collegiate Alcohol and Other Drug Issues, and she serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Learning Communities Research.

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