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Books
(comments provided by Professor Alan Kalish, Director
of Faculty Development, The Ohio State University )
New
book that focuses on the under-prepared student:
McCabe, Robert, (2003), Yes We Can!
League for Innovation and the American Association of
Community Colleges.
This book stresses development of under-prepared students.
The author writes, "For community colleges, helping
the underprepared achieve may be the most important contribution
community colleges can make to the country."
Thirty examples of effective program and practice are
presented. Go to http://leaguestore.sureshopping.com/
for more
information
or to order it.
Biaocco, S. and DeWaters, (1998). Successful college
teaching. Needham Heights., MA: Allyn & Bacon.
This
book is full of substantive readings on a wide variety
of teaching and learning issues. Highly recommended. Particularly
relevant for the Realizing Student Potential Conference
are chapters 1, 7, and 8.
Howe,
N. and Strauss, W. (2000). Millennials rising: The
next great generation. Elk Grove, CA: Vintage Books.
Ohio State University Faculty Development Director, Professor
Alan Kalish, offers this review: "Good on who this
generation is culturally, but not about teaching at all."
Teaching in an age of accountability.
(2002). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon. Professor
Kalish notes, "Richard Lyons' Chapter 3 is excellent
and up-to-date on demographics and cultural values."
Levine, A.. and Cureton, J. (2001). When hope and
fear collide: A portrait of today's college student.
San Fransisco: Jossey-Bass . Kalish notes, "A good,
research based portrait of the students of the 1990s."
Light,
R. (2001). Making
the most of college: Students speak their minds. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press. "Very
good on connnecting with students, but based on Light's
experiences at Harvard, so it suffers a bit from the "it's
not like that here" problem.
Leamnson,
R. (1999). Thinking about teaching and learning: Developing
Habits of learning with first-year college and university
students. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing. "Fairly
good on learning and teaching from a psycho-biology, brain-based-approach."
From Change Magazine:
The Magazine of Higher Education published
by AAHE.
The March/April 2003 issue contains three articles of
relevance to realizing student potential.
The Face of the Future: Engaging
in Diversity at LaGuardia Community College presents
information about the on-going transformation of the typical
undergraduate student profile and "how diversity
has inspired innovations that create community and stimulate
faculty introspection."
Focusing on What Matters examines "public
policy issues facing the U.S.--changing demographics,
uneven wealth distribution, and globalization require
colleges and universities to rethink what they do and
how they organize themselves to do it."
Resource Review: "Supporting the
New Students in Higher Education Today" contains
a relevant and current bibliography on this topic.
On the Web
Financial Implications of Under-prepared Students
are addressed in "College Prep: Who Should Pay?"
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%7E53%7E1296777%7E,00.html
-Denver Post
One in four recent Colorado high school graduates who
go to a state
college are ill-prepared when they arrive, and higher
education
officials are questioning whether school districts should
pick up the
$20 million annual tab for getting the students up to
speed.
The
16th International Conference on the First-Year Experience
The conference itself lends to a wide variety
of subjects. Possible topics for concurrent, poster, and
roundtable session contributions are listed below. The
suggestions are neither inclusive nor restrictive.
http://www.sc.edu/fye/conferences/international/index.html
Mindset of First-year Students Born in 1984
For a mind-opening view of the mindset of a newly-graduated
high school student entering our campuses for the first
time. Written for Beloit College faculty, this list may
apply to our MnSCU students who were born in 1984. This
informative list may remind us of how different are today's
new college students' frames of reference from those students
we taught only a few years ago. http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/releases/mindset_2006.html
Essential Demographics of Today's College Students
Originally published in 1998, in AAHE-Bulletin, vol. 51,
no. 3, November 1998, this informative article entitled
"Essential Demographics of Today's College Students"
is well worth reading with much of the information still
relevant in 2003. Contains a valuable reference section
at the end of the article. http://www.emporia.edu/tec/tchid08.htm
For
more information on who is the new college student,
visit http://www.campus-clients.com/Audience/audience.html
Do
Colleges Coddle Students?
A
NEW QUESTION IN COLLOQUY: Are
important academic values being sacrificed to the goal
of keeping students happy? SEE http://chronicle.com/colloquy
Threshold of Change -- Minnesota Private College
Review
The first page of this article that was published in July
2002 by the Minnesota Private College Review
contains demographic data collected in Minnesota by the
U.S. Census Bureau. http://www.mnprivatecolleges.com/binaries/review_0702.pdf
The
Urban Teacher Partnership: A University/School District
Collaboration
http://www.ed.gov/inits/teachers/exemplarypractices/d-4.html
The
National Conference on Teacher Quality - Mentoring New
Teachers Web site contains this article discussing the
exemplary practices imbedded in a newly developed teacher
education programs in the College of Education at UNLV.
The New Student Generation: Are We Ready? Do We Care?
http://www.dehne.com/news_research/research_new_student.html
This article addresses questions such as Why are college
students so literal? Why has the major field become so
important to this generation of students? What motivates
young people? Do our admissions materials have an impact?
Colloquy
Live: an online discussion on why college students write
so poorly and what colleges can do about it.
Here's the link to a pretty involved article on the topic:
http://chronicle.com/colloquylive
The
Course for the Underprepared Student: Which of the
Two is Really More Underprepared?
Discusses teaching implications of the lack of adequate
preparation of students entering an introductory physics
sequence. http://www.sewanee.edu/physics/TAAPT/Basic_Physics.html
Strategies
for Encouraging the Success for All Students
Linda G. Seward's book chapter, "A Time
for Inclusion: Strategies for Encouraging the Success
for All Students," is in Included in Communication:
Learning Climates that Cultivate Racial and Ethnic
Diversity (2002), Judith Trent, editor, and is
available through AAHE at http://www.aahe.org/catalog/
Creating
a Campus Culture for Learning
This article explores strategies that Moraine
Valley Community College uses to achieve a common
understanding and language of what it means to be
a learning-centered institution.
http://www.moraine.cc.il.us/Vanguard/solutions/creating.htm
Taking
Responsibility for Student Learning
Alverno College shares its strategies for
successful teaching and learning. The article includes
"Student Learning in the First Year and Beyond"
and "Learning in the Disciplines." http://www.nea.org/he/advo02/advo0402/feature.html
First
Year Programs:
http://www.cwru.edu/sages/lifemind.htm
Case Western Reserve University just began
(In fall 2002) a pilot program called SAGES for a
new seminar-based course structure that includes "First
Seminar," designed for first-year students. From
CSRU's Web site, "Goals are to enhance basic
intellectual skills of academic inquiry, such as critical
reading, thoughtful analysis, and written and oral
communication; to introduce basic information literacy
skills; to provide a foundation for ethical decision-making;
to encourage a global and multidisciplinary perspective
on the learning process; to facilitate faculty-student
interactions; and to provide a supportive intellectually
based common experience for first-year students at
CWRU."
http://www.ou.edu/univcoll/frprograms.htm
University of Oklahoma Web site for two freshman programs,
"Gateway to College Learning" and "Freshman
Seminars." OU's University College Freshman Programs
were recently selected as one of the nation's outstanding
programs to participate in a national benchmarking
study involving freshman experience courses.
http://www.kean.edu/~fyc
Kean University First-year Center Web site includes
a resource link for students and information on the
university's First-year Seminar. Site also contains
success and survival strategies from experienced students.
College
and Careers:
http://www.workforcestrategy.org/publications.html
contains two reports. "Building Bridges to College
and Careers: Contextualized Basic Skills" highlights
a study documenting five community colleges that have
targeted hard-to-employ adults -- training and finding
them employment. They are pioneering a new adult education
model that links basic skills, such as writing and
math, to immediate job opportunities in high-wage
fields that need workers, such as health care and
information technology. "Building a Career Pathways
Sytem" analyzes barriers to career paths for
the unemployed and working poor and describes colleges
that have overcome them.
THE
MOST SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS aimed at encouraging
high-risk young people to attend college go beyond
financial aid and often provide tutoring, offer mentors,
and involve partnerships with higher-education institutions,
a recent study suggests. SEE http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/03/2003030301n.htm
On-site
Conference Bookstore Available:
The Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, an independent bookstore,
will be selling a wide selection of books on teaching
and learning. Many selections will pertain to our
conference theme.
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