Full Description
The First Generation Experience is the only college success book written specifically to serve first generation students. It is for students who need 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.
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: RelationshipsChapter 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
