Building Synergy for High-Impact Educational Initiatives

First-Year Seminars and Learning Communities

Janine Graziano, Lauren Chism Schmidt

• Publisher: National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781942072133
• Topic: Didattica
• Subtopic: Istruzione superiore

Published in partnership with the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education First-year seminars and learning communities are two of the most commonly offered high-impact practices on U.S. campuses. The goals of these initiatives are similar: helping students make connections to faculty and other students, improving academic performance, and increasing persistence and graduation. As such, it is not surprising that many institutions choose to embed first-year seminars in learning communities. This volume explores the merger of these two high-impact practices. In particular, it offers insight into how institutions connect them and the impact of those combined structures on student learning and success. In addition to chapters highlighting strategies for designing, teaching in, and assessing combined programs, case studies offer practical insights into the structures of these programs in a variety of campus settings.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Table of Contents
• Tables and Figures
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part I: Rationale for and Implementation of Combined Programs
• Part II: Contexts for Implementation: Models From Two- and Four-Year Institutions
• Conclusion
• Index
• About the Contributors