Step by Step to College and Career Success - Softcover

Gardner, John N.; Jewler, A. Jerome; Barefoot, Betsy O.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312683472 ISBN 13: 9780312683474

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007

Synopsis

Pioneers in the field of student success research, Gardner and his team have produced a concise, data-driven sequel to their highly successful first edition. Step by Step to College and Career Success rests on the idea that all beginning students have a better chance of collegiate success if they are comprehensively prepared for the challenges of their crucial first year. Not only do students need to develop strong academic skills and habits, but they also must learn how to manage time, maintain health and wellness, get involved in campus and community life, and respect and appreciate diversity.

Both user-friendly and authoritatively research-based, Step By Step to College and Career Success balances theory with hands-on learning and offers students proven information and straightforward strategies that they can apply toward their success.

About this title

About the Author:

John N. Gardner brings unparalleled experience as an author. The recipient of his institution's highest award for teaching excellence, John has over 40 years of experience directing and teaching in the most widely emulated first-year seminar in the country, the University 101 course at the University of South Carolina (USC), Columbia. John is universally recognized as one of the country's leading educators for his role in initiating and orchestrating an international reform movement to improve the beginning college experience, a concept he coined as "the first-year experience." He is the founding executive director of the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at USC and of the Policy Center on the First Year of College in Brevard, North Carolina.

Jerome Jewler is a best-selling author, educator, and friend to students. A distinguished professor emeritus of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies as well as codirector of the University 101 first-year seminar at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, Jewler has guided advertising students through the creative and writing processes and has helped hundreds of new students determine their goals. As University 101 codirector, he planned and conducted training workshops for first-year seminar instructors, won a Mortar Board award for teaching excellence, and was recognized as USC advisor of the year and nationally as the Distinguished Advertising Educator in 2000.

Betsy O. Barefoot is a writer, researcher, and teacher whose special area of scholarship is the first-year seminar. During her tenure at USC from 1988 to 1999, she served as codirector for research and publications at the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. She also taught University 101 and graduate courses on the first-year experience and the principles of college teaching. She conducts first-year seminar faculty training workshops around the world and is frequently called on to evaluate first-year seminar outcomes. Betsy is codirector and senior scholar in the Policy Center on the First Year of College in Brevard, North Carolina, where she led a major national research project to identify "institutions of excellence" in the first college year.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0312683472
• ISBN 13: 9780312683474
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 152