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Strategies for SuccessThirteenth Edition| ©2018New Edition Available John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
Supported by current research and author expertise, John Gardner’s and Betsy Barefoot’s Your College Experience provides today’s diverse students with the help they need for the transition to college and useful strategies for success in college and beyond.
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Supported by current research and author expertise, John Gardner’s and Betsy Barefoot’s Your College Experience provides today’s diverse students with the help they need for the transition to college and useful strategies for success in college and beyond.
While maintaining its hallmark theme of goal setting and a continued emphasis on the ten High-Impact Practices identified by the American Association of Colleges & Universities, the thirteenth edition provides practical strategies across all topics to help students be successful from the start. This new edition features extensive coverage of motivation, attitude, mindsets, and resilience in an expanded chapter on emotional intelligence, explores new themes in a revised and peer-reviewed chapter on diversity, and includes an updated Majors and Careers chapter that spotlights current research about the economy and career success.
A full package of instructional support materials—including an Instructor’s Annotated Edition, Instructor’s Manual, videos, and a Test Bank—provides new and experienced instructors all the tools they will need to engage students in this course and increase student retention.
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Everything you need for college success
Supported by current research and author expertise, John Gardner’s and Betsy Barefoot’s Your College Experience provides today’s diverse students with the help they need for the transition to college and useful strategies for success in college and beyond.
While maintaining its hallmark theme of goal setting and a continued emphasis on the ten High-Impact Practices identified by the American Association of Colleges & Universities, the thirteenth edition provides practical strategies across all topics to help students be successful from the start. This new edition features extensive coverage of motivation, attitude, mindsets, and resilience in an expanded chapter on emotional intelligence, explores new themes in a revised and peer-reviewed chapter on diversity, and includes an updated Majors and Careers chapter that spotlights current research about the economy and career success.
A full package of instructional support materials—including an Instructor’s Annotated Edition, Instructor’s Manual, videos, and a Test Bank—provides new and experienced instructors all the tools they will need to engage students in this course and increase student retention.
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- The latest research on the First-Year Experience.
New to This Edition
- A reconceived Chapter 1, "Thriving in College and Life," features new content on the concept of thriving, which is tied into the role of the college success course and this textbook. A new section helps students appreciate the "VIPs" they’ll encounter in college, such as fellow students, peer leaders, and college staff. The revised Chapter 1 also introduces the concept of "Beginning with the End in Mind," which aims to help students focus on the ultimate outcomes of their college experience.
- An expanded Chapter 2, "Cultivating Motivation, Resilience, and Emotional Intelligence," features more robust coverage of motivation, attitude, mindsets, and resilience, in addition to emotional intelligence. These topics and are now covered earlier in the text to reflect their significant impact on college success.
- New themes of diversity are explored in a revised and peer-reviewed Chapter 13 "Diversity." These include the topic of microaggressions, a major concern on college campuses, as well as appreciating diversity not only in college but also in the workplace and in life. The chapter also includes an up-to-date section on sexual and gender identity.
- The "Majors and Careers" chapter, which has been moved up from Chapter 15 to Chapter 11, includes updated discussions on the evolving economy and branding yourself.

Your College Experience
Thirteenth Edition| ©2018
John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
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Your College Experience
Thirteenth Edition| 2018
John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
Table of Contents
Part I Foundations 1. Why Go to College? 2. Time Management 3. Emotional Intelligence 4. How You LearnPart II Preparing to Study 5. Thinking in College 6. Reading to Learn 7. Getting the Most Out of Class 8. Studying 9. Test-taking 10. Information Literacy and Communication
Part III Preparing for Life 11. Relationships 12. Diversity 13. Wellness 14. Money
Part IV Next Steps 15. Majors and Careers

Your College Experience
Thirteenth Edition| 2018
John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
Authors

John N. Gardner
John N. Gardner brings unparalleled experience to students as an author. The recipient of his institution's highest award for teaching excellence, John has over forty 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, as well as the Policy Center on the First Year of College and the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education (www.jngi.org), both based in Brevard, N.C.

Betsy O. Barefoot
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 co-director 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 co-director and senior scholar in the Policy Center on the First Year of College and Vice President of the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education both in Brevard, N.C. In her Policy Center role she led a major national research project to identify institutions of excellence in the first college year. She currently works with both two- and four-year campuses in evaluating all components of the first year.

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Thirteenth Edition| 2018
John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
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John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
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