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Your College Experience

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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Your College Experience by John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot - Thirteenth Edition, 2018 from Macmillan Student Store

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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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  • The latest research on the First-Year Experience. Your College Experience represents not only the practical experience of the authors' extensive careers teaching and directing this course, but also the culmination of decades of research, disseminated through two national higher education centers which they have founded and directed. Citations throughout this edition have been updated to reflect the very latest research on the first-year experience.
  • Continued emphasis on the top ten High-Impact Practices. Developed by the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the ten High-Impact Educational Practices have been shown to be beneficial for college students from many backgrounds, and include such approaches as collaboration, writing-intensive courses, undergraduate research, diversity, service learning, internships, and more. High-Impact Practices are presented in Chapter 1 and then integrated throughout the text with a unique icon.
  • Critical thinking activities and exercises in every chapter. These features encourage students to think critically about the material and reflect on their college experience.
  • Your Turn collaborative learning activities. These activities are divided into five types and can be used to help strengthen the bond between students and their college communities. These activities incorporate the High-Impact Practices that are featured throughout the text.
  • Tech Tip features in every chapter that highlight the link between technology and learning. These features introduce critical technology skills that span the classroom and real life.
  • Use Your Resources boxes connect students to their campus, faculty, and other students. To help students take more control of their own success, every chapter includes a quick overview of additional resources for support, including learning-assistance centers, books, Web sites, and fellow students.

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.

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Table of Contents

Part I Foundations

1. Why Go to College?

2. Time Management

3. Emotional Intelligence

4. How You Learn


Part 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

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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