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First Year Students

Best Practices for Teaching First-Year Undergraduates
from the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence at Carnegie Mellon University (1997)

Changing Institutional Culture for First-Year Students and Those Who Teach Them
by Raymond Smith (2003, March-April). About Campus, pp.3-8

Checkers and Chess: What's in a Game? The Transition from High School to College
by David Johns (1993), the University of Delaware Center for Teaching Effectiveness

From High School to College
summary of Chapter One from Bette LaSere Erickson and Diane Weltner Strommer, Teaching College Freshmen (1991).

Knowing Your Students Better: A Key to Involving First-Year Students
by Joseph Fenty (1997). The University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT), Occasional Papers, No. 9.

Metamorphosis: Freshman to Successful Student
by James G. Ladesic (1995), Professor of Aerospace Engineering, and Catherine A. McClellan, Mathematics Coordinator at the Student Success Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University