Your College Experience: Strategies for Success, Expanded Reader

This Reader edition contains all chapters from the Gardner/Jewler's popular YOUR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS, Fifth Edition as well as additional chapters on online learning, the history of college education in the US, leadership, surviving college, college success for students of color and women on college campuses. Reader format is suited to adopters who prefer a smaller format book that spurs individual reflection and classroom discussion but is not exercise based.

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Written for first-year college students, this guide to the college experience gives advice on academic success and decision making. Self-assessments and goals begin each chapter, and journal questions guide students to reflect on what they've learned. In this fifth edition, there is new information on computer technology, plus new chapters on preparing for careers in a fluctuating economy and job market, and taking online or distance courses. Gardner is senior fellow of the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina. Jewler is also affiliated with the University of South Carolina. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

John N. Gardner brings unparalleled experience to this writing partnership for American higher education's authoritative text for first-year seminar courses. He is the recipient of his institution's highest award for teaching excellence. He has 25 years of experience directing and teaching in the most respected and widely emulated first-year seminar in the U.S., the University 101 course at the University of South Carolina. Gardner is universally recognized as one of the country's leading higher 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 two very influential higher education centers which support campuses in their efforts to improve the learning and retention of beginning college students: the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina (sc.edu/fye), and the Policy Center on the First Year of College in Brevard, N.C. (fyfoundations.org). The experiential basis for all of his work is his own miserable first year of college on academic probation, an experience he hopes to prevent for many of this book's readers.

A. Jerome Jewler is a best-selling author, educator, and lecturer. He has contributed his expertise and guidance to college success education and training since 1972. Jewler is currently a distinguished professor emeritus of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina. In addition, he served as the co-director for the campus-wide University 101 program from 1983 to 1989 and wasresponsible for planning and conducting faculty development workshops focusing on teaching first-year students. He received the Mortar Board award for teaching excellence in 1993 and 1997 and, in 1996, was named the University of South Carolina's Faculty Advisor of the Year.