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OverviewAcademic advisors help students learn to make the most of their college years, not merely by completing requirements toward a degree but also by growing intellectually and developing all aspects of their identity. Yet, many professional and faculty advisors are new to academic advising and may feel ill-equipped to do more than help students register for classes. This new edited collection provides an overview of the theory and best practice undergirding advising today while exploring the transition challenges of a wide-range of first-year college students, including those attending two-year colleges, coming from underrepresented backgrounds, entering underprepared for college-level work, and/or experiencing academic failure. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jenny R. Fox , Holly E. MartinPublisher: National Resource Center for The First Year Experience & Students in Transition Imprint: National Resource Center for The First Year Experience & Students in Transition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.432kg ISBN: 9781942072003ISBN 10: 1942072007 Pages: 250 Publication Date: 30 September 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAs with most meaningful human endeavors, advising first-year college students is a challenging, complicated process. Happily, this book is replete with actionable insights about advising approaches that promise to enhance student success in the first college year and beyond. --George D. Kuh, Chancellor's Professor of Higher Education Emeritus, Indiana University Academic Advising and the First College Year is an invaluable resource for professional advisors, faculty, and administrators working with first year students. Comprehensive in its approach, including theory, practice, and assessment, it serves as a roadmap and resource for advisors and institutions that are committed to student persistence and success. --Susan Fread, Director of Academic Advising, Lehigh Carbon Community College At no time in the history of American higher education has student success been more important. Academic Advising and the First College Year provides readers with a clear and definitive understanding of the important role academic advisors play in first-year students' academic success and degree completion. Authors identify and investigate key issues, skills, and strategies for all who work with first-year students. --Charlie L. Nutt, Executive Director, NACADA As with most meaningful human endeavors, advising first-year college students is a challenging, complicated process. Happily, this book is replete with actionable insights about advising approaches that promise to enhance student success in the first college year and beyond. --George D. Kuh, Chancellor's Professor of Higher Education Emeritus, Indiana University Academic Advising and the First College Year draws on NACADA's vast knowledge of and experience with academic advising that help readers apply that wisdom directly to their institution's first-year advising practices. This is a 'must read' for anyone who is serious about continuous quality improvement in academic advising for new college students. -- (09/27/2017) A useful and thoughtful scholarly contribution about the importance and current state of academic advising for present day college students. This book is intended to supplement and build upon previous scholarship about college advising for first year students, but with particular attention to present day contexts, such as the crucial matter of advising an increasingly diverse student population. This text is a valuable and important resource for higher educational professionals and stakeholders who are seeking to be better informed about concepts, theories, and practice pertaining to college advising. This text is a valuable and important resource for advisors, but is also a helpful text for faculty, administrators, and any other stakeholders. College advisors will benefit from the conceptual, theoretical, and practical underpinnings that are presented in the book. Faculty might utilize this book, or selected chapters, in courses that center on student development, research on college students, diversity, equity, and inclusion, or critical issues in higher education. Perhaps a useful contribution of this book is its capacity to potentially promote classroom discourse about the changing landscape of present day college students and how to shape institutional practices to effectively promote college success for first year students. Finally, administrators and other stakeholders will gain a fundamental understanding about the crucial issues that presently exist regarding first year college advising and some of the ways that college advisors are confronting and tackling these issues. --Teachers College Record At no time in the history of American higher education has student success been more important. Academic Advising and the First College Year provides readers with a clear and definitive understanding of the important role academic advisors play in first-year students' academic success and degree completion. Authors identify and investigate key issues, skills, and strategies for all who work with first-year students. --Charlie L. Nutt, Executive Director, NACADA Academic Advising and the First College Year is an invaluable resource for professional advisors, faculty, and administrators working with first year students. Comprehensive in its approach, including theory, practice, and assessment, it serves as a roadmap and resource for advisors and institutions that are committed to student persistence and success. --Susan Fread, Director of Academic Advising, Lehigh Carbon Community College Author InformationJenny R. Fox Holly E. Martin Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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