Your College Experience: Strategies for Success

by John N. Gardner, A. Jerome Jewler, Betsy O. Barefoot

Written by the leading authorities on the first-year seminar and grounded in research, Your College Experience offers students practical help in making the transition to college and getting the most out of their time there. Speaking with evident respect for students at all kinds of institutions, with all kinds of learning styles, and with all kinds of backgrounds, the authors ask them to consider their own goals, and their purposes for being in college. Particularly relevant to today’s students, a new Money chapter discusses managing money, building credit, and financing college. A new chapter on Emotional Intelligence helps students recognize their own strengths and weaknesses so they can understand themselves better and direct their own path. A fresh, clean new design eliminates clutter so that students can focus on the important topics.

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Shannon · Rating 1 out of 5]

I am reading this book as the university has issued this as the required textbook for the class I am teaching this fall, Skills for College Life. It has been challenging trying to remember what was relevant and needed information when I was a freshman. So far, I like that the text incorporates educational, social, emotional and physical health, as well as, everyday practical tools for gaining value from the college experience instead of focusing strictly on only academic skills. Thankfully, I don't have to teach specifically from the textbook so I can pick and choose the most valuable (hopefully) sections for the class.

[Monique · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok but not the book I would pick to teach the class.

[Steph]

Course: US/101
Prof: Kevin Barnas