Thriving in College & Beyond: Research-Based Strategies for Academic Success and Personal Development covers the full range of topics and issues that impact student success. Content is delivered through multiple formats and learning modalities, including snapshot summary boxes, concept maps, content-relevant cartoons, inspiring quotes from successful students and famous people, and poignant personal stories from the authors. The book is: 1. Substantive Research-based material builds on scholarship from different academic disciplines and student development theories. Models citation of scholarly references that students can emulate. Educates students not only about what they should do to be successful, but provides compelling reasons why they should do it. 2. Interactive Pre-chapter questions activate students' thinking and prior knowledge about the upcoming topic. Within-chapter questions punctuate students' reading with opportunities for reflection. Post-chapter exercises promote consolidation and application of knowledge acquired from the chapter. The new fifth edition of Thriving in College and Beyond features: A new chapter on mental health (psychological wellness). New material on student leadership. Additional material on grit and resilience. Career readiness and employability skills infused across chapters. More extensive coverage of diversity, including sexual orientation and gender identity Strategies for promoting civility and campus community. Updated online resources for locating additional information relating to each chapter topic. A new pre/post course-assessment instrument accompanies the text. Adopting instructors are provided with comprehensive professional development materials including research-based guidelines for course design, delivery, and assessment. The extensive Instructor's Manual includes: Information on course planning, topic placement/sequencing, and syllabus design. Strategies for incentivizing and ensuring that students read the book. Specific learning objectives to guide student reading that align directly with test-bank questions. Step-by-step instructional directions for in-class exercises and out-of-class assignments that engage students in active, interactive, and collaborative learning. Detailed strategies for course and program evaluation, including course-embedded strategies for assessing student learning outcomes, pre/post assessment instrument designed to measure positive changes in student knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes, plus student and instructor course-evaluation surveys.A concise version of this textbook is also available for 1- or 2-credit courses. Thriving in College & Beyond: Concise Version

This book focuses on the terms "collaborative learning," "cooperative learning," and "learning community" in which they have been bandied about in American higher education with great frequency and enthusiasm. One primary purpose of this monograph is to provide a more precise delineation of postsecondary practices that are subsumed or assumed to be embraced by the umbrella terms, collaborative learning, cooperative learning, and learning community, and organize these practices into a coherent classification system or taxonomy.

Thriving in the Community College & Beyond covers the full range of topics and issues that impact student success. Content is delivered through multiple formats and learning modalities, including snapshot summary boxes, concept maps, content relevant cartoons, inspiring quotes from successful students and famous people, and poignant personal stories from the authors. The book is: 1. Substantive Research-based material builds on scholarship from different academic disciplines and student development theories. Models citation of scholarly references that students can emulate. Educates students not only about what they should do to be successful, but provides compelling reasons why they should do it. 2. Interactive Pre-chapter questions activate students' thinking and prior knowledge about the upcoming topic. Within-chapter journal entries punctuate students' reading with opportunities for reflection. Post-chapter exercises promote consolidation and application of knowledge acquired from the chapter. Thriving in the Community College and Beyond promotes pride in the community college and articulates the value of an associate degree. The new fourth edition of Thriving in the Community College and Beyond features: A new chapter on mental health (psychological wellness). Career readiness/employability skills included in an expanded career development chapter and infused across chapters. New material on the value and relevance of general education for career preparation and personal development. New material on information literacy and oral communications skills - new material on student leadership. Strategies for promoting civility and campus community. Additional material on grit and resilience. Newly-revised online resources for further exploration of chapter topics. A new pre/post course-assessment instrument accompanies the text. Thriving in the Community College & Beyond focuses on the student as whole person, including both academic and personal strategies that are applicable to success in college and life beyond college. Adopting instructors are provided comprehensive professional development materials including research-based guidelines for course design, delivery, and assessment. The extensive Instructor's Manual includes: Information on course planning, topic placement/sequencing, and syllabus design. Strategies for incentivizing and ensuring that students read the book. Specific learning objectives to guide student reading that align directly with test-bank questions. Step-by-step instructional directions for in-class exercises and out-of-class assignments that engage students in active, interactive, and collaborative learning. Detailed strategies for course and program evaluation, including course-embedded strategies for assessing student learning outcomes, pre/post assessment instrument designed to measure positive changes in student knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes, plus student and instructor course-evaluation surveys.

Summer reading programs for first-year students should be focused on the needs of those students. This book moves away from the paradigm of using general audience novels for summer reading programs. It is a high-impact book written by experienced first-year educators for this specific student audience. The content articulates to students how a college education can improve quality of their life. The goals of liberal learning, diversity education, and humanity are integrated by educating students about the narrowness of ethnocentric and egocentric perspectives, broadening one's vision to embrace diverse perspectives, and deepening self-awareness. Primary purposes: Motivational New students will be inspired and excited about their upcoming college experience. They will learn how college will be distinctively different from their prior compulsory educational experiences, and how it has the potential to improve the quality of their lives in multiple ways. Contextual It provides new students with an overarching ""big picture"" context that helps them make sense of their upcoming college experience. It will enable them to ""see the forest before they get lost in the trees."" Preparatory New students will be ready to ""hit the ground running"" when they first step foot on campus. It provides them with high-impact strategies that can have a direct and immediate effect on their success during the critical first term of college.

Renowned educators and leaders Aaron Thompson, Ph.D., Houston Barber, Ph.D., and Joe Cuseo, Ph.D., collaborate to share their collective knowledge on the successful implementation of diversity into the classroom and community - across all ages and levels. This publication provides future and current educational leaders with ?!effective, research-based strategies for delivering culturally competent, responsive, and inclusive school leadership. The tools offered serve to close the achievement gap while simultaneously promoting the academic achievement and personal development of all students. Created with P-20 students in mind, these proven tactics are applicable across the entire spectrum of education and community development. Features include: Authors' Experiences Internet Resources Practical Applications Chapter Purpose and Preview