ERIC ED393486: The Community College: Opportunity and Access for America's First-Year Students. Monograph Series Number 19.

174 Pages·1996·1.2 MB·English

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University of South Carolina, 1996
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The National Resource Center for
The Freshman Year Experience & Students in Transition
University of South Carolina, 1996
Additional copies of this monograph may be ordered for $30 each from the National Resource
Center for The Freshman Year Experience and Students in Transition, 1728 College Street,
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. Telephone [phone]. Telefax [phone].
Special gratitude is expressed to Scott Stanton Bowen and Randolph F. Handel, Assistant Editors at
the Resource Center, for editing, proofing, layout, and design; to Dr. Betsy Barefoot, the Resource
Center's Co-Director for Research and Publications; and to Dr. Dorothy S. Fidler, the Center's Senior
Managing Editor.
Copyright 1996 by the University of South Carolina. All rights reserved.
No part of this work may be reproduced or copied in any form, by any means,
without written permission from the University of South Carolina
The Freshman Year Experience® and The First-Year Experience® are trademarks of the
University of South Carolina. A license may be granted upon written request to use these terms.
This license is not transferable without the written approval of the University of South Carolina.
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Table of Contents
Foreword .................................................................v
by John N. Gardner
Chapter 1 .............................................................. 1
The Freshman Year Experience:
A Philosophy for Higher Education
in the New Millennium
Joseph N. Hankin & John N. Gardner
Chapter 2 ............................................................ 11
Promoting New Student Success
In the Community College
Beverly L. Bower
Chapter 3 ............................................................ 19
You Are Welcome Here:
Research, Policy, and Programs
for the American Community
College Woman Student
Helen Tina Feiger
Chapter 4 ............................................................ 29
A New Plan:
Total Transfer Management
Carey E. Harbin
Chapter 5 ............................................................ 37
Making the Connection Count:
Articulation Between Community Colleges
and Four-Year Colleges
James C. Palmer
Chapter 6 ............................................................ 49
Building a Path: Orientation as the
Critical Link to Student Success
Les P. Cook
Chapter 7 ............................................................ 59
A Natural Marriage:
The Extended Orientation Seminar
and the Community College
Joseph B. Cuseo & Betsy O. Barefoot
Chapter 8 ............................................................ 69
The Politics of Creating and
Maintaining a College
Success Course
Douglas A. Kenny
Chapter 9 ............................................................ 77
Those Who Tempt Fate and Those
Who Advise Them: Designing
Strategies for Serving
Underprepared Students
John E. Roueche & Suanne D. Roueche
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Chapter 10 .......................................................... 85
The Way It Used to Be:
“New” Students and
The Early Public Junior College
Robert P. Pederson
Chapter 11 .......................................................... 97
Persistence and the First Year Experience
at the Community College: Teaching New
Students to Survive, Stay, and Thrive
Vincent Tinto
Chapter 12 ........................................................105
Teaching New Students at the
Community College:
A Unique Time in a Unique Setting
Dennis McGrath
Chapter 13 .......................................................115
Academic Advising: Clearing a
Path to Student Success
Margaret C. King
Chapter 14 ........................................................123
Supplemental Instruction:
Supporting the Classroom Experience
Deanna C. Martin, Robert Blanc, & David R. Arendale
Chapter 15 ........................................................135
Learning Communities and Student
Involvement in the Community
College: Creating Environments of
Inclusion and Success
Vincent Tinto, Patricia E. Russo, & Stephanie Kadel-Taras
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Chapter 16 ........................................................143
Holding the Line:
A Comprehensive Plan for Retention
D. David Conklin
Chapter 17 ........................................................151
Visible Leadership: The Role of
the Community College President
in The Freshman Year Experience
George B. Vaughan
The Authors .....................................................159
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Foreword
by John N. Gardner
This monograph is a long overdue expres- student population. In the process of work-
sion of collegiality, respect, and partnership ing with WCC in this effort, we came to have a
between the National Resource Center for The friendship with one of America's most esteemed
Freshman Year Experience and Students in community college educators and presidents,
Transition and thousands of colleagues in high- Joseph Hankin. He has provided leadership for
er education who work in the approximately his institution for nearly 30 years. During that
1,400 community and two-year colleges across time, he has also taught hundreds of graduate
the country. Since our Center was founded in students and future community college teach-
1987, we have always invited the input of our ers and leaders at Columbia University Teachers
colleagues in the two-year sector in the work of College. President Hankin also was a co-host
our Center. Unquestionably, the two-year sector for a special conference our Center organized
now sees the majority of America's new college in 1988 to focus exclusively on the nature of the
students enter for the first time and often go on first-year experience in the American commu-
to transfer to a baccalaureate-level school. This nity college.
monograph is a salute to the essential work of
the educators who are the teachers of these five- This series of National Resource Center mono-
and-a-half million-plus students each year in graphs dates to 1987. We have attempted to fo-
America's community colleges. cus on many significant, unique, and important
topics within the larger subject of the American
This monograph is also a product of a partner- first-year experience. A special publication,
ship between the University of South Carolina then, on the nature of the first-year experi-
and Westchester Community College (WCC) ence in the community college has been much
that dates back to the mid-1980s. During that needed. And we know of no better partner to
period, our faculty and staff who have been provide editorial leadership for this publication
involved with the University 101 first-year semi- than President Hankin. This work is a result of
nar here at University of South Carolina shared his leadership, recruitment of chapter authors,
their expertise with faculty and staff at WCC to and many hours of editorial labor. So in addi-
assist them in the launching of their version of tion to saluting our colleagues in community
a first-year seminar. A decade later WCC has colleges, we salute President Hankin for his
gained a wealth of experience in adapting the perseverance, collegiality, and vision that made
concept of the first-year seminar to its unique this monograph possible. We hope that you will
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read and enjoy this publication and be moved to
some kind of productive action for the sake of
your school and your students.
I wish to thank also my two senior editors here
in the National Resource Center, Drs. Dorothy
Fidler and Betsy Barefoot, for their outstanding
contributions to the production of this mono-
graph. We at the Center are all committed to
further ventures with faculty and administrators
in community colleges to strengthen the first-
year experience in American higher education,
and we are indebted to many of you for demon-
strating to us in the baccalaureate sector a way
to better serve America's first-year students.
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