The Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning releases a special issue highlighting lessons learne from the Re-Imaging the First Year (RFY) initiative carried out by the Association of American State Colleges and Universities (AASCU).
Table of Contents
Introduction, Re-Imagining the First Year of College (RFY)
George Mehaffy, Jo Arney
Foreword
William J. McKinney
Assessing Collaborative, Project-based Learning Models in Introductory Science Courses
Kristin Huysken, Harold Olivey, Kevin McElmurry, Ming Gao, Peter Avis
Maintaining High-Impact Bridge Programming at Scale
Vincent Windrow, Ryan Korstange
Curricular Learning Communities and Retention
Beth Kern, Tabitha Kingsbury
Re-Imagining the First Year as Catalyst for First-Year Writing Program Curricular Change
Virginia Crank, Sara Heaser, Darci L. Thoune
Designing for Students: Creating a Robust Interdisciplinary First Year Course
Deborah E. Bordelon, Colleen M. Sexton, Ann M. Vendrely
Developing Faculty Communities of Practice to Expand the Use of Effective Pedagogical Techniques
Mark Hoyert, Cynthia O'Dell
A Case Study on Experiential Learning in a First-Year General Education Course
Niki Weller, Julie Saam
Empowering Faculty to Support Academic Persistence through a Blended, Scholarship-Based Faculty Professional Development Program: The Persistence Scholars Program
Michelle Miller, K. Laurie Dickson, Rachel L. Koch
Students’ Sense of Belonging: The Development of a Predictive Retention Model
Glenn M. Davis, Melissa B. Hanzsek-Brill, Mark Carl Petzold, David H. Robinson
Increasing Student Success through a Cocktail of Cognitive Interventions
Mark Hoyert, Kevin Ballard, Cynthia O'Dell