Books available for review in the Learning Center (101 Willard)                                                                      

FYE Faculty Teaching Resources

Achieving and Sustaining Institutional Excellence for the First Year of College; Betsy O. Barefoot, John N. Gardner, Marc Cutright, Libby V. Morris, Charles C. Schroeder, Stephen W. Schwartz, Michael J. Siegel, and Randy L. Swing; Jossey-Bass

The First-Year Experience in American Higher Education; Andrew K. Koch, Editor-in-Chief, Stephanie M. Foote, Sara E. Hinkle, Jennifer Keup, and Matthew D. Pistilli, Editors, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition

Exploring the Evidence: Initiative in the First College Year; Wendy G. Troxel, and Marc Cutright, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition

Promoting Reasonable Expectations: Aligning Student and Intuitional Views of the College Experience; Thomas E. Miller, Barbara E. Bender, and John H. Schuh and Associates; Jossey-Bass A Wiley Imprint

Teaching First-Year College Students: Revised and Expanded Edition of Teaching College Freshman; Bette Lasere Ericks, Calvin B. Peters, and Diane Weltner Strommer, Jossey-Bass A Wiley Imprint

The Freshman Year Experience: Helping Students Survive and Succeed in College; M. Lee Upcraft, John N. Gardner and Associates, Jossey-Bass Publishers

Challenging and Supporting the First-Year Student: A Handbook for Improving the First Year of College; M. Lee Upcraft, John N. Gardner, Betsy O. Barefoot and Associates

How College Affects Students: Volume 2, A Third Decade of Research; Ernest T. Pascarella, and Patrick T. Terenzini, Jossey-Bass A Wiley Imprint

What the Best College Teachers Do; Ken Bain, Harvard University Press

Student Development in the First College Year: A Primer for College Educators; Tracy L. Skipper, National Resource Center The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition

Millennials Go to College; Neil Howe, and William Strauss, Life Course Associates

Paradoxes of Learning: On Becoming an Individual in Society; Peter Jarvis, Jossey-Bass Publishers

Successful College Teaching: Problem-Solving Strategies of Distinguished Professors; Sharon A. Baiocco, and Jamie N. DeWaters,  Allyn and Bacon

Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching &Learning: Professional Literature That Makes a Difference; Maryellen Weimer, Jossey-Bass A Wiley Imprint

Student Success in College: Creating Conditions That Matter; George D. Kuh, Jillian Kinzie, John H. Schuh, Elizabeth J. Whitt, and Associates, Jossey-Bass A Wiley Imprint

Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom; John C. Bean, Jossey- Bass

Supplemental Instruction: Improving First-Year Student Success In High-Risk Courses (3rd ed.); Marion E. Stone & Glen Jacobs; National Resoure Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition.

FYE Student Texts

Your College Experience: Strategies for Success *NEW* Ninth edition (342 pages; © 2011); Gardner, Jewler, & Barefoot.  Bedford/St. Martin's.  There is also a concise edition and instructor's edition available.

Peak Performance: Success in College and Beyond (7th ed., 530 pages; © 2010); Sharon Ferrett; Mc-Graw Hill.

POWER Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life Third edition © 2007; Robert Feldman; McGraw Hill.

Step by Step to College and Career Success (4th ed. ©2011); John Gardner & Betsy Barefoot; Bedford/St. Martin's.

Thriving In College & Beyond (© 2008; Concise Version); Joseph Cuseo, et al.; Kendall/Hunt.

Keys to Effective Learning: Developing Powerful Habits of Mind Fifth edition; Carol Carter, et al.; Pearson Education.

Your Guide to College Success: Strategies for Achieving Your Goals Fifth edition (464 pages; © 2008); Santrock & Halonen. Wadsworth/Cengage.

On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life Second and Fifth edition; Skip Dowling; Cengage.

College Success Strategies: Second Edition; Sherrie L. Nist, and Jodi Patrick Holschuh, Penguin Academics

Orientation to College Learning; Dianna L. Van Blerkom, Wadsworth Publishing Company

Taking Charge of My Life: Personal Essays by Today’s College Students; Townsend Press

First in the Family: Advice About College From First-Generation Students: Your College Years; Kathleen Cushman, Next Generation Press

Surviving the First Year of College: Myth vs. Reality; Steve Gladis, Ph.D, HRD Press

Selected Study Skills Texts

Ten Things You Really Need to Succeed in College First edition (224 pages; © 2004); John Langan; McGraw-Hill. (Workbook with some text).

Thinking for Yourself: Developing Critical Thinking Skills through Reading and Writing Fourth Edition; Marlys Mayfield, Wadsworth Publishing Company

The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking (24 pages; © 2009) ; Richard Paul & Linda Elder; The Foundation for Critical Thinking.

Efficient and Flexible Reading; Kathleen T. McWhorter, Longman

The Transition to College Writing (230 pages); Keith Hjortshoj; Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Study Skills: Do I Really Need This Stuff? ; Steve Piscitelli, Pearson Prentice Hall

How To Improve Student Learning; Richard Paul and Linda Elder; www.criticalthinking.org

Connections to College Success; Santrock & Halonen, Wadsworth/Cengage.

Essential Study Skills; Linda Wong, Houghton Mifflin Company

Bedford/St. Martin's Insider's Guides to Getting Involved On Campus, Beating Test Anxiety, Credit Cards, Global Citizenship and Time Management (12 pages each, © 2011)

(Additional study skills texts and resources, not listed here, are also available in the Learning Center)

FYE Readers/Novels

(catalog only) Freshman Year Reading 2010: Recommended Titles.  Random House.

My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student (208 pages, Cornell University press, © 2005); Rebekkah Nathan. 

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America; (244 pages; Holt Paperback; © 2008); Barbara Ehrenreich

Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America (516 pages; © 2009; Picador); Thomas L. Friedman

No Impact Man (276 pages; © 2009; Picador); Colin Beavan

The Rules of the Red Rubber Ball; Kevin Caroll.  (Not currently available in the Learning Center library)

The Alchemist; Paulo Coelho. (Not currently available in the Learning Center library)

Orientation to College: A Reader Second edition (256 pages, © 2004) Stetenpohl, Shopton, & Villines. Wadsworth/Cengage.  (Not currently available in the Learning Center library)

Case Studies for First-Year Experience Students (96 pages © 2003) Riesen, Szarlan & Singha; Wadsworth/Cengage.

FYE Texts Customized for Individual Campuses

College Success Strategies: At Farmington State; Sherrie L. Nist, and Jodi Patrick Holschuh, Pearson Custom Publishing

First Year Success and All That Jazz; Julia R. Brown, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

Navigating VCU; Edited by First Year Student Services Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Services, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

Your First Year at Stony Brook: The Beginning of an Incredible Journey 2006-2007; Jean Peden, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

College Forum: A Connection to Success; Norma McNerney, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

Rocketing to Success at UT; Linda Gubbe, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

College Experience; Anne Marie Perry, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company