Recently added articles from Peer Review:
The Value of an Outdoor Education Experience
Jan 01, 2008; Torsney, Cheryl B ... Last summer I took five days to travel to Dolly Sods, a wilderness area in the Allegheny National Forest, with one of my institution's sixteen summer excursions designed to introduce first-year students to institutional expectations, campus culture, study skills, other students, and themselves ....
Transforming Learning: Academic Advising At Spelman College
Jan 01, 2008; Pedescleaux, Desiree S; Baxter, Geneva; Sidbury, Carmen ... Under the leadership of provost Johnnella Butler in fell 2005, the faculty began to examine and reenvision the liberal arts mission of Spelrnan College. With the support from a 2006 Mellon Foundation Grant "Rethinking and Refocusing the General Education Curriculum," the faculty began ...
FROM THE EDITOR
Jan 01, 2008; Carey, Shelley Johnson ... In the spring 2006 Liberal Education article "Teachable Moments: Advising as Liberal Education," Ned Scott Laff wrote that "advising can help students realize how their contextual and critical thinking continually helps them examine and be sensitive to new contexts that challenge their ways of ...
Academic Advising in the New Global Century: Supporting Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes Achievement
Jan 01, 2008; Campbell, Susan M; Nutt, Charlie L ... In her article "Losing Sleep over Student SUCCESS?" in the spring 2006 issue of The Presidency, France A. Cordova, then chancellor of the University of California-Riverside and now president of Purdue University, stresses the importance of student success and achievement to all higher education ...
Toward Reflective Conversations: An Advising Approach that Promotes Self-Authorship
Jan 01, 2008; Magolda, Marcia B Baxter; King, Patricia M ... Academic advisers can play a special role in students' lives, as they are in positions to brainstorm possible futures with their advisees and map out paths to get there. In partnership with other faculty and staff, they can use this opportunity to promote students' self-authorship, the capacity ...
AAC&U MEETINGS
Jan 01, 2008; Anonymous ... SUMMER INSTITUTES AAC&U INSTITUTE ON GENERAL EDUCATION May 30-June 4, 2008 Minneapolis, Minnesota GREATER EXPECTATIONS INSTITUTE Campus Leadership for Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Achievement June 18-22, 2008 | Snowbird, ...
Establishing Effective Advising Practices to Influence Student Learning and Success
Jan 01, 2008; Freeman, Lynn C ... Visit any campus in the United States and ask undergraduates what they are unhappy about, and you are likely to get the same three answers: parking, dining hall food, and advising. Academic advisers across the country have to wonder how their dedication to learning and hard work on behalf of ...
Reenvisioning and Revitalizing Academic Advising at Western Oregon University
Jan 01, 2008; Sullivan-Vance, Karen ... Western Oregon University is a public, four year, comprehensive, liberal arts university that is grounded in student access and success. Our incoming students are 51 percent first generation and 8 percent Latino/a. Located in the Willamette Valley, the university strives to help students attain ...
Centralizing Advising to Improve Student Outcomes
Jan 01, 2008; Steingass, S Jon; Sykes, Seth ... In Making the Most of College (2001 ), Richard Light concludes that good advising may be the single most underestimated characteristic of a successful college experience. For many students, academic advising provides the only out-of-class contact they have with a faculty or member of the ...
Advising and the Liberal Arts: It Takes a College
Jan 01, 2008; Freije, Margaret ... At the College of the Holy Cross, as at many other schools, all students are advised by full-time members of the faculty. This is as it should be. Good advising is about what good faculty do best-engaging students in the life of the mind, supporting their intellectual development and raising ...