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Subtitle: university colleges and undergraduate divisions
By: Diane W. Strommer, editor.
Contributors: Strommer, Diane Weltner, 1935-; National Center for the Study of the Freshman Year Experience (University of South Carolina); Association of Deans and Directors of University Colleges and Undergraduate Studies.
Series: Monograph series / National Resource Center for the Freshman Year Experience -- no. 12.; Monograph series (University of South Carolina. National Resource Center for the Freshman Year Experience) -- no. 12.
Publisher: National Resource Center for the Freshman Year Experience, University of South Carolina
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 77
Subjects: Universities and colleges -- Departments -- Case studies; College students -- Education -- United States -- Case studies; College freshmen -- Education -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Other titles: Freshman year experience.; University colleges and undergraduate divisions.
Notes: "In association with [the] Assoc. of Deans & Directors of University Colleges & Undergraduate Studies (ADD)"

Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-116).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Ch. 1. University colleges today / Diane W. Strommer; title: Case studies: Ch. 2. An historical perspective (Ohio University) / Samuel Crowl; title: Ch. 3. The retention of students (Ball State University) / Barbara Weaver; title: Ch. 4. Coherence through coordinated advising (The Pennsylvannia State University) / Eric White; title: Ch. 5. Flexibility at a comprehensive university (The Ohio State University) / Thomas L. Minnick; title: Ch. 6. Valuing the first-year student (Butler University) / Marilyn K. Spencer; title: Ch. 7. Constancy, change, and campus politics (University of Rhode Island) / Diane W. Strommer; title: Ch. 8. Supporting students in the historically black university (Alabama A & M University and others) / Fran Johnson; title: Conclusion: Ch. 9. The differences made: a sampler and data from institutions with no freshman college / Diane W. Strommer; title: Ch. 10. Issues for new university colleges / Diane W. Strommer.