Designing successful transitions
Subtitle: a guide for orienting students to college
By: Jeanine A. Ward-Roof, editor
Contributors: National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition (University of South Carolina)
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: The first-year experience monograph series -- no. 13
Publisher: National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Columbia, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781889271699
Subjects: College freshmen; College student orientation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A brief overview of the orientation, transition, and retention field / Craig E. Mack; title: Theoretical perspectives on orientation / Denise Rode and Tony Cawthon; title: Making the case for orientation: is it worth it? / Bonita C. Jacobs; title: Administration of a comprehensive orientation program / April Mann, Charlie Andrews, and Norma Rodenburg; title: Community college orientation and transition programs / Cathy Cuevas and Chris Timmerman; title: Channeling parental involvement to support student success / Jeanine A. Ward-Roof, Laura Page, and Ryan Lombardi; title: Extensions of traditional orientation programs / Tracy L. Skipper ... [et al.]; title: Technology in orientation / J.J. Brown and Cynthia L. Hernandez; title: Incorporating crisis planning and management into orientation programs / Dian D. Squire ... [et al.]; title: Orientation and first-year programs: a portrait of participating students / Maureen E. Wilson and Michael Dannells; title: Creating a developmental framework for new student orientation to address the needs of diverse populations / Archie Cubarrubia and Jennifer Schoen; title: Designing orientation and transition programs for transfer students / Shandol C. Hoover; title: Nontraditional is the new traditional: understanding today's college student / Michael Knox and Brittany Henderson; title: Building the case for collaboration in orientation programs: campus culture, politics and power / Beth M. Lingren Clark and Matthew J. Weigand; title: Assessment and evaluation in orientation / Robert Schwartz and Dennis Wiese; title: Reflections on the history of orientation, transition, and retention programs / Jeanine A. Ward-Roof and Kathy L. Guthrie.