First Year Experience Resources

Building on a strong tradition of sharing with each other, first-year program administrators have developed a number of web-based resources. Here are some of those resources.

• The First Year Experience: Are We Making it Better? (Barefoot)(under construction)
• Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Educations
• Positive Impact of Student Development Programs (under construction)

• First Year Initiative Benchmark Study

• Randy L. Swing, (Ed.), Proving and Improving: Strategies for Assessing the First College Year Columbia, SC: University of South Carolin, 2001.
• William M. McDonald and Associates, Creating Campus Community, San Fancisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2002.
• Richard J. Light, Making the Most of College, Cambridge, MA: Harvad University Press, 2001
• Alexander W. Astin, What Matters in College?, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1993.
• M. Lee Upcraft, John N. Gardner and Associates, The Freshman Year Experience: Helping Student Survive and Succeed in College, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1989.