Your College Experience: Strategies for Success

Experts in their field, John N. Gardner, A. Jerome Jewler, and Betsy O. Barefoot team up to bring students a phenomenal resource in Your College Experience: Strategies for Success, ISBN 9780312687748. This text boasts a myriad of helpful new and updated features including extended coverage and application exercises as well as a stronger emphasis on self-assessment of strengths. In addition to the text itself, a fantastic package of supplemental instructional materials adds to both the student's and instructor's experience. This added bonus includes an Instructor's Annotated Edition, Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint slides, videos, and a Test Bank. Heading up this powerful authoring team is John N. Gardner. Gardner has over 40 years of experience directing and instructing in the most widely emulated first-year seminar in the country, the University 101 course at the University of South Carolina (USC), Columbia. He has been honored with his university's highest award for teaching excellence and currently serves as the founding executive director of the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at USC, the Policy Center on the First Year of College and most recently the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education (www.jngi.org), the latter two based in Brevard, N.C. The collaborative efforts of John N. Gardner, A. Jerome Jewler, and Betsy O. Barefoot effectively organize the contents of Your College Experience: Strategies for Success across 28 comprehensive and helpful chapters. Covering a myriad of topics that will prove useful to the new and incoming student, chapters devote attention to topics such as making a student-teacher connection, time management, learning styles, writing and speaking for success, choosing a major and planning a career, as well as campus involvement. Other important facets of university life addressed include leadership across the campus, wellness, managing stress, sexual decisions, alcohol and other drugs, and finally, managing your money.