 | Upcraft, Gardner, et. al. The Freshman Year Experience: Helping Students Survive and Succeed in College |
First year success is defined as:
- developing academic/intellectual competence
- establishing/maintaining interpersonal relationships
- developing identity
- deciding on a career & lifestyle
- maintaining personal health & wellness
- developing an integrated philosophy of life
Identity is when the way we see ourselves is consistent with the ways others see us.
During the first-year, students must experience themselves, the campus, higher education.
Consider pre-enrollment variables (personal charecteristics, demographics, culture) and institutional charecteristics and climate.
Education must:
- provide skills and knowledge needed to live in the world
- provide hope
- give a sense of responsibility
- give students feeling of effiacy
Student involvement refers to the amount of physical and psychological energy that the students devotes to the academic experience.
Causes of attrition:
- Boredom
- Irrelevancy
- Limited or unrealistic expectations
- Academic underpreparedness
- Transition/adjustment difficulties
- Lack of certainty aout major/career
- Dissonance/incompatibility
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