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Home/Core Initiatives/Professional Development/Resources: Teaching Pedagogies/Resource: Enhancing the First-Year Experience

Resource: Enhancing the First-Year Experience

Dana Bekurs (Facilitator) (BSC), Jennifer Leach (Southwestern), Jennifer Mathews (Sewanee), Jason Rodocker (WLU), Tiffany Norris (BSC), Ashley Kistler (Rollins), and Brad Harmon (Furman) 

Resource Library:

  • Diversity and Equity in Orientation:
Birmingham-Southern College from If You Really Knew Me Activity_Download
Info about diversity in orientationDownload
UL Lafayette Creating an Inclusive Campus CommunityDownload
  • First-Year Seminar – Assessment:
Article Examining the National Picture of Assessment of First-Year Seminars, a High-Impact Educational Practice [pdf]Download
Centre College Assessment infoDownload
Joe Cuseo FYE listserv – FYS-assess-instrumentsDownload
Joe Cuseo FYS-assessment-10Download
Southwestern FYS-AES Assessment Plan 2019-20 FINALDownload
Trinity University Pathways Reasoned Discussion Rubric – draftDownload
Trinity University Rubric for FYE Assessment Writing _ Information LiteracyDownload
Trinity University Rubric for FYE Oral CommunicationDownload
University of North Carolina Greensboro hhs125 course evaluation results-fall 2020, 1-4-21Download
University of North Carolina Greensboro hhs125 course evaluation-fall 2020, 1-4-21Download
  • First-Year Seminar – Co-Curricular Components:
Co-curricular component examples from various universitiesDownload
William Peace University FYSS Facts Student Quotes Learning OutcomesDownload
William Peace University List of Programs for FYSS- FA 19Download
  • First-Year Seminar – Co-Curricular Components- Bryant University Gateway Sessions:
Bryant University Fall 2019 Cocurricular tracking sheetDownload
Bryant University Fall 2020 ACE Workshop ScheduleDownload
Bryant University Fall 2020 Gateway Sessions Full Schedule_Download
Bryant University Fall 2020 List of Arts and Sciences eventsDownload
Bryant University GFCL Fall 2020 GFCL syllabusDownload
Bryant University Special Events FA19-SP20Download
Bryant University The First-Year Gateway Experience-HazardfinalDownload
Bryant University Understanding and Accessing Fall 2019 Co-curriculars SampleDownload
  • First-Year Seminar – Course Descriptions:
Course Descriptions examples from various universitiesDownload
Virginia Commonwealth course descriptionsDownload
  • First-Year Seminar – Faculty, Instructors & Administrative Info:
Joe Cuseo faculty-develoment-program-componentsDownload
Joe Cuseo Faculty-Involvement-FYE-student-successDownload
Joe Cuseo faculty-student-engagementmentoring-18Download
Joe Cuseo FYS-administrationDownload
Joe Cuseo FYS-faculty-reward-compensationDownload
Joe Cuseo FYS-Instructor-Training-Content-15Download
Sewanee- Copy of Information for Teaching in FYPDownload
Sewanee-Challenges for Faculty Participation Copy of Answers on FYP Questionnaire About Faculty Participation (Responses)Download
  • First-Year Seminar – Sample Syllabi:
Centre FYC Syllabus Template – Fall 2021 – Updated 5.19.21Download
Furman FY Seminar syllabiDownload
Gettysburg crypto syllabus F19Download
Gettysburg FYS 166-4 Syllabus F19 Final[1]Download
Gettysburg FYS- Rock and Film SyllabusDownload
Gettysburg FYS Soldiers_ Tales 2018Download
Gettysburg FYS SyllabusDownload
Gettysburg FYS106_3_SSTEM_Syllabus_F18Download
Gettysburg Only a Game_2019_SyllabusDownload
Macalister College Dosh FYC syllabusDownload
Macalister College Lush FYCDownload
Rollins College RCCCaribbeansyllabusDownload
Rollins Collins 2020 RCC 300 syllabusDownload
Sewanee FYRP 110 SyllabusDownload
Sewanee FYRP 118 SyllabusDownload
Trinity Hughes_Erickson – Monsters FYE Syllabus Fall 2020Download
Trinity HUMADownload
UL Lafayette Mastering the First Year 1Download
UL Lafayette Mastering the First Year 2Download
UL Lafayette Mastering the First Year 3Download
UL Lafayette Topic based Mental Health What is ItDownload
UL Lafayette Topic based SneakerologyDownload
UL Lafayette Topic based Starting Your Own BusinessDownload
UL Lafayette UNIV 100 Fall 2018 Enginering LLC Course SyllabusDownload
Univ of North Carolina Greensboro hhs125 course syllabus for fyeDownload
University of South Carolina Sample SyllabiDownload
Virginia Commonwealth Fall 2020 UNIV 191 syllabus (Carrier)Download
Virginia Commonwealth MOC – Course Syllabus 40942 – GoodeDownload
Virginia Commonwealth Syllabus – BFO 191 – Codie FrankDownload
Virginia Commonwealth UNIV 191 – PreNursing – StubbsDownload
Virginia Commonwealth UNIV 191 Syllabus – Fall 2020 – ConeDownload
Virginia Commonwealth UNIV 191 Syllabus THUR Fall 2020 — Women of Color (Jackson)Download
Virginia Commonwealth You First fall 2020-1 – RankinDownload
Washington and Lee 2024_W_L FYE 100_Syllabus_8_19_20Download
  • First-Year Seminar – Signature Programs:
Points of Pride from different schools in a documentDownload
  • First-Year Seminar – Signature Programs – Peer Mentor Programs:
Peer Mentor programs from various universitiesDownload
Rollins College Peer Mentor Contract FallDownload
Rollins College Peer Mentor Faculty ContractDownload
Sewanee Copy of FYP Mentor 2019 DutiesDownload
  • First-Year Seminar – Research and Publications:
Article_ McGrath et al FYP submitted (1)Download
Article_ Surveying the National Landscape of First-Year Seminars- a High-Impact Practice [pdf]Download
Article_ Transfer specific FYSDownload
National Resource Center for the First-Year PublicationsDownload
  • Mental Health and First-Year Students:
Mental Health and Wellbeing at ACSDownload

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