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Columns::March 10, 2003

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Lecture to consider approaches to first year of college

The next lecture in the “Campus Conversations” series sponsored by the Institute for Higher Education will focus on the first year of college. Randy L. Swing will speak at 4 p.m. on March 10 in room 101 of Meigs Hall on “The First College Year: Orchestrating Support and Challenge for First-Year Students.” The lecture is open free to the public.
The presentation will briefly review selected findings from a national survey of current practices in the first college year and provide an overview of the extensive array of efforts institutions are using to improve the learning outcomes and student success for first-year students.
The core message of this presentation is that successful first-year education is an expression of an intentional and orchestrated vision of the first college year. A reception will follow the lecture.
Swing serves as co-director of the Policy Center on the First Year of College, located in Brevard, N.C.
He holds a Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Georgia, M.A. and Ed.S. degrees in student development from Appalachian State University and a B.A. in psychology from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

--Beth Roberts

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