First Year Experience Program

National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina. Includes a listing of First Year Learning Resources and Suggested Readings

FYE-LIST (Discussion List). A mailing list for the discussion of experiences of first-year college students. Open membership. To subscribe to the FYE-LIST, address an e-mail to listserv@vm.sc.edu and include in the message area the following command:
subscribe fye-list yourfirstname yourlastname . . . or send a message to fyeconf@gwm.sc.edu and ask to be added to the listserv.

Exploring the Evidence: Reporting Outcomes of First-Year Experience. (1998). Columbia, SC: National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience, University of South Carolina.

Fact file: The year's freshmen: A statistical profile. (1999). Chronicle of Higher Education, 45 (21), A48-A49.

Gilbert, S., et al. (1997). From Best Intention to Best Practices: The First-Year Experience in Canadian Postsecondary Education (Monograph #22). Columbia, SC: National Resource Center for the Freshman Year Experience, University of South Carolina. Also available on ERIC Microfiche, ED411920.

Higher Education Research Institute. (1997). The American Freshman, 1996. Los Angeles: University of California.

Maduros, A. S. (1989). Augsburg College. (First year experience creates a community of learners). Liberal Education, 75, 28-29.

Sonntag, G. (1999). Using technology in a first year experience course (at California State University, San Marcos). College & Undergraduate Libraries, 6 (1), 1-16.

University of Vermont's Symposium on the First Year Experience. Includes a presentation on "Learning Communities".