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College Success: A Concise Practical Guide

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College Success: A Concise Practical Guide

Sixth Edition   Strickland, © 2015, 323 pages

College Success: A Concise Practical Guide is primarily designed for a full-semester course, but can also be used effectively as part of an orientation program or even by the individual student. The text is accompanied by a test bank and instructor's manual, PowerPoint slides, and online student resources including practice quizzes and flashcards.

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Instructor Manual
The Instructor's Manual consists of lecture and discussion topics, chapter outlines, learning objectives and class activities to better assist you with your teaching curriculum.
Test Bank
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These PowerPoint™ slides are used to visually emphasize key points throughout the chapters.
Supplemental Chapters
Two additional chapters are available for this textbook. These can be added to the text for your campus, or substituted for existing chapters.
Chapter 11 - Managing Money in College and in the Future: Cashing in on the College Experience
Chapter 12 - Maintaining Physical Balance: “An Apple a Day”

We also offer an alternate version of Chapter 9.
Chapter 9 - Psychological Balance During Your College Years: Walking the Tightrope
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About the Authors

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David L. Strickland, MA, is the director of the Student Success Program and a professor of sociology at East Georgia State College. He is coauthor of an introductory sociology textbook, My Sociology, now in its second edition. He is the author of the freshman orientation course textbook at East Georgia State College, College Success: A Concise Practical Guide (seventh edition). In addition to writing, he has taught college courses full time for more than twenty years. During that time he also served for three years as the director of institutional research for the college. Prior to teaching sociology, he conducted grant-funded health-care research at the Center for Rural Health and Research at Georgia Southern University and published numerous articles and chapters on the sociology of health care. He has been a pioneer in the area of online instruction and served as a coauthor for the eCore version of Introduction to Sociology, which was used by the thirty-four institutions of the University of Georgia. Strickland credits some of his insights regarding orientation to college to the fact that he, like a large number of the students that he teaches, was a first-generation college graduate. He is also co-author of an introductory sociology textbook, My Sociology, which is designed around some key pedagogical principles that he uses in his classes at EGSC. These are described in a recent publication (http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/jpps/vol5/iss2/4/). He has taught sociology full time for twenty years and is recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Faculty of the Year award. He has been a pioneer in the area of online instruction and served as one of three co-authors for the first eCore version of Introduction to Sociology, which was used throughout the University System of Georgia. In addition to teaching, Strickland also served for three years as the Director of Institutional Research for EGSC. He served as a member of the board for social science association and is currently a board member at large for the Georgia Sociological Association. For four years prior to teaching sociology, he conducted grant-funded health care research at the Center for Rural Health and Research at Georgia Southern University and published numerous articles and chapters on the sociology of health care. A recent vita is available online at http://faculty.ega.edu/facweb/strickland/VITA/Strickland_David__2015.pdf
Carol Strickland person
Carol J. Strickland, PhD, RN, is retired from teaching but served for seven years as associate professor of nursing and director of nursing research at Georgia Southern University School of Nursing in Statesboro, Georgia. She worked in nursing at the University of Rochester School of Nursing in Rochester, New York, for twenty-four years, where she received her PhD in nursing. Her interests and clinical experiences are in psychiatric mental health nursing, combining her knowledge of nursing with that of the neuropsychological and neuroimmunological functioning of the human brain. She has published numerous articles in the area of psychiatric mental health nursing practice, psychoneuroimmunology, and sociology. She was also recently appointed to the editorial review board of the Journal of the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. Strickland states that her knowledge of first-year experiences comes both from having served as an instructor/mentor in a first-year experience course at the University of Rochester and from immersion in the literature. In addition, she was a first-generation college graduate. She has gained insights into the value of having a book designed to guide the mentorship process that is so essential to helping students transition from high school to college: "In this way, we pass on core competencies and the knowledge to facilitate educated, visionary, and dedicated scholars who will be the leaders, teachers, and mentors of tomorrow."

Description

College Success: A Concise Practical Guide, by Strickland and Strickland, has helped more than 10,000 students make the transition from high school to college. This sixth edition text has been perfected over almost a decade with excellent results. It is primarily designed for a full-semester course, but can also be used effectively as part of an orientation program, or even by the individual student. With its student-friendly format and learner-centered approach, College Success captures the interest of students and keeps them engaged throughout the semester. The text is accompanied by a test bank and instructor's manual, PowerPoint slides, and online student resources including practice quizzes and flashcards.

Brief Table of Contents:

  1. Adjusting to College: We're Not in High School Anymore!
  2. Organizing: Plan Your Work and Then Work Your Plan
  3. Listening and Taking Notes: Do You Hear What I Hear?
  4. Reading: What They Never Taught You in Kindergarten!
  5. Focus on Learning: Why Am I Really in College?
  6. Learning Styles: How Do I Learn Best?
  7. Writing College Papers: I Have a Paper Due!
  8. Connecting to Resources: People, Places, and Things
  9. Balancing College Life: Walking the Tightrope
  10. Planning for the Future: What Courses Should I Take?

Each chapter begins with a chapter roadmap (including a brief chapter summary, chapter learning goals, and a study checklist) and a critical thinking activity. Reading comprehension questions are embedded throughout each chapter. These are specifically designed to help students assess and improve their knowledge, literal comprehension, inferential comprehension, and analytic skills. Links to online resources that complement the chapter are also provided. Each chapter concludes with study guide pages, learning activities and practical assignments, which provide valuable experiences and enrichment for students.

The underlying educational goals aim to help students:

  • Make the all-important transition to a university culture of scholarship
  • Adopt the role of life-long scholar as their predominant identity
  • Take responsibility for their own learning outcomes
  • Develop high-level skills in comprehension and analysis
  • Learn how to create effective study materials from stated learning objectives
  • Develop the habit of properly preparing for class
  • Become comfortable and effective interacting in a higher-education setting
  • Develop critical thinking skills beyond the high school level

This text can be easily customized by:

  • Adding, deleting or rearranging sections or chapters
  • Editing any of the text or illustrations throughout the textbook - down to the word level
  • Creating additional assignments or in-class exercises
  • Creating additional lab content or student resources
  • Adding campus-specific calendars, maps, directories, resource lists, etc.

David Strickland, MA, is director of the Student Success Program and an associate professor of sociology at East Georgia State College (EGSC). In addition to writing, he has taught college courses for more than nineteen years, and has been involved in student success for more than a decade. Strickland credits some of his insights into college success to the fact that he - like a large number of his students - was a first-generation college graduate.

Carol Strickland, PhD, RN, served for 23 years as a nursing educator, most recently as an associate professor of nursing and director of nursing research at the Georgia Southern University School of Nursing. Prior to that, she was an assistant professor of nursing and an instructor of the first-year experience course at the University of Rochester.



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