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Cuseo Collection
A professor of psychology at Marymount College in Palos Verde, CA, Joe Cuseo has contributed a great deal of scholarship to the field of the First-Year Experience. He has openly shared much of his work through the First-Year Experience email list, and he has given us permission to include his work here as well. In addition to the writing, his bibliographies point us to substantial work in the field of higher education.
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- Academic Advising:
- Academic Advisement and Student Retention: Empirical Connections & Systemic Interventions
- "Decided," "Undecided," and "In Transition": Implications for Academic Advisement, Career Counseling, & Student Retention
- Assessment/Program Evaluation:
- Assessment of Academic Advisors and Academic Advising Programs
- Assessment of the First-Year Seminar: Research-Based Guidelines for Course & Program Evaluation
- Student Evaluation of Co-Curricular Programming
- A Taxonomy of Potential Assessment Outcomes
- Career/Life Planning:
- How the College Experience & College Degree Improves Your Quality of Life
- Identifying Educational Quality: College-Choice Guidelines for Students, Parents, & Counselors
- The Liberal Arts, Your College Major, and Your Future Career(s): Myths & Realities
- The Transfer Transition from 2-Year to 4-Year Institution: Critical Issues & Promising Practices
- Classroom Management:
- The Case for Class-Attendance Policies during the First Year of College
- Engaging Students:
- Active Learning: Definition, Justification, and Facilitation
- Common Readings
- Faculty-Student Contact Outside The Classroom: Supporting Evidence & Promoting Practices
- First-Year Experience:
- Target Areas for Development of a Comprehensive First-Year Experience Program
- Unifying Academic & Student Affairs: Building Bridges Between The Curriculum & Co-Curriculum
- First-Year Seminars:
- The Empirical Case for The Positive Impact Of The First-Year Seminar Research On Student Outcomes
- Mentoring First-Year Students:
- The Case for Faculty-Student Mentoring
- Recruitment and Retention:
- Instruments Designed To Identify "Withdrawal-Prone" Students/Instruments Designed To Identify Student Learning Habits, Attitudes, & Motivation
- "Red Flags": Behavioral Indicators of Potential Student Attrition
- The Role Of College Faculty In Promoting Student Retention/Instructional Strategies For Reducing Student Attrition
- Schools and Colleges Collaborations:
- Collaboration Between Schools & Colleges, A.K.A., School-College Partnerships