Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programs: A Guide for Practitioners
Praise for Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programs
"An essential guide to the thorny task of not only developing successful first-year programs, the critical building blocks for student college completion, but also sustaining them over time. It should be at the top of the reading list of all faculty, staff, and administrators concerned with making substantial improvements in student success in the first year of college."
--Vincent Tinto, Distinguished University Professor, Syracuse University
"Grounded in scholarly literature and higher education theory, Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programs provides a much-needed next-generation resource to advance a comprehensive, integrated, and multi-faceted first-year experience as well as practical guidance to educators who want to become more effective first-year student advocates."
--Jillian Kinzie, associate director, Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research, NSSE Institute
"The authors do an excellent job both of providing a conceptual framework for the first year and of grounding their program descriptions in the work of a diverse range of campuses, providing exemplars of good practice, centered on assessment, in enhancing student academic achievement and persistence. The book will be of use both to policy makers and administrators focused on enhancing student success and to practitioners who will make good use of excellent observations and recommendations."
--Scott Evenbeck, president, The New Community College at CUNY
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Rated 5 starsFun and Important Book
Fascinating story about the history of technology and capital markets. More fun than most books I've read, it's like riding a roller-coaster through history. By giving us a detailed account of how these areas are interwoven, Kessler also looks to the future - showing how important it is for America (and the world) to make smart decisions that will lead to further advances. Chris "SparkGuy" Downie SparkPeople Founder & ...
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Rated 5 starsGreat story telling about history.
Kessler has the unique ability to tie the history of finance, technology, and Wall Street shenanigans into a great tale. This book would make a great introductory textbook for highschool and college students about "How We Got There". The book is a fun read, and I learned a great deal about history. The underlying cautionary tale is to remember nothing is new, history just repeats itself; the same mistakes about "this time...
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Rated 5 starsEntertaining stories that teach principles of economic growth
In his last book, "Running Money" Andy Kessler underscored his arguments with breezy historical accounts that demonstrated the quirks of history and what made the industrial revolution go. "How We Got Here" is a book length version of that history and pulls it more fully what has been happening to intellectual property and capital markets during the past decade. Kessler tells these stories because he wants his readers to...
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Rated 5 starsEveryone should read this
I had a hard time putting this book down after I started reading it. There was one fact after another concerning major technological leaps, how they were manipulated by influential people of their day. and how they subsequently affected the lives of everyone. The book is very easy to read, which is amazing considering the vast subject coverage. The author has a great sense of humor and a great grasp of history. This is...
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Rated 5 starsCrucial narrative on how the world worked
Andy Kessler tells it like it is and was. This book is one of the most enlightening and entertaining books on the history of technology. But more importantly he combines technology and finance - you get a much more clear understanding of why and how things evolved. It is a must read for anybody interested in how the world works, and how it might evolve in the future. I was pleasantly surprised that I learned some things...
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