A portfolio of readings and activities for new college students, all based in student persistence research.

Reading and activities include:

* Exploring Your Learning Profile: personality and learning styles, developing healthy attitudes and self-perceptions, learning the best way for you to study, building a support system.
* Getting Engaged in Learning and College: getting along with professors, making collegial friends.
* Life Management Plan: exploring values and goals, setting short and long term goals, managing conflict.
* What is Learning?: expectations of college learning, self-regulated learning, active learning, deep learning.
* Designing Study Maps: creating study ssytems for each class.
* Learning Strategies for Different Academic Courses: studying for history, science, composition, behavioral sciences, and math.

These important college-critical skills can be used by a variety of students:

* College students can purchase and use activities on their own to adjust to college.
* High school students perparing for college and read the summer before and develop strategies to use during the first few weeks of their college experience.
* Returning adults can use the portfolios to get back in the groove of being in college.
* Counselors can use the activities when they work one-on-one with students.
ISBN: 0-940287-36-6 ~ $19.95