COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. Who is responsible for student success during the first year of college?
When it comes to increasing student retention and success, the first year of college is critical. Parents, high school teachers, counselors, faculty and students themselves all play a part in this important stage of a student’s academic career, according to John Gardner, executive director, The Policy Center on the First Year of College.
At 9 a.m. May 24, UCCS will host a keynote presentation by Gardner in the Upper Lodge of the Housing Village. The presentation, “Success in the First Year of College: Whose responsibility is It?” will address freshman college student success and retention.
Gardner has more than 32 years experience with the University of South Carolina and Brevard College, Brevard, N.C. He is a student retention specialist, first-year student advocate, and initiator and renowned scholar of the American first-year and senior-year reform movements.
Gardner is the recipient of numerous local and national professional awards including USC’s highest award for teaching excellence, the AMOCO Award for Outstanding Teaching (1975) and the Division of Student Affairs Faculty Award “for outstanding contributions…”(1976). In 1999, he received the John N. Gardner Inspirational Faculty Award given to a university faculty member who has made substantial contributions to the learning environment in campus residence hall life.
The presentation and campus parking is free and open to the public. Attendees must reserve a place via the Teaching and Learning Center’s events registration link:
http://tlc-xanadu.uccs.edu/php/eventsignup.php or call 262-4222 by May 19.
This event is sponsored by the Offices of the Vice Chancellors of Academic Affairs and Student Success, the University Leadership Development Institute, the Teaching and Learning Center, and the Freshman Seminar program at the UCCS.
UCCS, located on Austin Bluffs Parkway in northeast Colorado Springs, is the fastest growing university in Colorado and one of the fastest growing universities in the nation. The university offers 25 bachelor’s degrees, 17 master’s and two doctoral degrees. The campus enrolls about 7,800 students