Approaching College with Purpose

Approaching College with Purpose includes a textbook and student journal that focus on the importance of students beginning their educational journey with intention, developing good habits, creating a strong mindset, and acquiring strategies to ensure a successful transition to college. Delivered with a concise, approachable, and modern tone that respects students, the text and student journal emphasize the importance of communication, critical thinking, and collaboration. Ideal for First-Year Experience and College Success programs, the text and student journal are designed to acknowledge and respect students’ unique perspectives, focus on students owning their experience, put the emphasis on communication, especially writing, and provide just-in-time skill-building resources.

Special features throughout the text engage students as they learn the content:

• In Your Own Words: prompts for journaling to support mindfulness, metacognition, and reflection
• Critical Moments: illustrative case studies compiled from interviews and reflective journals of first-year students
• Think About It: prompts that help students develop reflection and metacognition as habituated practice
• Try This: quick, low-stakes activities that allow students to apply new concepts, explore new tools, and practice mindfulness
• Communication Situation: scenarios designed to develop rhetorical awareness about interpersonal communication, drawing attention to the context, and fostering intentionality about communication choices
• In Your Own Words: Keep. Quit. Start: directive-oriented journaling activities that ask three questions about chapter content: What is a habit or approach you want to (1) keep using? (2) quit using? (3) start doing?

The book’s introduction includes a special message to students from the authors: “…As you choose majors, build new friendships, discover new passions, and navigate setbacks, this book will support you in developing an intentional and purposeful approach to college, and life. This book’s ultimate goal is to set you on the path toward owning your own experiences, and approaching college, and your life, with purpose.”

Does your program incorporate soft skills development for students? Since every occupation needs these foundational skills, consider adding Soft Skills for the Workplace to your order.

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Approaching College with Purpose textbook and student journal focuses on the importance of students beginning their educational journey with intention, developing good habits, creating a strong mindset, and acquiring strategies to ensure a successful transition to college. Delivered with a concise, approachable, and modern tone that respects students, the text emphasizes the importance of communication, critical thinking, and collaboration. Ideal for First Year Experience and College Success programs, this text is designed to acknowledge and respect students’ unique perspectives, focus on students owning their experience, put the emphasis on communication, especially writing, and provide just-in-time skill-building resources.
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Table of Contents

Part I: The Transition to College

1. Begin with Purpose: Own Your College Experience
2. Mindset Matters
3. Engaging Diversity and Why It Matters
4. The Practice of Engaging Diversity
Part I Toolbox: Tools for Managing Assignments, Workload, and Projects

Part II: Collaborating and Communicating

5. Collaborating Effectively
6. Collaboration and Teamwork in College
7. Being a Writer
8. Writing in College
Part II Toolbox: Tools for Managing Your Writing Process and Projects

Part III: Beyond College

9. Investing in Your Well-Being
10. Investing in Your Future

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Chapter 2 (g-wonlinetextbooks.com College Success)

About the Author(s)

Amy Lee Ph.D - is inspired by Gloria Anzaldúa’s call to “do work that matters," and by Dr. Angela Davis's words, "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” Amy is a Morse Distinguished Professor at the University of Minnesota and serves as Director of the First Year Writing Program and Director of Faculty Engagement for the College of Liberal Art’s Career Readiness initiative. Her publications include eight books and numerous articles focused on undergraduate teaching, learning, and the first year experience. Her specialization is pedagogy and faculty development that centers equity and access. Amy has taught first year writing and basic writing; community engaged learning; U.S. literature; multicultural literature; and various graduate seminars. She is a recipient of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Distinguished Teaching Award and the University of Minnesota’s Morse Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education.

Margaret Delehanty Kelly, M.A. - is the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota. Margaret has an M.A. in English as a Second Language and has spent the last 17 years teaching at the University, 11 of those teaching courses in the First Year Experience program in the College of Education and Human Development. She is currently the Training and Development Coordinator for the instructors of the First Year Experience course. She loves working with first year students around challenging and critical issues.

Catherine Lee - is an undergraduate student at Occidental College majoring in History and minoring in Cognitive Science and East Asian Studies. She hopes to attend graduate school in the future. Some of her most formative experiences have come from studying abroad in China and South Korea, experiencing nature during her childhood in Minnesota, and traveling with her family. She is passionate about education, history, and food.

Maggie Bergeron, M.A. - is a Lecturer in the Dance Program at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches courses on Dance Pedagogy, Dance Production, and Career Readiness. She has spent the past two decades working as a professional dancer, choreographer, curator, and teacher. As a first-generation college graduate, she is committed to helping students navigate their own college experiences with plenty of tools and resources they can then take into the rest of their lives. Maggie graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy, holds a B.F.A. in Dance and an M.A. in Teaching and is a licensed K-12 Dance Instructor.