Publication Page- John N. Gardner

Publications from John N. Gardner

Gardner, J.N. The First-Year Experience: The Founder’s Journey; Sterling, Virginia, Stylus Publishing, 2023.
Gardner, J.N., Rosenberg, M.J. and Koch, A.J. Handbook for Creating a More Equitable and Successful Postsecondary System; Sterling, Virginia, Stylus Publishing, 2021.
Felten, P., Gardner, J.N., Schroder, C.C, Lambert, L.M., & Barefoot, B.O. (2016). The undergraduate experience: Focusing institutions on what matters most. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Greenfield, G.M., Keup, J.R. & Gardner, J.N. (2013) Developing and sustaining successful first-year programs. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Hunter, M. S., Tobolowsky, B. F., & Gardner, J. N. (2009). Helping sophomores succeed: Understanding and improving the second-year experience. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Barefoot, B. O., Gardner, J. N., Cutright, M., Morris, L. V., Schroeder, C. S., Schwartz, S. W., Siegel, M. J., & Swing, R. L. (2005). Achieving and sustaining institutional excellence for the first year of college. San Francisco, CA: Jossey- Bass.
Upcraft, M. L., Gardner, J. N., Barefoot, B. O., and Associates. (2005). Challenging and supporting the first-year student: A handbook for improving the first college year. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Gardner, J.N., & Van Der Veer, G. (1997). The senior year experience: Facilitating integration, reflection, closure, and transition. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.
Upcraft, M.L., & Gardner, J.N. (1989). The freshman year experience: Helping students survive and succeed in college. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Books (Textbooks for Undergraduate Students)

Gardner, J. N., & Barefoot, B. O. Your college experience. 2021 (Fourteenth Edition). New York, NY: Macmillan.
Gardner, J.N. and Barefoot, B.O. 2020 Understanding Your College Experience;Edition, Macmillan Higher Education.
Gardner, J. N., & Barefoot, B. O. Your college experience. 2018(Thirteenth Edition). New York, NY: Macmillan.
Gardner, J.N., & Barefoot, B.O. (2019). Step by step to college and career success (Eigth Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N., Barefoot, B.O., & Farakish, N. (2017). Understanding your college experience (Second Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St.Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N., & Barefoot, B.O. (2017). Step by step to college and career success (Seventh Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N., & Barefoot, B.O. (2017). Your college experience (Concise Twelfth Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N., & Barefoot, B.O. (2016). Your college experience (Twelfth Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N., Barefoot, B.O., & Farakish, N., (2015). Your college experience (Two- Year College Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N, & Barefoot, B.O. (2015). Step by step to college and career success (Sixth Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N., & Barefoot, B.O. (2015). Your college experience (Concise Eleventh Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N., & Barefoot, B.O. (2014). Your college experience (Eleventh Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N, & Barefoot, B.O. (2013). Step by step to college and career success (Fifth Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N., & Barefoot, B.O. (2013). Your college experience, strategies for success (Study Skills Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St.Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N., & Barefoot, B.O. (2012). Your college experience (Tenth edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St.Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N., Jewler, A.J., & Barefoot, B.O. (2012). Your college experience (Concise Ninth Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St.Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N., Jewler, A.J., & Barefoot, B.O. (2011). Your college experience (Ninth Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St.Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N, & Barefoot, B.O. (2011). Step by step to college and career success (Fourth Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N., Jewler, A. J., & Barefoot, B. O. (2010). Your college experience (Concise Eighth Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N, & Barefoot, B.O. (2010). Step by step to college and career success (Third Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N, & Barefoot, B.O. (2008) Step by step to college and career success (Second Edition). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
Gardner, J.N., Jewler, A. J. & Barefoot, B. O. (2007). Your college experience (Eighth edition). Boston, MA: Cengage Publishers.
Gardner, J.N., Jewler, A.J., & Barefoot, B. O. (2007). Your college experience (Concise Seventh edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., Jewler, A. J., & Barefoot, B. O. (2006). Your college experience (Seventh edition). Boston, MA: Cengage Publishers.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A.J. (2006). Your college experience (Concise Sixth edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A.J. (2006). Step by step to college and career success. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A.J. (2006) The Essential College Experience With Readings, Sixth Edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A.J. (2005). Your college experience: Expanded reader (Fifth Edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A. J. (2005). Your college experience (Sixth edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A.J. (2004). Your college experience (Concise Fifth edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A. J. (2003). Your college experience (Fifth edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A.J. (2001). Your college experience (Concise Fourth edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A.J. (2000). Your college experience (Fourth edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A.J. (1998). Your college experience (Concise Third edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A.J. (1997). Your college experience (Third edition), Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A. J. (1997). Your college experience (Expanded reader edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A.J. (1997). Your college experience (Expanded workbook edition), Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A.J. (1996). Your college experience (Concise Second Edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A.J. (1995). Your college experience (Second Edition.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Hartel, W., Schwartz, S., Blume, S., & Gardner, J. N. (1994). Ready for the real world: The senior year experience. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Jewler, A.J. & Gardner, J.N.. (1993). Your college experience (Concise edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A.J. (1992). Your college experience. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A.J. (1989). College is only the beginning (Second edition.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Jewler, A.J., & Gardner, J.N. (1987). Step by step to college success. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N., & Jewler, A.J. (1985). College is only the beginning. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Gardner, J.N. (1983). A guide for orientation course instructors (Second edition). New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.
Gardner, J.N. (198l). User’s guide for orientation course instructors. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston. (To accompany T. Walter & A. Siebert, Student success. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston)

Articles and Book Chapters

Gardner, J.N. Introduction: Fifty Years Later: Looking Back, Looking Ahead, Giving Credit,
And Sustaining and Adapting the Vision in press 2022;” John N. Gardner; in Friedman, D et al’ Educational Experiment to Standard Bearer: The Evolution and Success of University 101; Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press, 2022.
Pistilli, M.D. and Gardner, J.N. 2022, in press. The Emergence of the Newest “Professional Class in U.S. Higher Education; in McIntosh, E, and Nutt, D. The Impact of the Integrated Practitioner in Higher Education Studies in Blended Professionalism. United Kingdom.
Friedman, D., Gardner, J.N. Conclusion: The South Carolina Model Lessons Learned and Recommendations; in press 2022; in Educational Experiment to Standard Bearer: The Evolution and Success of University 101; Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press.
Gardner, J.N, Introduction,” in press 2022. Character Development in College Students, Volume III; John M. Whiteley, University of California Irvine, in press 2022.
Barefoot, B.O., & Gardner, J.N. (2017). Foreword. In J.L. Moore & R. Bass, Understanding writing transfer implications for transformative student learning in higher education. Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Gardner, J.N. (2012). Foreword. In L. Ward, M.J. Siegel, & Z. Davenport, First- generation college students: Understanding and improving the experience from recruitment to commencement. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Alexander, J.S., & Gardner, J.N. (2009). Beyond retention: a comprehensive approach to the first college year. About Campus, 14, 18-26.
Walters, E., Gardner, J., & Swing, R. (2009, Summer). Making student success a priority. Trustee Quarterly, 14-15.
Gardner, J. N. (2009). Keeping the faith in hard times: John Gardner’s twelve steps for New Jersey first-year advocates. NJANSA News, 1(1).
Gardner, J. N. (2008). Civic engagement: The transforming theme for the first college year. In M. J. LaBare, First-year civic engagement: Sound foundations for college, citizenship and democracy. New York, NY: The New York Times; Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.
Gardner, J. N. (2008). Action steps to move the first-year civic engagement agenda forward. In M. J. LaBare, First-year civic engagement: Sound foundations for college, citizenship and democracy. New York, NY: The New York Times; Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.
Gardner, J. N., & Koch, A. K. (2007). Preface. In L. Hardesty (Ed.), The role of the library in the first college year. (Monograph No. 45). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition; Association of College & Research Libraries.
Gardner, J.N. (2006). Foreword. In G. Kramer & Associates, Fostering student success in the campus community. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Koch, A. K., & Gardner, J. N. (2006). The history of the first-year experience in the United States: Lessons from the past, practices in the present, and implications for the future. In A. Hamana & T. Kawashima, (Eds.), First-year education in Japan and abroad: Its history, theory and practice. Tokyo, Japan: Maruzen.
Gardner, J. N. (2004). Foreword: An invitation for reflection. In R. L Mitchell, Flying through clouds: Navigating uncertainty and change in the student affairs profession. Madison, WI: Atwood Publishing.
Gardner, J. N. (2004). Introduction. In J. R. Keup & E. B. Stolzenberg, The 2003 Your First College Year Survey: Exploring the academic and personal experiences of first-year students (Monograph No. 40). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition.
Gardner, J. N., & Hardesty, L., (2004, May). The reform movement for the first-year experience: What is the role of librarians? Library Issues, Briefings for Faculty and Administrators, 1-4.
Gardner, J. N. (2003, Fall). The first-year experience as the critical, but often neglected, foundation for civic engagement. Campus Compact Reader, 10-16.
Gardner, J.N., & Hansen, D. A. (2003). Perspectives on the future of orientation. In J. Ward-Roof & C. Hatch (Eds.), Designing successful transitions: A guide for orienting students to college (Monograph No. 13, 2^nd Edition). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition.
Gardner, J. N. (2002). Foreword. In E. Zlotkowski (Ed.), Service-learning and the first- year experience: Preparing students for personal success and civic responsibility. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition.
Gardner, J. N. (2002). What, so what, now what: Reflections, findings, and conclusions on the relationship of service learning to strengthening the first college year. In E. Zlotkowski (Ed.), Service learning and the first-year experience: Preparing students for personal success and civic responsibility. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition.
Gardner, J. N. (2002). Why department chairs are critical to the success of first-year students. The Department Chair, 12(3), 19-20.
Gardner, J. N., interview with (2002). Improving first year: Good for students and departments. Academic Leader, 18(4), 4, 8.
Barefoot, B. O., & Gardner, J. N. (2002). The first-year experience. In J.F. Forest & K. Kinser, (Eds.). Higher education in the United States: An encyclopedia (2 Volumes). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Gardner, J. N., Siegel, M. J., & Cutright, M. (2001, Fall). Focusing on the first-year student. Priorities, A publication of the Association of Governing Boards.
Gardner, J. N. (2001). Foreword. In S. L Hamid (Ed.). Peer leadership: A primer on program essentials (Monograph No. 32). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition.
Gardner, J. N. (2001, Spring). Gardner reflects on FYE at 20. FYE: Newsletter of the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, (pp. 1-2, 4).
Hamid, S. L., & Gardner, J. N. (2001). Summary and recommendations. In S. L Hamid (Ed.), Peer leadership: A primer on program essentials (Monograph No. 32). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition.
Korschgen, A., Fuller, R., & Gardner, J. N. (2001, February). The impact of presidential migration. AAHE Bulletin, 3-6.
Gardner, J. N., Pattengale, J., & Schreiner, L. A. (2000). The sophomore year: Summary and recommendations. In L. A. Schreiner and J. Pattengale (Eds.), Visible solutions for invisible students: Helping sophomores succeed (Monograph No. 31). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition.
Gardner, J. N. (2000, Fall). The changing roles of developmental educators. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 31(1), 5-18.
Gardner, J. N., Barefoot, B. O., & Swing, R. L. (2000). Guidelines for evaluating the first-year experience: Two- and four-year editions. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition.
Spann, M. (2000). Rethinking developmental education: A conversation with John N. Gardner. Journal of Developmental Education, 24(1), 22-24, 26, 28.
Gardner, J. N. (1999). Foreword. In M. S. Hunter (Ed.), Solid foundations: Building success for first-year seminars through instructor training and development (Monograph No. 29). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition.
Gardner, J. N., & Hunter, M. S. (1999). Outcomes and future directions of instructor training programs. In M. S. Hunter (Ed.), Solid foundations: Building success for first-year seminars through instructor training and development (Monograph No. 29). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition.
Gardner, J. N. (March/April 1999). The senior year experience. About Campus, pp. 5-11. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Gardner, J., & Sullivan, B. (1999). The national newspaper: A tool for educational empowerment. In S. Knowlton & B. Barefoot (Eds.), Using national newspapers in the college classroom: Resources to improve teaching and learning (Monograph No. 28). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.
Gardner, J., & Levine, J. (1999). Trends and future directions. In J. Levine (Ed.), Learning communities: New structures, new partnerships for learning (Monograph No. 26) (pp. 109-114). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.
Barefoot, B., Fidler, D., Gardner, J., Moore, P., & Roberts, M.(1999). A natural linkage—The first-year seminar and the learning community. In J. Levine (Ed.), Learning communities: New structures, new partnerships for learning (Monograph No. 26) (pp. 77-86). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The Fist-Year Experience and Students in Transition.
Gardner, J.N. (1998, January). Bridging the gap: Enhancing partnerships in academic affairs and student affairs. Net Results, The On-line Magazine of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.
Gardner, J.N. (1998). What department chairs can do to foster student retention. The Department Chair, (8)3, 22-23. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company.
Gardner, J.N. (1997). Conclusion. In R. Kincaid (Ed.), Student Employment: Linking college and the workplace (Monograph No. 23). Columbia, SC: National Resource Center for The Freshman Year Experience and Students in Transition.
Gilbert, S., Chapman, J., Dietsche, P., Grayson, P., & Gardner, J. (1997). From best intentions to best practices: The first- year experience in Canadian postsecondary education (Monograph No. 22). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The Freshman Year Experience and Students in Transition.
Gardner, J.N. (November/December 1996). Helping America’s first-generation college students. About Campus, pp 31-32. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Gardner, J.N. (1996). Power to the peers. Keystone Newsletter. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.
Gardner, J.N. (1996). Reflections on the first-year residential experience. In W. Zeller, D. Fidler, & B. Barefoot (Eds.), Residence life programs and the first-year experience (Monograph No. 5, 2nd Ed.). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The Freshman Year Experience/ Association of College and University Housing Officers -International.
Hankin, J.N., & Gardner, J.N. (1996). The freshman year experience: A philosophy for higher education in the new millennium. In J.N. Hankin (Ed.), The community college: Opportunity and access for America’s first-year students (Monograph No. 19). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The Freshman Year Experience and Students in Transition.
Gardner, J.N. (1995). Perspectives on academic advising for first-year students: Present and future. In M. L. Upcraft & G.L. Kramer (Eds.), First-year academic advising: Patterns in the present: Pathways to the future (Monograph No. 18). Columbia, SC: National Resource Center for The Freshman Year Experience and Students in Transition/National Academic Advising Association.
Barefoot, B.O., & Gardner, J.N. (1993). The freshman orientation seminar: Extending the benefits of traditional orientation. In M. L. Upcraft et al. (Eds.), Designing successful transitions: A guide for orienting students to college (Monograph No. 13). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The Freshman Year Experience/National Orientation Directors Association.
Gardner, J.N., & Hansen, D.A. (1993). Perspectives on the future of orientation. In M. L. Upcraft et al. (Eds.), Designing successful transitions: A guide for orienting students to college(Monograph No. l3). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The Freshman Year Experience/National Orientation Directors Association.
Gardner, J.N. (1991). Reflections on the first-year residential experience. In W. Zeller, D. Fidler, & B. Barefoot (Eds.), Residence life programs and the first-year experience (Monograph No. 5). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for The Freshman Year Experience/ Association of College and University Housing Officers – International.
Gardner, J.N., Decker, D., & McNairy, F.G. (1986). Taking the library to freshman students via the freshman seminar concept. Advances in Library Administration and Organization, 6, 153-171.
Gardner, J.N. (1986). Student affairs and academic affairs: Bridging the gap. Carolina View, 2, 46-49. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, Division of Student Affairs.
Gardner, J.N. (1986). The freshman year experience. College and University, 61(4), 261-274.
Gardner, J.N., & Hebron, C. (1986, February 5). Triumph over the first year blues. The London Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 16.
Gardner, J.N. (1981, February). University 101: A concept for improving university teaching and learning. Resources in Education. (ERIC Document #ED 192706)
Gardner, J.N. (1981). Developing faculty as facilitators and mentors. In V. A. Harren (Ed.), Facilitating student’s career development, New Directions for Student Services, 14. (pp 67-79). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Gardner, J.N. (1980, January). Continuing orientation for credit and student affairs ‘faculty’ – University l0l. National Orientation Directors Bulletin, pp. 4-5.
Gardner, J.N. (1979). University 101: A concept for human development. In Annual Conference Monograph of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, 23-25.
Gardner, J.N. (1978). How to make students more effective consumers of their education: University l0l at the University of South Carolina. Journal of Southern College Personnel Association, 1(1), 61-68.

Blog Posts 2009-2017

John N. Gardner’s Blog Posts from 2009-2017 are available to download here.

List of Blog Posts from 2009-2017

2009

Blog –First One

What Question(s) Would You Ask?

Homecoming: A vestigial organ, or an idea whose time has come?

Education for What?

The New Normal for “Night School”

Let’s take the “H” out of Housing: It’s all in a name!

An Alternative to “Housing” for the Higher Ed Lexicon

Students in Transition

Veteran’s Day Salute

Veterans Day Reflection: All I Ever Needed to Know about Orienting New Students to College I Learned in the Military

Why Does the First-Year Matter?

Power to the Peers!

How Long Has It Been Since You Were in a High School?

Can Your Thanksgivings Past Be Instructive for Your Students?

Ode to Thanksgivings Past: Part Two.

A Thanksgiving That Was Forever a Teachable Moment: My 9/11

Thankful for the Access We Once Had

Q: And what did you do over Thanksgiving vacation? A: What you did is who you are.

The Blog as First-Year Student Diary: Writing is for Life

The Times They Are A’Changing: our Friendly Regional Accreditors

I feel this coming: the four-year degree must go!

My Philosophy of Student Success.

Why We are In This Work.

‘Tis the Season: For Engaging Our Students in Taking Stock.

How is “change” affecting our students? Oh, in just a few ways!

2010

An Unplanned Opportunity for Community

Happy Valley is Not the Norm

Happy Anniversary to My Adult Self

The Great Recession’s Toll on Our Students

Check List for Starting a New Term

MLK Day: What Does This Evoke for You?

Just Say Anything

Relevance: The Week That Was

The New Normal: The Transfer Experience.

Blog: The Art of Complimenting

The Merits of Being Stranded

Receiving is as Important as Giving: As in Compliments!

Keeping A Stiff Upper Lip: How Truthful to Be with our Students?

What’s Your Big Idea?

Wintering into Wisdom

What Do Students Really Need?

Surely, They Have to Know

Campus as a Microcosm: We Must do Better

How Students are Meeting Hard Times

What My Father Wanted Me to do in College

Encourage Your Students to Make Their Wishes Known

Child of the 60’s

How Do We Help Students Understand the Significance of What Just Happened?

So Many Teachable Moments

Does the sophomore year matter?

If You Could Give Your Students One Book

Beyond Passover and Easter: It Can’t Be Long Now

What Would You Like Me to Blog About?

Do You Know How Lucky You Are?

A Winning Combination

Oh No, “The Sophomore Year Experience”

What Will Our Students Remember?

What Are You Learning? How Are You Reacting to It? And What Are You Going to Do with It? Teaching for Reflection

Forget the Official Commencement: Your “Farewell Address” Is the One That Will Matter

Last Chance: Urge your Students to Stay Connected this Summer

Some Good News on the Retention Front

Learn More about Improving the Transfer Experience for STEM Students.

The “Correction”: What Could That Mean In Our Higher Education Context?

An Outcome of College: What We Do on Vacation.

What Has Been the Impact of the Great Recession on the First-Year Improvement Initiative?

An Annual Glimpse Beyond My Cultural Blinders.

An Obvious Opportunity and Suggestion.

Reminding Myself About the Importance of Having a Personal Philosophy of Education.

Never Enough Opportunities to Teach Leadership.

I Am What I Studied.

The New American Comprehensive College.

Could We Develop a Curriculum to Teach This?

Baptism as Ritual: What’s the Analog in Higher Education?

How About an Independence Day for New Students?

Just How Far Would You Go to Help Students?

What Do You Want to Be Remembered For?

How Could We Be Preparing College Students Who Want to Work in the Academy but Not for the Academy?

What is it That We Do For Students That Matters?

A New Beginning.

The New Normal

Empathetic Recall

Succession Plan.

What criteria would you chose to select your successor? What elements of your work do you want to leave as a legacy for your successor to carry on.

Life Begins at 80.

A First: A Student Success Plan for First Year to Graduate School

Important New Collaborator on My/Our Work.

Optimism: How are we going to teach it this year?

College Made Me Vacation Like I Do!

Freedom: A Subject for More than Just a Common Read.

Small Colleges Can Be Inspiring.

Where are the Men? Not Dealing with the Male Problem!

Blog: Memories are Made of This!

I Have Seen the Future and the Future is Us.

Reflecting on the Tragedy at Rutgers: A Tragedy for All

The Most Inspiring Meeting I Attend All Year

The Movement is Spreading and Deepening.

What Would it Take?

15 Triggers for Discussion.

It’s All About Social Justice.

I Have Seen the Future and it is Here #

For Campuses Who Can’t Go Greek, How Can They Do Greek?

Character Building Experiences: Bring Back the Paper Person.

Here’s to the Enduring Influence of the Faculty!

Texting as Surrogate Touch.

A Truly Invisible New Student

Our Words Do Matter

What Do Our Students Do for Privacy?

2011

The Questions: They Are More Important Than the Answers.

How Might I/You Live Differently This Year?

Tucson’s Day of Infamy.

Announcing Additional Bloggers.

Thirtieth Anniversary Coming Up Soon: What’s Your Big Idea?

Remember: Our Impact Transcends our Own Country.

Let’s Hear It for South Africa.

Constantly Reassessing Individual Purpose.

What If?

Thirty Years and Going Strong.

Reporting From Down Under

Let’s Run the Campus Like the New Zealanders Run Their Customs.

Looking at the Campus Through the Lens of the Haves vs. the Have Nots.

Silence.

“Well, I have never thought about that before….”

Some Departing Thoughts upon Leaving Paradise.

My Luckiest Day.

Final Notes on Comparing Three Countries.

Readjusting to My Country: It’s Been an Adjustment

What Shall We Tell Them?

Just Look Around.

Learning to Be A Little Less American: Collaboration vs Competition.

Salute to Those Who Provide Tutoring.

Take a Student to Lunch (breakfast/supper) and See Who Learns the Most

What’s On Your Mind?

An Alternative to Cries from the Tea Party: Let’s Hear It for a Tax Increase.

Own Your Power

How College Affected This Student: Why I Make My Students Make The New York Times A Part of Their Daily Lives

Job # 1: Dispensing Wisdom.

The Tail Wagging the Dog.

At Last, We are Finally Asked to Sacrifice.

A Perspective I am Going to Keep Reminding Myself Of!

What Did I Accomplish Today?

Joining the Students for their “Journey”

“‘Til Death Do Us Part”

Commencements: What Would You Tell Graduating Students?

Musing Upon the Commencement of Annual Vacation.

How About Something Positive?

This Summer: What Are We Orienting Them For?

The International FYE Movement Continues.

In Some Important Ways I Have Not Left Home.

Acting Like A Full Professor with Tenure in Contexts Where You Are Not a Full Professor with Tenure Blog

We Have Failed This Generation.

Twelve Years Later: What Do I Miss?

College as Lab for Real Life.

What I Got for Firing All the Teachers.

How About A Curriculum for An Antidote to Societal Pursuit of Greed and Selfishness?.

How to Teach Big Picture Thinkers.

Dear Readers.

Retention is a Real Slog.

Why “dorm” and “housing” are terms that have long outlived their usefulness!

My “Dream Sheet” for Improving On-Campus Residential Living.

If Only the Campus/Country were a Symphony Orchestra.

We Produced These Leaders: Where Did We Fail?

Take Home to Campus Lesson from Debt Ceiling Debacle.

My Favorite Day of the Year

An Education Major for Anyone?

The Vacation Challenge to Technology Addiction.

Surely We Can Do Better

What Would YOU Do if Only You Had The Time and the Money?

Reunion Anyone?

Here’s A Goal for You: Make it ‘til your 50th.

Hedonism—or What’s the Alternative?

My 9/11 Was Not My Students’

Blog: What Do We All Believe In?.

What Would You Do If You Wanted to Understand Today’s Students?.

Let’s Get Them to Tell Their Stories for Posterity.

How Do You Talk to Students About Gender Differences?

On the Way to War with Teddy Bear and Memories of Mother

Inspired by Andy Rooney: What Do You See Your Role in Life to Be?

Moneyball? What Role Loyalty (versus money)?

What’s A One Liner Your Students Might Remember and Be Influenced By?

“What, Me Marry?”

Inequality Sinking In.

Fall: That Special Season for Beginnings and Endings.

Inspiration from Private Enterprise.

Veteran’s Day 2011.

Reflections from Italy.

Thanksgiving 2011.

Remembering the Power of Mentoring.

Rethinking the Value of Coaching and Athletics.

Critical Junctures: A Way of Thinking about Where We Need to Intervene to Support Students. 225

What Did I Learn and What Am I Going to Do with What I Learned?

Take a Look at Student Behavior: What Does it Tell You?

Looking for Signs of Hopefulness.

2012

Higher Education Innovators (Like Me) Are Made Not Born.

A Guiding Framework.

“Feeling Overwhelmed” as Subtext for “Things are in the saddle and ride mankind”

Thinking of Martin Luther King 2012

A Quaker Perspective About Says It All

What Would You Like Me to Blog About?

Social Justice Redux.

A Day with Student Affairs Leaders.

Happy Birthday FYE

Retrospective: Planning Your College Career as If You Knew the Competencies You Needed.

Reporting Live from the 31^st Annual Firs-Year Experience Conference.

Let’s Get Back to Basics: What is the Purpose of our Work?

Two recent perspectives for me on the purposes of getting students through follow below.

What is the Role of the President/Chancellor in Improving the First Year?

So Where Are the Men?

Let’s Hear It for Alma Mater

This Could Be Us—Or Is It?

One More Pressure Point on Retention.

Prejudice: The New But Not So New Underclass.

A Step to Mitigate the August Train Wreck.

We Weren’t Designed for These People: Discrimination against Transfer Students – Part One.

Transfer Discrimination: Part 3.

Transfer Discrimination, Part 2.

The End of the Term Calls for Some Silence

Reaching Out to High Schools and Our Future Students.

Academic Observations from Venice.

Remove One Given from Your Campus: What Difference Would It Make?

End of Term.

Here a College, There a College, Everywhere a College.

Difficult Choices.

American Higher Education’s Race to the Bottom.

Reflections in the Little League Baseball Park.

College Success: Misnomer?

80% of Success is Simply Showing Up—Or Is It?

The Commencement Speech as Reflection Tool

Joy Kills Sorrow.

An Upside of Higher Education’s Tolerance for Idiosyncrasy: Advocacy Flourishes.

The Grand Divide-What Can We Do To Come Over to the Other Side?

There Are Lessons from Penn State for All of Us: This Applies to You!

Penn State Redux: What Students Learn When They See Us Not Doing the Right Thing.

Give It to Me in One Simple Reply.

Let’s Hear It for the Completion Agenda.

What Have You Accomplished?

As Others See Us.

What Do Our Leaders Really Believe In?

What Would Your College/University Have to Do…to Have This Effect?

Four Sure Fire Ways to Kill a Conversation about Innovation and Change.

What Will They Amount To?

Reflections of a Departing Vacationer

“I Shall Not Tell A Lie”

Oh, If Only We Didn’t Have to Change!

Quiet Please: Student Thinking Space.

Mystery Shopping: What does it Cost?

Transfer Student Experience Déjà Vu.

Higher Educators Going Back to Class.

The American People Want a President Not a Professor

The Perfect Experiential Exercise for Linking Inside and Outside the Classroom Learning.

Students in Transition: What’s New? What’s Old?

Students in Transition: What’s New? What’s Old?.

Moving from “Access” to “Success”: Just What Exactly Does That Mean?

Policies Make a Difference in Student Success.

Watch this Place: Governors State University.

The Campus as Shelter

Exhibit A for How to Sustain an Innovation: Forty Years Old and Going Stronger Than Ever

Thanksgiving 2012.

Partnerships: More of what is Needed on Campus and in Washington.

‘Tis the Season.

What’s to Be Learned?

Addressing Retention: Only with a Slog!

Year End Reflections for 2012.

2013

Thinking about the Year Ahead.

Zero Dark Thirty: Reflections on Persistence.

Risk Management for Students and Their Educators Too.

It Was a Very Different Time.

“Mobilize.” What Might That Mean for Your Work—My Work?

Still Remembering Dr. King.

A Good Way to Get “Up”: Go to a Talent Show.

What Does It Mean to Be an “Ideologue”?

We Are Committed to Equity.

How Would I Find A Mentor?

Everybody Gets It: The Completion Agenda.

Teaching Used to Make Me Sick.

Academic Probation: Getting On is Much Easier Than Getting Off!

Checking in With Students.

Travels with John.

Who Are We Doing this For?

Nobody Wants to Talk to Me Anymore!

Students Give Me Hope and Inspiration.

What Were My Observations This Time?

How Do We End the Term—for Ourselves? A Closure Checklist

Got A Plan for New Student Success?

Confessions of a Repentant Blogger

Leave the Place a Little Bit Better…

Seeing the Forest for the Trees.

Avoiding the Faculty is Not the Way to Go.

“Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me 35 Years Ago”

How Would You Feel?

Do We Want Them to Be Like Us?

This is the Best Time of Year

Seeing with Different Eyes This Year

I Had Never Heard Anything Like This.

What Can I Do? What Can YOU Do?

What Kind of Help Do You Need?

Your Friends, They Come and They Go …

The Need to Be Reminded of What You Already Know..

If Ever There Was A Teachable Moment!

The Tipping Point in the Beginning College Experience: For Some, It is Soon Too Late for a Second Chance

What’s in a Handshake? A Start.

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

Elephant’s Graveyard.

Let’s Try Going Wire[LESS]!

These are The Times That Try Men’s (and Women’s) Souls.

Like Some of our Students: Looking for the Meaning of Faith.

How Do I Learn What I Need to Know?

I am Right About…

Where Were You Daddy…?

Acknowledging One’s Mentor While You Both Still Have Time.

When and Why Should We Urge our Students to Get Engaged with “Service”?

Why Can’t We Do the Cool Stuff?

Focusing on the Metrics of Retention: Higher Education with No Soul

“Find A Good Company and Stick with It”: What Advice Do We Give Our Students These Days?

2014

Looking Ahead to 2014.

One Person/One Policy Makes a Difference.

Talk about Partnerships and One Person Making a Difference.

Seven Principles of Good Practice for Student Success Partnerships.

The College Pipeline is Visible Long Before…

33 But Who’s Counting? I Am!

What’s Not to Like?

It’s All in the Shirt

The Intentional Tourist

What is Your Goal?

Using Vacation for Reflection on the Mundane and some Eternal Verities.

You Just Never Know What Students Will Remember…and Act On.

My Worst Fears.

It’s That Time of Year

“Back at You”

How Would You Handle This Student Success Challenge?

What Can Be Done Over the Summer to Improve Next Year’s Retention Rate?

Inspirations in a Concert

Salute to a Special Colleague in Transition: Is She or Isn’t She Retiring?

Reducing Failure Rates in Gateway Courses: All Aspirational Goals for Improving Student Success Depend on This!

Why Don’t We Make Gateway Course Student Performance A Higher Priority: Restated as Why Are We So Tolerant of Such High Failure Rates?

Fall Ahead 2014.

In Memorium: John J. Duffy.

What are Your Roadmaps?

A Preview of Coming Attractions.

Something to Aspire To.

The Power of Just One Educator

My October 1 Anniversary.

A New Profession?

Silos: A Must for Farmers, a Negative for Campuses.

What’s in a Ceremony?

Moving to Scale

Fall: A Good Season for Benchmarking and Transforming

Finding the Money.

Veterans’ Day 2014: What Brings Us All Together?.

Irrational Love…Or is It Rational?.

It’s All about Meaningful Work.

Two Great Universities Reputations Badly Tarnished: Is There A Common Theme?.

Year End 2014: Looking Back Looking Ahead.

ADDENDUM: “Year End 2014: Looking Back Looking Ahead.

2015

The Unfinished Movement for Social Justice.

It’s High Time I Wrote!

Write Our Own Future.

New Frontier for the First-Year Seminar

Learning from the Mistakes of Our Rulers.

Ode to a Retiring Colleague.

Way Down South in Dixie.

Do It: Mystery Shop Your Own Institution.

The Gardner Institute Turns Sweet 16.

The Life and Times of Nelson Mandela: Who Are YOUR S/Heroes?.

The New Normal for “Night School”

2017

Fifty Years Anniversary Posting—But Who’s Counting? I Am!

Why Chief Academic Officers Matter (and Now More Than Ever)

Good Things Will Come from Campus Unrest: They Have Before.

Returning the Gift: Never Know What a Student Can Do Unless You

Coming… a World Boycott?

Tenure: Look to Those Who Have It

The Transfer Experience vs The First-Year Experience: How Do They Measure Up? Here’s a Simple Toolkit to Answer This Question.

The Beginning College Experience: What Could An Engaged Board Be Doing About This?

The Big Disconnects.

What Do You Give Your Students to Read—to Get Them to Discover What Matters Most?

What We Tell our Students May Matter More Than We or They Realize at the Time…

What a Difference the First Year of College Can Make.

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