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OpenStax and its content contributors.
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Art Attribution in College Success
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About College Success
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College Success is designed to meet the course needs of a one-semester course, workshop, or seminar for first
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year experience or college transition students. FYE programs vary greatly according to institution, so the
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textbook has been developed to cover the most common concepts, and the open license and flexible formats
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provide many opportunities for coordinators, instructional designers, and faculty to tailor the material for their
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Preface
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This book is an invitation—an invitation to students to step boldly into their college experience. College
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Success addresses the evolving challenges and opportunities of today’s diverse students. The intensive
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development work leveraged expertise from hundreds of FYE coordinators and faculty across the country. It
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highlights resources available to students as they embark on new roads of independence and responsibility.
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Students engage in careful self-analysis and research-based strategies to identify their strengths, challenges,
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and aptitudes. While they explore study skills and learning methods, they are continually asked to apply the
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concepts in reading, writing, and thinking exercises, which build both a solid base for classroom discussion
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and a portfolio they can augment throughout their college career. Recognizing the ubiquity of technology and
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social media, the authors address relevant information and advice where appropriate throughout the text. The
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material is rooted in motivation, growth-mindset, and resilience; student readers will feel seen and involved as
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they continually encounter one of the textbook’s core themes: “real-life” doesn’t stop when college starts.
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Student engagement and self-analysis are reflected in each section through applications and activities.
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Student reflection and opinions can be captured directly in the text, online, or in worksheets provided through
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the ancillary package.
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The diversity and intersectionality of students was considered in every example, context, and application,
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and the text’s active surveys and detailed profiles make student voices a key element of the reading.
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Interconnected topics are acknowledged and built upon, demonstrating that no element of college learning
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and growth occurs in isolation. The result is a cumulative, more complete understanding, which better
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prepares students to meet the multi-dimensional challenges of higher education.
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Openly licensed and free in all digital formats, the text provides unparalleled flexibility in its use,
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customization, and accessibility for faculty and students. The book is provided at no cost in online, pdf, epub,
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Kindle, and other formats. It is also available in print for a very low price.
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Robust instructor ancillaries will support faculty and course designers with teaching notes, additional
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exercises, worksheet versions of the in-text activities, lecture slides, and assessment items.
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Features
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• Student Profiles: The voices of real students inform every chapter. These students grapple with the same
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concepts, from improving study skills to embracing diversity, and through their experiences and successes
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we share important stories.
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• Get Connected: Apps, websites and tech opportunities that our experts recommend to help students
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better face the challenges of college and life beyond the classroom.
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• Analysis and Applications: Peppered through every chapter are opportunities for students to reflect on
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concepts, try out processes, and apply what they’re learning.
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• Career Connection: How can the material in each chapter help the student once they leave the
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classroom? Features at the end of every chapter help students apply what they’ve learned to work life.
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• Where Do You Go From Here?: Each chapter gives students the opportunity to dig in deeper and hone
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their research skills by choosing one topic for a closer look.
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Student Surveys and Results
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Chapters begin and end with a survey, posing questions that will get readers engaged in considering their own
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level of connection and understanding of the chapter’s concept, from time management to personal finance to
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career planning. The close of each chapter revisits the survey, helping students gauge how their
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understanding has evolved.
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Student survey results are gathered anonymously and will be regularly provided to adopters as part of the
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instructor resources. (See below for more information on instructor resources.) In the future, the surveys will
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be assignable and the results viewable on an individual-course basis. For the survey results featured in the
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textbook, hundreds of students from a diverse array of colleges and universities provided their feedback to
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Preface
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inform future students taking the course.
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Estimated Module Completion Time
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Each section of College Success includes an estimate of the average time needed to read through the material,
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work on the activities and applications, and—where necessary—explore external websites or watch videos.
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Each student will engage the material differently, and faculty will likely prioritize or assign certain components
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over others. As a result, the actual time students spend will vary greatly. OpenStax will periodically update
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these estimates based on user feedback. As with all other elements of the text, these estimates may be
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