Your College Experience

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Where you belong. Supported by current research, John Gardner’s and Betsy Barefoot’s Your College Experience, Fourteenth Edition, will help you make the most out of your first year in college. Packed with countless tips to help you succeed in college and beyond, the text focuses on academic and personal strategies that are critical to college success, such as goal-setting, time-management, and physical and emotional well-being. This text also demonstrates how the skills you’re building right now will apply to your life beyond college, and provides guidance and tools you can use to explore career options.
Inclusive learning for social belonging. 
Your College Experience  provides a comprehensive, trusted framework for making the crucial first year of college impactful, inclusive, and positive for all students. For this groundbreaking new edition, the book’s long-acclaimed authors partnered with Macmillan Learning’s DICR Editorial Board to make diversity, inclusion, and social belonging the driving forces behind every word, photo, and example. Combined with new coverage on mental health, resilience, and mindset, Your College Experience speaks to the real needs of today’s students, helping them overcome their barriers to success and become successful students in academic communities they can call their own.

• Integrated fully with LaunchPad, Macmillan’s customizable online course space, which includes the full e-book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, auto-scored chapter quizzes, and a vivid suite of film clips with study questions.
• The latest research on the First-Year Experience. Your College Experience represents not only the practical experience of the authors'; extensive careers teaching and directing this course, but also the culmination of decades of research, disseminated through two national higher education centers which they have founded and directed. 
• Citations throughout this edition have been updated to reflect the very latest research on the first-year experience. 
• Continued emphasis on the top ten High-Impact Practices. Developed by the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the ten High-Impact Educational Practices are beneficial for college students from a variety of backgrounds. Approaches such as collaboration, writing-intensive courses, undergraduate research, service learning and internships are included, among others. Beginning in the first chapter, these practices are presented and are then integrated throughout the text. 
• Incorporated pedagogical features help students think critically and practice.
• Your Turn collaborative learning activities help strengthen connections between students and their college communities.
• Tech Tips in each chapter highlight the link between technology and learning.
• Use Your Resources boxes help students take control of their own success by connecting them to their campus faculty, as well as other students

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• Now with LaunchPad: Built around the most common issues faced in the classroom, LaunchPad for Your College Experience, Fourteenth Edition, gives students everything they need to prepare for class and exams, including digital tools linked directly to the eBook, like our acclaimed LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. For instructors, LaunchPad offers everything they need to quickly set up a course, customize the content, prepare presentations and lectures, assign and assess homework, and guide the progress of individual students and the class as a whole.
• Better, more inclusive learning experience. The new edition puts diversity, inclusion, and social belonging at the core of its pedagogy. With the guidance of Macmillan Learning’s Editorial Board for Diversity, Inclusion, and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (DICR Board), the photos, text examples, and content coverage throughout the book have been extensively revised ensuring that the perspectives in each chapter truly reflect the diversity of students in today's classrooms.
• Updated Chapter 13: Diversity and Inclusion contains new, updated, and expanded coverage of key topics like bias, gender identity, and abelism, as well as broader inclusion topics and strategies for maintaining an inclusive campus culture.
• Enhanced coverage of mental health and wellness. The new edition has been revised with a new contributor, Warrenetta Mann, Director of Counseling & Psychiatric Services at the University of South Carolina, to address one of the key barriers to student success--mental health.
• Updated Chapter 14: Wellness now discusses self-care, loneliness, body positivity and more. A new Wellness Toolkit includes a directory of adaptive coping and self-care strategies, including managing anxiety and depression, getting enough sleep, navigating loneliness, homesickness, social media, and eating well and exercising.
• Two new tech tips offer best practices for using social media and getting enough sleep.
• Reorganized Chapter 12: Relationships covers the importance of building and maintaining relationships with instructors, family, roommates, peers, and romantic partners. This chapter features new coverage on Homesickness and updated coverage of connecting with others online.

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