Educators,
Thank you for
your interest.
Please
allow me to introduce a new seminar designed to help college-bound
seniors succeed during their upcoming, pivotal freshman year. This
seminar is based on insight and advice from current college students who
speak directly to high school seniors via static and video segments. The
seminar is non-institution specific and applicable to any student going
away to any college.
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Participants in this one or two-hour seminar will learn basic academic
protocols, problem-solving techniques, study tips, and
social scene strategies for first year college students.
Topics include:
- Choosing Classes
- Note Taking Tips
- Test Strategies Social
- Scene Changes
- Credit Card Lies
- Roommate Woes
- Safety on Campus
- Talking with Professors
- And more.
Research Proposal Abstract
– January 2007 Briefing
Youth can achieve greater success and reduce negative life
consequences during their first year of college if they 1)
increase knowledge of new social scene and academic protocols,
and 2) work through a conjectural decision-making process prior
to actual encounters. This project will create a self-sustaining
program that can be used nationwide.
READ the
original research abstract>>>
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Program
Highlights
October 2007 -
1st Place - In blind peer reviews, the Journal of
Youth Development's academic and professional organization has chosen
College 101 as the best program package in the nation.
This organization consists of over 3,600
members located in colleges and universities across the country.
In addition, the project has garnered other attention nationally. We have had
invited papers, workshops, and awards at several academic
conferences. A report on latest research findings from
the Ohio State University study is underway.
READ MORE>>>
About the
author
Brian Raison began working for the Ohio State University in 1996 in
the Department of Extension. He presently holds appointments in
youth and community development, and is active in developing and
conducting programming for teens. His pre-academic career includes 6
years in communications at the Mead Paper Corporation.
For the past dozen years, he has led volunteer outreach efforts in
Haiti and throughout the U.S. at weeklong housing rehabilitation
projects for
Reach Workcamps and
Group Publishing’s Workcamp division. Most recently, he helped establish a new 501(c)3 technology
education literacy center in rural Guatemala,
http://www.mayatechlc.org.
He holds a BS from Ohio State University’s College of Business and
the MA in Sociology from Ohio University, Athens.
He is continuing work on an expanded research project regarding
student transitions to college and on teen online social networking
trends. For additional information on those projects, you may reach
him at his office at Ohio State:
raison.1@osu.edu.
Terms of Use
College 101:
Strategies for 1st Year Success is a copyrighted, for-sale product. We
have invested substantial resources to create this curriculum. It may be
used for intended, end-use purposes only. No copyrighted material or
other content may be copied, distributed, downloaded, modified,
reproduced, published, or otherwise used in any way whatsoever without
express written consent of the author.
Several colleges and universities are presently using portions of this program in the development of their own unique,
university-flavored college prep program (including orientation, welcome
week, and first year experience classes). Any university or
organization that wishes to do so must obtain a site license. Any
organization wishing to develop an end-user product (book, CD, video/DVD,
seminar, etc.) as a for-sale program must obtain an expanded-use
site-license to use any copyrighted material.
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