First-Year Students
GVSU Resources
- Tips for Teaching First Year Students at GVSU - a document prepared as part of the Strong Start Initiative
- My Laker Success - a website that was developed as part of the Student Success Network that helps students navigate their first year in college – encourage your students to bookmark this page
General Resources
- Teaching First-Year Students, a guide prepared by the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University
- Best Practices for Teaching First-Year Undergraduates, a PDF guidebook of best practices compiled by faculty at Carnegie Mellon University
- Suggestions for teaching first-year students, University of Wisconsin Madison
- How College Works: A thought-provoking book that identifies important aspects of the college experience vital to student success.
- The book is available as an eBook through University Libraries
- A brief interview with author Daniel F. Chambliss
- A series of videos that summarizes some of the findings from the book
- 33 Simple Strategies for Faculty: A Week-by-Week Resource for Teaching First-Year and First-Generation Students, Lisa Nunn
- The book is available as an eBook through University Libraries
- Publishers website