Peer Review, Summer, 2006
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Successful Transitions to College Through First- Year Programs

This issue features first-year programs that are designed to facilitate positive transitions for students into higher education and foster more intentional learning through intensive seminars and faculty contact, mentoring programs, and cocurricular activities.

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From the Editor

By Shelley Johnson Carey

Analysis

Fostering Student Learning and Success through First-Year Programs

By Mary Stuart Hunter

Creating Common Ground: Common Reading and the First Year of College

By Michael Ferguson

Practice

Evaluating Quality of Engagement in Hampshire College's First-Year Plan

By Steven Weisler and Carol Trosset

From "My Course" to "Our Program": Collective Responsibility for First-Year Student Success

By Scott Evenbeck and Sharon Hamilton

Research

First-Year Seminars Increase Persistence and Retention: A Summary of the Evidence from How College Affects Students

By Kathleen Goodman and Ernest T. Pascarella

Reality Check

First-Year Reflections

By Carol Sun

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