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Below you will find resources to guide you in supporting the first-year student experience through ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s lens of Learn, Connect, and Thrive.

Learn

Faculty and Staff who are interested in learning more about the First-Year Experience are invited to explore these resources:

• CORE Curriculum: First Year Foundations
• ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Common Reading
• Resources for Advising – Koenigsberger Learning Center
• First-Year Community Development Pathway – Residence Life
• – National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition | University of South Carolina
• (Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University)

Connect

• Connect with the 
  • Consider joining the committee’s work and supporting the core initiatives.
• Engage in the residential campus by teaching residentially linked courses, advising living-learning communities, mentoring students through a live-in faculty role, and/or serving on a neighborhood association.
• Teach and advise students through ELON 1010: The First-Year Advising Seminar.
• Campus partners and units that can support your growth as a teacher-scholar-mentor in the context of the first-year experience:
  • Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
  • Center for Writing Excellence
  • Teaching and Learning Technologies
  • Office of Inclusive Excellence Education and Development
  • Disabilities Resources
  • Undergraduate Research

Thrive

• Recommend reviewing Kognito At-Risk: Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Training modules
• Counseling Center
• Student Care and Outreach
• HealthEU
• Koenigsberger Learning Center
• Wellness Connections – Student Involvement
• (naspa.org)