Leaders of Four-Year Colleges Offer Views on Enrolling Transfer Students Source: College Board A College Board report includes the perspectives of 21 higher-education leaders at 12 four-year institutions across the United States. Students Using Social Networks to Ease Transition to College Source: The Courier-Journal Here is how some freshmen are increasingly turning to social media sites to locate resources and advice for the transition to campus. Introducing First-Generation Students to College Source: The Register-Guard This article reviews the success of the University of Oregon's Oregon Young Scholars Program, a weeklong residential program in which "historically underrepresented" high-school-age students from a targeted group of schools learn college study skills, live for a week in the dorms, and develop peer cohorts. New Cornell College president looks to grow enrollment, endowment Source: The Gazette New Cornell College President Jonathan Brand was a college president in Nebraska last year when a small college in that state closed its doors for financial reasons. So Brand, 45, is acutely aware of how hard the economic downturn has been on some smaller private colleges. U. of Alaska Researcher Presses More-Inclusive Approach to Measuring Student Achievement Source: The Chronicle A model of the new tracking system follows all entering students for 10 years, monitoring far more than just whether and when they graduate.
