NRConnect Fall 2024
Coming soon at the National Resource Center
There is so much happening at the NRC this year, and we hope you will engage with our events and resources. Here are three things you can do this fall to build your knowledge and participate in the conversation on students’ first-year and transition experiences!
Attend (virtually) the 31st National Conference on Students in Transition October 2-4, 2024
The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition will host the 31st National Conference on Students in Transition October 2-4, 2024. At this virtual conference, attendees have the opportunity to learn about the latest trends, initiatives, best practices, ideas, research, and assessment strategies for supporting student success in the first college year and beyond. Workshop topics will include transitional programming, family involvement, career education, wrap around services, adult learners, institutional partnerships, sophomore experience, social capital, mental health literacy, and much more! Dr. Bernie Savarese, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Research and Student Success for the University of Tennessee System will deliver the keynote address. Dr. Silvia Patricia Rios Husain, Associate Vice President for Student Success at the University of South Carolina will give the plenary address. Register today!
Read Rethinking Student Transitions: How Community, Participation, and Becoming Can Help Higher Education Deliver on its Promise, the NRC’s top-selling publication this year!
Rethinking Student Transitions: How Community, Participation, and Becoming Can Help Higher Education Deliver on its Promise by NRC Affiliate Scholars Drs. Dallin George Young and Bryce Bunting presents a reimagined theory of student transitions in college. The authors contend that while previous theorizations have helped move the practice of supporting student success forward through the latter half of the twentieth century, earlier conceptualizations and models have led to an inconsistent and incomplete picture of students’ experiences in transition. The book offers both a review and critique of current models of transition and then develops a new conceptual viewpoint based in the ideas of situated learning and transitions as becoming. The second half of the book is dedicated to using this new theoretical perspective to illustrate how higher education professionals can create conditions to support students in transition more intentionally, with a particular view toward supporting historically marginalized students, including racially and ethnically minoritized students, first-generation students, and post-traditional students.
Higher Education leaders are raving about the book and the impact it is having on practice and policies:
“Drs. Young and Bunting boldly rethink transitions as ‘becoming’ and situated learning. Postsecondary educators, professionals, and researchers will find this book an important redirection of theory and practice on college transition that enables us to take steps we must take in order to ensure that each student we matriculate to our institutions can learn, thrive, and graduate.” -Kristen A. Renn, Mildred B. Erickson Distinguished Professor of Higher, Adult, & Lifelong Education, Michigan State University
Submit a proposal AND Register to attend the 44th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience February 16-19, 2025, in New Orleans, LA
Proposal submission and registration is open for the 44th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience February 16-19, 2025, in New Orleans! Register early to save on registration fees! Please also consider submitting a presentation proposal by September 17. Concurrent sessions, facilitated dialogues, and vendor presentation proposals are invited on topics addressing the First-Year Experience within and across higher education sectors.