Faculty for Freshmen

The Faculty for Freshmen Team (FFF) is a group of administrators and faculty that are dedicated to helping ease the transition into the academic and social rigors of college that every freshmen must go through by helping to better prepare faculty to support this unique transition in the student’s life.

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How College Works

Constrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve the quality of education? And can students get more out of college without paying higher tuition? Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs conclude that limited resources need not diminish the undergraduate experience. How College Works reveals the decisive role that personal relationships play in determining a student’s success, and puts forward a set of small, inexpensive interventions that yield substantial improvements in educational outcomes.

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College (Un)Bound

What is the value of a college degree?

The four-year college experience is as American as apple pie. So is the belief that education offers a ticket to a better life. But with student-loan debt surpassing the $1 trillion mark and unemployment on the rise, people are beginning to question that value. Is a college diploma still worth pursuing at any price?

Generation on a Tightrope

An understanding of today’s undergraduate college students is vital to the effectiveness of our nation’s colleges and universities. As Generation on a Tightrope clearly reveals, today’s students need a very different education than the undergraduates who came before them: an education for the 21st Century, which colleges and universities are so far ill-equipped to offer and which will require major changes of them to provide.