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Transition Culture Shock

Transition Culture Shock. Students’ Academic Adjustment to Drake. Chrystal Stanley, PhD. Transitioning to the Next Environment. Cultural Awareness Language Expectations Values. Language. Higher Education Provost/Dean Degree Audit Academic Progress Drake Halls

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Transition Culture Shock

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  1. Transition Culture Shock Students’ Academic Adjustment to Drake Chrystal Stanley, PhD

  2. Transitioning to the Next Environment • Cultural Awareness • Language • Expectations • Values

  3. Language • Higher Education • Provost/Dean • Degree Audit • Academic Progress • Drake • Halls • Engaged Citizen (service learning/internship) • Alphabet Soup • AOI, PCDS, CAPS, FYS, etc.

  4. Expectations

  5. High School Teachers, support staff, and parents advocate for student needs. Values effort on the part of the student. Drake University Students are expected to advocate for themselves. Values action, independence, and results on the part of the student. Values Differences

  6. Understanding the Next Environment

  7. The Freshman Myth • Overly optimistic and confident in their ability to manage the challenges they will encounter at college • SKNSB Syndrome • Success in high school will translate into college

  8. The Freshman Myth An estimated 18 million students enrolled in college in 2010; nearly 34% dropped out in the first year because they were over confident, under-prepared and lacked realistic expectations about college. From: U.S. Census and American College Testing Program

  9. Preparation is Key to Success How YOU as an FYS professor can help!

  10. Understand Learning Styles • Visual • Auditory (Verbal) • Kinesthetic (Active) • Reflective • Sensing (facts) • Intuitive (possibilities & relationships) • Global (big picture) • Sequential (linear) Pashler, H., et. al. (2009). Learning styles: Concepts and evidence. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 9 (3), 105-119. - See more at: http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/learning-styles/whats-story-learning-styles/#sthash.LSJGRKhU.dpuf

  11. Advice to Students • Take control of your own education: think of yourself as a scholar. • Get to know your professors; they are your single greatest resource. • Be assertive. Create your own support systems, and seek help when you realize you may need it. • Take control of your time. Plan ahead to satisfy academic obligations and make room for everything else. • Stretch yourself: enroll in at least one course that really challenges you. • Make thoughtful decisions: don't take a course just to satisfy a requirement, and don't drop any course too quickly. • Think beyond the moment: set goals for the semester, the year, your college career.

  12. Invite Academic Achievement Staff to Class • Chrystal Stanley – Academic Achievement & Career Exploration • Bryan Thomas, Jr. – Success Programs • Michelle Laughlin – Disability Services

  13. Questions and Comments ? ? ? ? ?

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