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The Buckeye Book Community as a Common Intellectual Experience

The Buckeye Book Community as a Common Intellectual Experience. Jenna DiCicco, First Year Experience. First Year Experience. Goals of the BBC To promote reflection and dialogue among first-year students and faculty/staff around a common academic activity

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The Buckeye Book Community as a Common Intellectual Experience

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  1. The Buckeye Book Community as a Common Intellectual Experience Jenna DiCicco, First Year Experience

  2. First Year Experience • Goals of the BBC • To promote reflection and dialogue among first-year students and faculty/staff around a common academic activity • To introduce students to academic expectations of higher education • To develop conversation skills as students discuss and understand complex societal issues • To help foster community among our first-year students • To connect first-year students to faculty and staff through co-curricular programming • To create a platform for discussion of transitional issues common for first-year students • To provide students with the opportunity to hear from the author and engage with the author through Q&A

  3. First Year Experience • “Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education” • (Chickering & Gamson, 1987) • Student-faculty contact • Cooperation among students • Active learning • Prompt feedback • Time on task • High expectations • Respect for diverse talents and ways of learning

  4. First Year Experience • “Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education” • (Chickering & Gamson, 1987) • Student-faculty contact • Cooperation among students • Active learning • Prompt feedback • Time on task • High expectations • Respect for diverse talents and ways of learning

  5. First Year Experience • BBC Overview • Book selection process • Book implementation • Author visit • First Year Success Series • Survey course • Residence Life programs

  6. First Year Experience • BBC Overview • History • Past book selections • The Submission, Amy Waldman • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot • Outcasts United, Warren St. John

  7. First Year Experience • BBC 2014 • The Glass Castleby Jeannette Walls

  8. First Year Experience • How can you get involved with the BBC?

  9. First Year Experience • Faculty Involvement • Faculty Lecture Series • Book discussions • Committees • Selection • Campus Events • Use book in your classes

  10. Other Involvement with FYE • Focusing on the First Year Conference • Nominations for Orientation speakers • Buckeyes Beyond Ohio • Pre-enrollment programs

  11. First Year Experience • Jenna DiCicco, Program CoordinatorEnrollment Services | Orientation & First Year Experience340 Student Academic Services Building614-247-6285 dicicco.5@osu.edufye.osu.edu

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