2008 First-Year Conference

The 2008 First-Year Conference was held on October 31st, 2008 at the Pyle Center on the UW-Madison campus.  With over 184 registrants, this was the largest attended conference in our four-year history.
We welcomed Dr. Betsy Barefoot, Co-Director and Senior Scholar of the Policy Center on the First Year of College.  For those interested in reading her keynote PowerPoint, click here.

If you are interesting in being a part of the planning for the 2009 conference, please contact Adrianna Guram, Coordinator of First-Year Programs in the Center for the First-Year Experience: aguram@odos.wisc.edu.

Please visit the links below for materials provided at sessions during the conference:

Presentations (Power Point):

Student Development in the First College Year

In Partnership with Students

Handouts:

• Self-Authorship: The Foundation for Twenty-First-Century Education
• Interview Strategies for Assessing Self-Authorship: Constructing Conversations to Assess Meaning Making
  
• Toward Reflective Conversations: An Advising Approach that Promotes Self-Authorship

Book :


• Learning Partnerships: Theory and models of practice to educate for self-authorship