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As You Like It: Building, Executing, and Assessing an Adaptable Library Instruction Program for First-Year Experience Courses

open access: yesCommunications in Information Literacy, 2022
Providing targeted experiences for first-year students both inside and outside the classroom is essential for building connections and creating a foundation for skill development necessary for academic success.
Joy I. Hansen
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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA): Maximizing Impacts in Medical Education and Health Care

open access: yesMedEdPORTAL, 2022
Introduction Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) provides a path for individuals who are undocumented to join the physician workforce. Indeed, recipients of DACA can play an important role in addressing health inequities in medicine.
Aaron Garcia   +6 more
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Understanding the Role of FYE Resource Centres

open access: yesJournal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2018
Lebo Mosebua from the South African National Resource Centre for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition (SANRC) conducted an interview with Dr Tracy Skipper from the SANRC’s U.S.-based partner organisation, the National Resource Center for ...
Annsilla Nyar, Lebo Mosebua
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The First-Year Experience (FYE): Moving Toward a Well-Defined Field of Study in South Africa

open access: yesJournal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2018
For too long, South Africa has watched from afar as global FYE scholarship continues to establish and consolidate itself. Now, with the recent array of initiatives to establish the FYE academically in South Africa, including the establishment of the ...
Annsilla Nyar
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SANRC FYE Conference 2018: An Important Space for South Africa’s FYE Community is Now Taking Shape

open access: yesJournal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2018
The SANRC’s annual First-Year Experience Conference is rapidly becoming established as a focal point on South Africa’s higher education calendar. The 2018 conference was held at the Garden Court Marine Parade in Durban on 23–25 May 2018.
Annsilla Nyar
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Understanding the UJ Institutional Student Success Initiative (ISSI)

open access: yesJournal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2018
Celine Meyers from the South African National Resource Centre for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition (SANRC) recently spent time with Dr André van Zyl, Director of the Academic Development Centre at the University of Johannesburg (UJ ...
Annsilla Nyar, Celine Meyers
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Motivation for Choosing Nursing as a Profession

open access: yesПедагогически форум, 2020
The fast development of the diagnostic, therapeutic and pharmaceutical medical technologies is a prerequisite for availability of highly educated medical specialists.
Yordanka Yordanova, Marinela Grudeva
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Predictable Information Literacy Misconceptions of First-Year College Students

open access: yesCommunications in Information Literacy, 2018
The process of learning includes not only success in developing knowledge, skills, and abilities but also mistakes and errors that impede such success. In any domain of learning, instructors will have developed a sense of the typical errors learners make;
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe   +2 more
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Academic Expectations, Gender and Working Status: Comparing Two Cohorts of University Students [PDF]

open access: yesPsicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 2023
The expansion of higher education is associated with the progressive diversification of student’s profiles, such as the increasing number of older, working and female students. The transition to higher education poses challenges for students entering it,
Denise de Souza Fleith   +4 more
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The Academic Persistence of First-Year First-Generation African Students (FYFGAS): A Framework for Higher Education in South Africa

open access: yesJournal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2021
Since the dawn of democracy, South African universities have seen increased access to higher education from African students, the majority being first-generation students (FGS).
Soraya Motsabi   +2 more
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