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3rd Annual Foundations of Excellence® Winter Meeting

February 15, 2008 • San Francisco, CA

Session PowerPoints & Handouts Now Available

The third annual Foundations of Excellence® Winter Meeting took place on February 15, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. Past and current FoE participants were invited to attend this gathering and about 150 people were in attendance. 

Click here to download the 2008 FoE Winter Meeting Program Book

Click the titles below to download PDF versions of these handouts.

Session #1: Using FoE and Accreditation to Improve the First-Year Experience: A Third Year Perspective (PowerPoint)
Summary of FoE Core Recommendations (Handout)
Missouri Southern State University

Session #2: Leveraging for Change: FoE and the Accreditation Process (IUPUI; Gallaudet University; University of Texas, El Paso; Slippery Rock University)

Session #3: What Comes Next -- The Story of One Founding Institution Aurora University

Session #4The Benefit of the FOE Process for a Hispanic Serving Multi-Campus Community College El Paso Community College

Session #5Using Foundations of Excellence to Consolidate Learning Outcomes for the First Year Fayetteville State University

Session #6: How to Get Buy-in from Faculty and Staff: Conducting a New Student Simulation (Handout) Gainesville State College

Session #7: Foundations of Excellence at a Public AAU university Stony Brook University

Session #8: What’s Next? McHenry County College

Session #9: Bringing Together Student Development and Academic Affairs for Student Success Rock Valley College

Session #11: Service Learning – Moving from Planning to Action in the First Year (PowerPoint) Sample UVC 103 Syllabus (Handout) Switching to Fluorescent Lamps (Handout) Wright State University

Session #12: Using the First-Year Implementation Plan as an AQIP project (PowerPoint)
Implementation Phase of the First Year Project (Handout) Sheridan College

Session #14: Creating a Culture of Success through Integration of Academic and Student Affairs Units IUPU Ft Wayne

Session #15: Applying Foundations of Excellence Process to First-Semester Transfer Students SUNY Brockport

Session #16: The Diversity Dimension and Diverse Students: Lessons from a Tribal College Tohono O’odham Community College

Session #17: MAP-Works: An Early-Warning Indicator of First-Year Student Success
Educational Benchmarking, Inc.

Session #18: Changing the Institutional Culture for First-Year Students Old Dominion University

Session #19: 78 FYE Action Items: Are you Kidding? (PowerPoint)
Strategic Plan for First College Year (Handout) Western Illinois University

Session #21: Managing a Maelstrom: How to Handle Foundations of Excellence, AQIP, a Title III Grant, and Still Remember that the First Year Matters! Owens Community College

Session #22: 2, 4, 6, 8! Just How Do We Mo-ti-vate? Frank Phillips College

The First Year Matters!

If you have  questions please contact Julie Alexander - Hamilton at alexander@fyfoundations.org or 828-877-6009.
 
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