Betsy Barefoot

Helping students succeed in their college experienceWith a clear presentation of the practical information you need to succeed in your first year of college and beyond, Your College Success provides an in-depth treatment of those topics important for all college students, including motivation, time and money management, mental health and more.

This streamlined edition presents a straightforward, realistic, and intelligent review of the skills students need to succeed in college. The text focuses on the academic skills taught in college success courses while additional coverage of emotional intelligence, learning styles, diversity, and money help students get off to a great start. While maintaining its hallmark theme of goal setting, the new edition provides practical strategies across all topics of the book to help students be successful from the start. The book features a fresh new design and a strong new emphasis on the ten research-based High Impact Practices suggested by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Chapters on Emotional Intelligence and Thinking have been thoroughly updated with tools and strategies students use on campus right now. This text is suitable for first-year experience courses and freshman seminar courses.

Do you want a compact college success book with robust technology coverage? Gardner’s user-friendly, class-tested, and authoritatively research-based Step by Step to College and Career Success is for you! This brief title focuses on the most crucial skills and the most important choices students make in order to succeed in college and beyond. This is an ideal text for students taking first-year experience courses and freshman seminar courses.