Launching the First-Year Experience Movement: The Founder's Journey - John N. Gardner

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n nAs an archetypal student success higher-educator myself, I did not enter this profession intentionally....But my life experiences did prepare me to be very successful at this work. So, what are those experiences, and types of knowledge, insight, skills that equip one to do this kind of work? This book is about encouraging the next generation of successors to use their experiences to become equity warriors within the system. - John N. Gardnern nThis book argues that today more than ever we need new and more student success leaders to step forward to make the changes that students need, and it offers the story of one such leader in the belief that it will help others see how they can make their own contribution to this movement. The author relates a story about events and individuals that launched a national and international movement to enable many more college students to proceed beyond the beginning college experience and complete the credential they are seeking. It is also the author's personal history - how he ended up spending his whole life in college, and how college can make us wiser and more successful than when we started the journey. n nJohn Gardner brings 55 years of professional experience to telling this story. He begins with the story of how colleges can and do introduce students to life changing perspectives and ideas. In Gardner's case it was a matter of being introduced to the question: what is justice? and then spending his entire professional life seekin

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