Betsy O. Barefoot

Betsy O. Barefoot is a writer, researcher, and teacher whose special area of scholarship is the first-year seminar. During her tenure at USC from 1988 to 1999, she served as codirector for research and publications at the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. She also taught University 101 and graduate courses on the first-year experience and the principles of college teaching. She conducts first-year seminar faculty training workshops around the world and is frequently called on to evaluate first-year seminar outcomes. Betsy is codirector and senior scholar in the Policy Center on the First Year of College and Vice President of the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education both in Brevard, N.C. In her Policy Center role she led a major national research project to identify institutions of excellence in the first college year. She currently works with both two- and four-year campuses in evaluating all components of the first year.

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CS Select
A Database for College Success

John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
©2013 | First Edition
ISBN-13: 9781457667138
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Student Site for Your College Experience, Study Skills Edition
A Bedford/St. Martin's Student Site

John N. Garnder; Betsy O. Barefoot
©2013 | First Edition
ISBN-13: 9781457632013
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Student Site for Step by Step to College and Career Success
A Bedford/St. Martin's Student Site

John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
©2013 | Fifth Edition
ISBN-13: 9781457631948
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Student Site for Your College Experience, Concise Edition
A Bedford/St. Martin's Student Site

John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
©2013 | Tenth Edition
ISBN-13: 9781457631856
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Your College Experience: Study Skills Edition
Strategies for Success

John N. Gardner and Betsy O. Barefoot
©2013 | Tenth Edition
ISBN-13: 9781457625749
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Step by Step to College and Career Success

John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
©2013 | Fifth Edition
ISBN-13: 9781457606342
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Your College Experience, Concise Tenth Edition
Strategies for Success

John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
©2013 | Tenth Edition
ISBN-13: 9781457606311
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E-Book for Your College Experience (Access Card)
A Bedford/St. Martin's Interactive e-Book

John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
©2012 | Tenth Edition
ISBN-13: 9781457618918
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Your College Experience, Two Year College Edition

John N Gardner; Betsy O Barefoot
©2013 | Tenth Edition
ISBN-13: 9781457628047
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Student Site for Your College Experience
A Bedford/St. Martin's Student Site

John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
©2012 | Tenth Edition
ISBN-13: 9781457604249
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PowerPoints for Your College Experience
Strategies for Success

John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
©2012 | Tenth Edition
ISBN-13: 9781457604232

Written by the leading authorities on the first-year seminar and grounded i .....[+]
Written by the leading authorities on the first-year seminar and grounded in research, Your College Experience by John Gardner and Betsy Barefoot offers today’s diverse students the practical help they need to make the transition to college and get the most out of their time there. Goal setting has always been central to this text, and the Tenth Edition has been revised with added coverage and activities to strengthen this material throughout. In addition, a new focus on self-assessment of strengths will help students see where they are already succeeding so that they get off to a great start and stay in college. A full package of instructional support materials — including an Instructor’s Annotated Edition, Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, videos, and a Test Bank — provides new and experienced instructors all the tools they will need to engage students in this course and increase student retention.
Your College Experience
Strategies for Success

John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
©2012 | Tenth Edition
ISBN-13: 9780312602543
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Free Companion Site for Your College Experience Concise Edition

John N. Gardner; A. Jerome Jewler; Betsy O. Barefoot
©2012 | Ninth Edition
ISBN-13: 9781457611711

Authored by three of the nation's leading experts on the first-year experie .....[+]
Authored by three of the nation's leading experts on the first-year experience, this Concise version of Your College Experience presents a straightforward, realistic, and intelligent review of the skills students need to succeed in college. This less expensive, streamlined Concise edition offers an expanded academic focus through added coverage of writing, speaking, the library, research, and information literacy. Particularly relevant to today's students, a new Money chapter discusses managing money, building credit, and financing college. A new chapter on Emotional Intelligence explains what emotional intelligence is, why everyone should understand it, and why it matters in college. A fresh, clean new design eliminates clutter so that students can focus on the important topics.
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Free Companion Site for Step by Step to College and Career Success

John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
©2012 | Fourth Edition
ISBN-13: 9781457611766

User-friendly, class tested and authoritatively research-based, Step by Ste .....[+]
User-friendly, class tested and authoritatively research-based, Step by Step to College and Career Success offers students proven information and straightforward strategies that they can apply toward their success. The briefest title in the Gardner family of books, the authors have pared away extras and have focused on the most crucial skills and the most important choices students have to make in order to succeed in college and beyond. Step by Step is an accessible text that can be useful to all students at any institution whatever their background or goals. In the fourth edition pressing topics that affect students' lives and how they learn--such as money management, emotional intelligence, technology, and diversity--have been added and expanded within a vibrant, easy-to-navigate new design.
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Step by Step to College and Career Success

John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot
©2011 | Fourth Edition
ISBN-13: 9780312638016
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