Academic Success in College: A Guide for First-Year Students

By Viola Sebastian-Jones

The national statistics are alarming: Nearly 30% of students leave after their first year of college.About 6 out of 10 students who start at a college or university will not have a degree after six years, which represents significant costs (money and time) for students. Finally, many first-year students struggle to achieve their full academic and personal potential.Written by an Academic Dean, this book draws on the author's three decades of expertise teaching and advising students, directing first-year experience programs, and leading academic departments to help all prospective and current college students and their families understand the real challenges students face in college, especially during the freshman year. Sebastian-Jones provides effective solutions to these challenges in a concise, distilled way. Other undergraduates can also use this book to improve their academic performance and time management in order to reach their full potential. Sebastian-Jones provides all college students with the insights, tools, and strategies that work.This book includes both of Sebastian-Jones's two first-year student guides in one volume: her guide to the 5 essentials-the 5 necessities-that determine success in the first year of college, and the 12 causes of procrastination. Sebastian-Jones provides detailed discussion of these 5 necessities as well as flexible and achievable solutions to procrastination, which negatively affects academic performance and increases stress.In this book you get both: A Student's Guide to the 5 Essentials of the First-Year Experience in College Procrastination in College: Solutions for First-Year Students Topics: college guide, first year experience, freshman year, college study skills, study guides, procrastination, freshman survival, success self-help, study habits, academic success, college life, time management, stress management, college study self-help, college, university, college guides, motivational self-help, student life, college admissions guide, study strategies

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1075817919
• ISBN13: 9781075817915
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"