Thriving in the Community College and Beyond: Strategies for Academic Success and Personal Development

This version includes LASSI (Learning and Study Strategies Inventory)

Use a text for your first-year seminar that speaks directly to your community or technical college students.

Thriving in the Community College & Beyond is a comprehensive and knowledge focused book written specifically to students in the community and technical college. This book assists students in making a smooth transition into college by laying out an academic, social and emotional process that community college students can use to follow throughout their college success and beyond.

Topics covered in this book include:
• Principles of community college success
• Self-awareness
• Goal-setting
• Learning strategies
• Time and money management
• Test-taking and study skills
• Communication and relationship including conflict management
• Higher-level learning
• Diversity
• Educational planning
• Health and wellness

Book Features:
• Case studies at the end of each chapter
• Relevant personal stories from the authors
• Who's in Charge? Scenarios
• Think About It sections throughout the chapters
• Perspectives from former first-year students

Each book includes access to LASSI (Learning and Study Strategies Inventory), which is a 10-scale, 80-item assessment of students' awareness about and use of learning and study strategies related to skill, will and self-regulation components of strategic learning.

Also included is an access code for My Power Learning online learning style assessment and learning style report. Students can become a "Power Learner" by understanding their learning style and using it to their advantage.

Optional - with the adoption of this text, you will have the option of including Folio180. This online student portfolio provides a single location for students to collect their activities, accomplishments and supporting documentation in a single location during their college careers.

For the standard version of Thriving in the Community College & Beyond click here.