FYE: Benefits for Students
How does FYE help students?
- Students better manage the transition from high school to college.
- Students develop an excitement and enthusiasm for learning.
- Students develop effective study skills.
- Students see the relationship between what they learn in the classroom and the world beyond the university.
- Students appreciate that learning extends beyond the classroom and is a lifelong process.
- Students gain a heightened appreciation for the relationship between various academic disciplines, and an understanding of how knowledge in one discipline can inform our view of other disciplines.
- Students become more successful in their first year, making them more likely to persist to degree completion.
- Students and faculty have the opportunity to interact in as least one small-section class each semester of the first year, to facilitate the sorts of relationships and learning activities not often possible in large, introductory classes.
- Students are socialized into a community of scholars who prize active learning, civic engagement, and immersion into the world of ideas.