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Finding the First Year
by P. Cody Canning
Finding the First Year is an arts-based dissertation and my quest to understand why I feel like such a failure in higher education administration and teaching professor working in the first year of college. It is part research project, part personal voyage, and part time capsule capturing the state of college life in the first year today. This is a perfect listen for career educators, interested parents, and secondary and college students of all levels. Welcome. Sit back and enjoy.
Episodes
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Don't Go Killing All the Bees
Finding the First Year is over. What did I find? In this episode, I explore my major findings, implications of this study, what needs to change, and how it all changed me. Want to follow along for professional learning? Access the Finding Your First Year packet and follow along with your team or…
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Case of the Missing Student
Common in the first year experience is the "missing student." Where do they go? Why would they pay for this and disappear? You might remember me mentioning Taylor, the student who joined the research group only to vanish. Well, as Nicole Bowers would say, attrition is also data. So, to make…
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The Minor Gesture
We enter the holiday season, late November and early December. After combing through the possibilities that the first year is a con job or a dystopia or a tragedy, all to no avail. However, standing at a football game with my daughter and nephew, I realize what this story actually is: the root of...
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Tragedy and Enshittification
As we move into November of the first year, I start to think of my experience, and that of my students and colleagues, through the lens of ancient Greek tragedy. Is it our destiny to struggle in these ways? Is there little we can do about it? And, what if this slide looks like another chapter of...
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Doublethink
Welcome to the month of October. The honeymoon is over. Oh, no! What if the first-year is a dystopia?! How could this be so? Here, I examine the Huxleyean and Orwellian landscape of the first year, culminating in a meditation on the destruction of language in first-year student success. To be a...
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The Honeymoon, Pt II
The semester begins here in August and September. We now move beyond the elephant in the room, the cost of things, and meet our fellow travellers. Two students: Carmen and Niko; Two professionals: Ana and Mirna. I discovered that while "the honeymoon" may describe the student experience, it does...
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The Honeymoon (and the Cost of the Thing)
As professionals, anytime we gather to discuss first-year student success and retention, there is an elephant in the room: the cost of college. Listeners may be surprised to find out how little we include this elephant in our conversations. There is almost a passive acceptance that costs are…
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Am I a Loser?
I begin my quest to find the first year (of college) and myself. Working in the first year at a public institution in a state that has largely withdrawn public funding for higher education means supporting retention (in other words, helping students return for a second year). At schools like…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Finding the First Year is an arts-based dissertation and my quest to understand why I feel like such a failure in higher education administration and teaching professor working in the first year of college. It is part research project, part personal voyage, and part time capsule capturing the state of college life in the first year today.
This is a perfect listen for career educators, interested parents, and secondary and college students of all levels.
Welcome. Sit back and enjoy.
HOSTED BY
P. Cody Canning
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