First Year Experience in the States

First Year Experience in the States

Date: 31 October 2007 (Wednesday)
Speaker: Miss Emily Ng (Office of University General Education)

Building on student development and engagement theories, First Year Experience or FYE, addresses student’s experience as a whole and focus on student’s development needs. FYE initiates, through shaping student’s learning experiences (both inside and outside classroom) and facilitating academic and social integration, aim at building a good foundation for learning and smoothening students’ transition from secondary education to tertiary education.  FYE has become a widely adapted practice in the US in the last two decades.

In July 2007, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, the major advocate of FYE, organized the 20th International Conference on the First-Year Experience. In order to learn about the development and recent trends of first-year initiatives worldwide, particularly in the US, and to network with the organizer and other practitioners in the field, Office of University General Education sent a delegate to the conference. In this session, Miss Emily Ng of OUGE will report on the basics of FYE and the conference trip. 

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