ACA 115 - Success and Study Skills: Welcome

This volume provides practical ways colleges can focus on the College Completion Agenda

The author of the best-selling book What the Best College Teachers Do is back with more humane, doable, and inspiring help, this time for students who want to get the most out of college"and every other educational enterprise, too.

This book serves as a guide to help women on their path of empowerment and answers the questions: What is empowerment? How can I become empowered? Where do I start?It also has a message for every citizen of the world who wants to make a difference, starting with the fact that girls' empowerment concerns all of us and the future we want to create for ourselves and our loved ones.Finally, the reader's question: "How can I help?" is answered with a simple, but powerful empowerment system which anyone, anywhere, can do right now!

Constrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve the quality of education? And can students get more out of college without paying higher tuition? Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs conclude that the limited resources of colleges and students need not diminish the undergraduate experience. At every turning point in students' undergraduate lives, it was the people, not the programs, that proved critical.