This document provides advice and information to help students succeed in college. It discusses how college prepares students for career success by improving employment opportunities and earning potential. It also notes increasing diversity in the student population. To be successful, students must be motivated, committed, responsible, and develop positive habits. Lifelong learning principles learned in college include learning from failures and celebrating successes. Academic integrity and habits of the mind like persistence and flexibility also lead to academic achievement.

1. Welcome to College!

2. Questions to Consider
How will college prepare you for life?
How can you get motivated?
Who on campus can help you make the
most of your education?
What is the connection between
college and lifelong learning?

3. Education
Prepares you for career success.
Improves your chances for
employment.
Increases earning potential.
Broadens your world
view.
Helps you develop
flexibility.
Helps you build team-
work skills.

4. Changing Student Demographics
Increasing minority enrollment.
Increasing number of returning adults.
Older student population
Financial independence
Supporting families
More single parents
Increasing number of working students.
Increasing number of part-time students.
Increasing enrollment at Community Colleges.

5. To Be Successful, You Must…
Be motivated.
Make a commitment.
Develop positive habits.
Be responsible.
Acknowledge and face
your fears.
Build self-esteem.
Think positively.
Follow through by
taking action.

6. Lifelong Learning Principles
Learned in College
• Learn from your failures.
Evaluate what happened.
Make changes for the future.
• Celebrate your successes.
Evaluate what happened.
Use the same strategies in the future.

7. Academic Integrity Involves:
Honesty.
Trust.
Fairness.
Respect.
Responsibility.

8. Habits of the Mind Leading to
Academic Success
Persistence.
Managing impulsivity.
Using empathy and understanding with
others.
Flexibility.
Metacognition.
Striving for accuracy and precision.
Questioning.

9. More Habits of the Mind (1)
Recognizing and applying past
knowledge to new situations.
Thinking and communicating with
clarity and precision.
Using all your senses to gather data.
Using creativity, imagination, and
innovation.
Responding with wonderment and
awe.

10. More Habits of the Mind (2)
Taking responsible risks.
Finding humor.
Thinking interdependently.
Becoming lifelong
learners.

11. People Who Consistently Use
Habits of the Mind:
Tend to use behavior patterns
that work.
Recognize and value behaviors that
work over those which don’t.
Have the basic skills and ability to carry
out the working behaviors.
Make an ongoing effort to evaluate and
improve performance.