The Complete Guide to College Success: What Every Student Needs to Know

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Summary: An Upbeat Guide to College Work
Review: This guide to college success has 3 parts: Personal development, social and interpersonal excellence and academic success. The author's goal is to encourage readers to "get the most out of the college experience." (p. xiii).

Starting with a chapter on the power of positive beliefs, the author takes students through a crash course on college life. These ideas are not new to anyone who has taught. However, the author's voice is upbeat. There are opportunities for the reader to become engaged in the author's suggestions by evoking visual images and answering mini-questionnaires.

As a college administrator and instructor, I am always on the look-out for guides that can ease the transition between high school and college. Many students struggle to balance all of the conflicting demands in their lives. Maybe this guide can encourage students to expand their vision of how to get the most out of college.