Dear Team Bell,
we had a really good meeting on Monday, July 20.
Following the brainstorming session at the first meeting (in June), your ideas were categorized by where they might fit into the book, as follows:
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Chapter 1: Welcome to College
- Expectations of college- met or not
- Adjusting to new environment- school city, physical/natural environment
- Learn campus services
- Safety/Awareness/Naiveté
- Top 10 things to do before you get out of college (by year)
Chapter 2: Grades: Can You Perform without The Pressure?
- Pressure to achieve
- Grade inflation expectations
Chapter 3: Support Your Local Teacher
- Presentation of Self (TA/prof)
- Authority (negotiating, awareness)
Chapter 4: An Academic Question
Chapter 5: Questions of Academic Integrity
- Ethics/Plagiarism/Cheating
Chapter 6: Everybody Hates to Write
Chapter 7: Wisdom and Knowledge
Chapter 8: Pursuing Wisdom in the Academy
- Student Involvement in Educational Politics
- Degree Stratification
- Majors
Chapter 9: Adventures in Desocialization
- Dealing with Stereotypes & presentation of self
- Exploring/Curiosity (physical, intellectual, philosophical)
Chapter 10: Media Me
- Role of Advertisement
- Self-image
- Dealing with Stereotypes & presentation of self
Chapter 11: Love
- Online Dating (love)
Chapter 12: Trouble with Parents
Chapter 13: The Painful Avenues of Upward Mobility
- Hierarchy
- Presentation of Self
Chapter 14: Graduation: What They Forgot to Mention
Chapter 15: Career: Friend or Foe?
- $ / Jobs
- Networking
- Presentation of Self / Accomplishment of professionalism
- Transition-college to work world
- Loans
- Tuition costs
- Student Discounts, practical tips
- Scholarships/grants
Chapter 16: Directing Your Own Development
- Activism
- Community Involvement
- Social Change
- Disillusionment (apathy, involvement?)
- Expectations of college- met or not
- Exploring/Curiosity (physical, intellectual, philosophical)
- Getting involved in cultural/community experiences on and off campus
- Self absorbed / Community involvement
New Chapter: Technology
New Chapter: Personal Challenges / Surviving College / ?
- Disability
- Drugs
- Depression
- Pressure to achieve
- Connection/Disconnection
- Non-Traditional Students (transfers, pregnant/ parents, immigrants commuter etc.)
- Student Relationship to Spiritual Heritage
- Student time off- breaks, stress, leisure
- Majors
- Culture
- Presentation of Self / Self-image
- Gender
- Race
- Class
- Scheduling life/Attitude/Perspective/Prioritizing
- Community involvement
- Disillusionment (apathy, involvement?)
- Expectations of college- met or not
- Exploring/Curiosity (physical, intellectual, philosophical)
- Authority (negotiating, awareness)
- Getting involved in cultural/community experiences on and off campus
- Self absorbed / Community involvement
- Adjusting to new environment- school city, physical/natural environment
Every chapter
- Links that you use for any of these topics
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It looks like there will be a lot of contributions to a new chapter on Personal Challenges (working title), which are welcome; however, we also know that we will have a new chapter on Technology, and we VERY MUCH NEED YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS ON THE TOPIC OF TECHNOLOGY! Things have changed a lot with technology, FAST, since the last edition of the book, and the students of Fall 2010 and beyond need to hear what you have to say about (for example)
- Facebooking
- text messaging
- laptops
- how to best use the new technologies
- much, much more.
Our next meeting will be on Monday, August 17, also in Haines A25, and then there will very possibly be only one more group meeting after that, on Monday, September 14.
If you are wondering how much you'll be able to contribute to the book, think of it this way: ONE PAGE is a full contribution. You don't have to write lots of pieces (though any and all are welcome!). If you have ONE IMPORTANT THING TO SAY, then that is your contribution - and that is perfect.
Please post as soon as you have something. And if you only have a work in progress, you can post that too, because you can always go back and edit your online posts.
PLEASE HAVE EVERYTHING POSTED BY THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 so that the editing team can review your contributions before our Monday, August 17 meeting.
Questions? Please let us know.
doctorta@gmail.com
mcgrane@chapman.edu
gunderson@chapman.edu
Please also look over and comment on your co-conspirators' contributions; many have already been posted on our Team Bell website, and the authors eagerly await your comments!
all the best,
until soon!
Terri