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Stephanie’s first official function as a newly admitted community college student was a full-day orientation session that included presentations by the college president, each of the numerous student support organizations on campus, a group scavenger hunt that acquainted her with a dozen of her new college peers and key campus offices, and a catered lunch in the student commons. The theme running through the morning’s activities was “We are here to help you succeed!,” and as a recent high school graduate who was not accepted to the state universities she applied to, Stephanie grew more convinced as the day wore on that she had made the right decision to enroll at her local community college.
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Robert Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, rev. ed. (New York: Harper Collins, 2006), 1.
Juliet K. Scherer and Mirra L. Anson, “Improving America’s Culture of Learning: What’s Missing in the Redesign Conversation,” Session Evaluation Form (presentation, annual conference of the National Association for Developmental Education, Denver, CO, February 28, 2013).
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Scherer, J.L., Anson, M.L. (2014). Introduction. In: Community Colleges and the Access Effect. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137331007_1
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