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Assignment - Week 3

Assignment - Week 3

Q Please review the Course Project Overview (found under Week 1) before beginning this assignment. Your preparation would be incomplete without a description of actual practices used to engage first-year students and increase the likelihood that they will return for a second year of study. This week you will gather information on best practices at real colleges and universities, taking note of the provider of the program or service and the target population (intended recipients) Based on your personal knowledge and your review of the literature, identify at least three colleges that have been recognized for offering high-impact experiences for students. Research their websites and create a table listing the college in column 1; the practice in column 2; the provider (e.g., faculty, student affairs staff, or both) in column 3; and the target population (e.g., first-year students, second-year students, all students, etc.) in column 4. (Assignment length: Table based on number of best practices) By Day 7 Submit your Scanning for Best Practices table as an MSWord Doc Submission and Grading Information To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following: • Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK3Proj+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name. • Click the Week 3 Course Project Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment. • Click the Week 3 Course Project link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area. • Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK3Proj+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open. • If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database. • Click on the Submit button to complete your submission. Course Project Background: Scanning for Best Practices

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