How Important Are the First Few Weeks of College? the Long Term Effects of Initial College Experiences

By Sherry A. Woosley. 2003

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The role of personality and motivation in predicting early college academic success in non-traditional students at a Hispanic-serving institution (2008, background): “Woosley (2003) found that the simple variable of whether college first year students responded to a survey predicted first-quarter success.”
Perceived Social Support and Well Being: First-Year Student Experience in University. (2014, background): “This is because students’ initial experiences have an impact on the long-term process of cultural, social and academic assimilation into the world of higher education (Reason et al., 2006; Woosley, 2003; Yorke & Longden, 2008).”