Who's Leading You?: Success and Meaning in the Digital Age
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Copyright: 2021
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Instructors of first-year experience and foundational courses feel a lot of pressure. They often face roomfuls of students with very different levels of preparation, and instructors are expected to get everyone up to standard. But how can they meet these expectations when we know that many of our students won’t even open the textbook or come to class?
Who's Leading You?: Success and Meaning in the Digital Age gives students the chance to learn to lead themselves so they can be better in college, and more successful after they graduate. The ideas and practices around time management, habit formation, decisions, values, producing better work, and changing mindsets are all supported by the latest evidence, and work for thousands, sometimes millions, of people. These topics are framed within the larger context of major changes facing the current generation of students, and how they can try to benefit from those changes rather than be crushed by, or simply resist them.
The author believes that student success should be the primary goal of foundational courses in colleges and universities. Academic success, from passing a course, finding the right major, graduating, and even winning prestigious scholarships is not just about attending lectures and doing the readings. It requires building a personalized foundation of behaviors, confidence, and mindsets that allow academic requirements to be met more effectively. This text can be an integral part of that process, either as a primary resource or as a supplement to existing course content. It is only by working on these foundations first that college can truly be for everyone.
CHAPTER 1 You
CHAPTER 2 Change
CHAPTER 3 Time
CHAPTER 4 Habit
CHAPTER 5 Produce
CHAPTER 6 Judgement
CHAPTER 7 Mindset
CHAPTER 8 Recovery
CHAPTER 9 Now
Recognized in Canadian Who’s Who since 2010 (merit-only selection), Bruce Arai is Associate Professor of Leadership at Wilfrid Laurier University. He spent 14 years as a senior university administrator where he led the development of 15 new undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as the physical expansion of Laurier’s campus in Brantford. His focus has always been on student success, especially for college transfer students. Bruce and three colleagues were commissioned by the Ontario government to examine student success among college transfer students to inform policy in the province. He developed Ontario’s first comprehensive transfer credit policy between a university and the province’s entire college system. He has also been retained as a management consultant to leadership teams in the college, insurance, and not-for-profit sectors. Bruce received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of British Columbia in 1995.