W&M ScholarWorks Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects 1992 Helping first-year college students climb the academic ladder: Report of a national survey of freshman seminar programming in American higher education Betsy Overman Barefoot College of William & Mary - School of Education Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd Part of the Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Higher Education Commons, and the Student Counseling and Personnel Services Commons Recommended Citation Barefoot, Betsy Overman, "Helping first-year college students climb the academic ladder: Report of a national survey of freshman seminar programming in American higher education" (1992). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539618580. https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.25774/w4-4p9k-8r77 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
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