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The author of Dean's List: 10 Strategies for College Success is this person, a former dean at Johns Hopkins.
John Bader
True or false:
If we continue to avoid discomfort and stray from building the tools we need to understand our world, we will cheat ourselves of a richer life and a larger world.
Explain?
True: The Author argues we should measure college success by how much we feel fulfilled and challenged by our education. A good college education will introduce you to the broad canvas of life, past and present, along with the tools to make sense of it. However, if we don't understand something, we avoid it by turning away because of its challenge.
The central piece of advice in Chapter 1 is to focus......
On learning rather than grades
Name 3 resources on campus:
Examples: Career Center, Leadership Center, Chemistry Learning Center, Academic Advisor, Counseling Center, McKinley Health Center
How can you practice exploring your curiosity?
volunteering, choosing classes that allow you to challenge your curiosity, taking leadership classes, leadership minor/leadership certificate
What Fighting Illini legend donated $2 million to fund and promote I-LEAP?
True or false: Is success the same as getting good grades?
False: Good grades are certainly one indicator of success, but they are not the only measure.
What does the book offer at the end of strategy #1?
The opportunity to "Put It in Perspective"
How many cultural houses do we have on campus? Can you name all of them?
5: BNAACC, La Casa, Asian American Cultural Center, Native American House, Salaam Middle East & North Africa Cultural Center
Explain this sentence from strategy 1:
"Instead, I suggest that you think about what it means to be learned, to obtain an education motivated by curiosity rather than by the achievement of good grades."
a self-motivated process (asking questions, seeking answers, connecting ideas) of exploration driven by a desire to understand how the world works, rather than chasing good grades.
True or false: Strategy 2 in our book is "Begin With the End in Mind."
False: correct answer is "Build a New Relationship with Your Parents".
How you approach a college education matters
What is the trouble with grades, according to the author?
If we get an A; relief, validated, and technically can't do any better, so we may ignore feedback.
If it is a weaker grade; disappointed, embarrassed, and may be harder to listen and learn from the feedback criticism
Grades are great to measure learning, but they overshadow what you gained on a deep, intellectual level.
True or false: UIUC was founded in 1876.
false: correct answer is 1867
Obsessing about grades can encourage us to forget what we have learned as soon as the final grade is recorded.
True: "No one is ever going to test me on this again." or "When am I ever going to use this again?"
Sophisticated, curious, skilled, or learned person.
Craft your own definition of "Learned". What do you want to learn in college?
No right or wrong answers! Take accountability and claim your education.
What does "I-LEAP" stand for?
Illinois Academic Enrichment and Leadership Program
Explain the connection between the pressure from family to "succeed" and our focus on good grades. How does this pressure impact a student's academic journey?
- Unhealthy pressure can lead to lower grades, as students become more focused on the fear of failure rather than learning.
- The pressure to do well can cause students to care more about their letter grades than what they are learning.
When was our program, "I-LEAP", created?
2006