S1
The author of Dean's List: 10 Strategies for College Success is this person, a former dean at Johns Hopkins.
John Bader
The central piece of advice in Chapter 1 is to focus......
On learning rather than grades
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.
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 do so, taking leadership classes, taking advantage of a leadership minor, and or leadership certificate
What does the book offer at the end of strategy #1?
The opportunity to "Put It in Perspective"
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 Fighting Illini legend donated $2 million to fund and promote I-LEAP?
How you approach a college education matters
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: Habit 2 in our book is "Begin With the End in Mind."
False: correct answer is "Build an Adult Relationship with Your Parents".
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
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.
Sophisticated, curious, skilled, or learned person.
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?"
What does "I-LEAP" stand for?
Illinois Academic Enrichment and Leadership Program
True or false: UIUC was founded in 1876.
false: correct answer is 1867
When was our program, "I-LEAP", created?
2006