Guides: Help Yourself Campaign @ the UNT Libraries: Locating Resources on Student Success and Navigating College Life

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Subject Headings and Call Numbers

Locate books with these subjects and call numbers at Willis and Sycamore Libraries, GOVT Online Resources, and UNT Online Resources. Physical materials can be checked out at one of our service desks or through our self-check machines for complete privacy.

Achievement Tests

LB3060.3

Admissions and Entrance Requirements

LB2351

Campus violence, including Bullying and Rape

LB2345

College Majors

LB2361 - LB2362

College Students

LB2397

College Student Orientation

LB2343.3 - LB2343.34

College Student Retention

LC142 - LC145

Relation between Higher and Secondary Education

LB2350

Self-Government of Students

LB2346

Success, Academic Achievement

BF637.S8

Students

LB3602 - LB3618

Students, Psychology

LB1117

Student Success

LB1049 - LB3610
LC208.8 - LC2781.7

Student Life, including Activities and Recreation

LA186
LB3602 - LB3604
LB3608

Universities and Colleges, Admissions

LB2351 - LB2359

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Tutoring: Writing Learning Center Services @ UNT Libraries

Each semester, the UNT Libraries provides space for walk-in services by the writing and learning centers. Visit Tutoring at UNT Libraries for more information about locations and times.

Succeed at UNT

Succeed at UNT has resources and success stories specifically for student, including information on advising, the Academic Success Center, mental health resources, money management, ways to get involved in campus life and more. Encouraging students to seek assistance is not a sign of weakness, but a vital piece of their overall success in the learning environment.

UNT Learn Anywhere

UNT Learn Anywhere is a resource for UNT campus-cased students shifting to online courses. The site has been created for UNT students for situations where we need to temporarily take courses online with minimal impact during sudden and prolonged campus or building closures caused by incidents such as a viral or infectious disease outbreak, a family emergency requiring your presence elsewhere, or a natural disaster.

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Student Retention Resources for Faculty

Student Retention Resources @ UNT shares student success ideas for faculty. These resources and ideas can be incorporated into classrooms.

Tips for Learning Online and General Academic Success

"Study Tips to Succeed as an Online Student," Centre for Innovation - Leiden University, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1DRETk-mns&feature=youtu.be.

Guide to Choosing Your College Major
Need Help Picking a Major? Guide to Choosing Your College Major offers in-depth information in several areas, including:
• A detailed explanation of many available majors, including in the humanities, STEM, and health care
• Guidance on how to declare a major, choose a minor, and even change majors
• A list of majors likely to lead to lucrative careers
• How students can choose a major based on their goals, personality, and interests
Study.com is a leading online education resource making learning accessible for over 30 million students and educators a month..

"Freshman Orientation: Tell Your Story," UNT Orientation and Transition Programs, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNd0Ui4RGvs&feature=youtu.be.

"Be Prepared! (UNT Orientation)," UNT Orientation and Transition Programs, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGaapXdcPD0&feature=youtu.be.

Adjusting to College: Student Success Videos

Student Success Series, A Student’s Guide to College Transition
There’s a lot more to college than going to class and studying! A Student’s Guide to College Transition highlights the range of opportunities available to students outside the classroom and underscores why it’s so important to take part in at least some of these activities. Cultivating new experiences and developing diverse skill sets not only enriches the overall college experience but makes students better prepared for employment opportunities. Grounded in research, but also accessible, this video will help students increase their understanding of the best opportunities for students to pursue outside the classroom to ensure skill development, increased knowledge, and overall personal growth. Closed Captioning Available.
Student Success Series, A Student's Guide to Changing Relationships
While in high school, students, their parents, teachers and guidance counselors all tend to focus on the process of getting students into college. And while SAT prep, essay writing, and the college search process are important, what’s equally important is helping students prepare for the choices and decisions they will make while they are IN college. This video reviews important life skills and knowledge development including time management, conflict management, self-advocacy, personal safety, and drug and alcohol use – which are ALL as important as academic preparation in order to be successful in college. Closed Captioning Available.
Student Success Series, A Student's Guide to Positive Habit Building
Habits are small decisions and actions taken day after day, and account for about 40 percent of our behaviors on any given day. Just as good habits can be formed over time, bad habits can be eliminated over time as well. For students entering college it’s important to form habits that will positively affect their success in school. Habits such as what to eat, how much to sleep, how active to be, how to get along with others, as well as the ability to set goals and follow-up on those goals. This video looks at a few areas where every student can improve their habit building skills and create great routines for success in college. Closed Captioning Available.
Student Success Series, A Student's Guide to Communication and Self-Presentation
It’s hard to imagine any task that doesn’t require effective communication. Whether it’s convincing your parents to extend your curfew for a special event, appealing to your teacher to reconsider a grade, charming a college admissions counselor, or promoting yourself to a potential employer... the ability to effectively express yourself - verbally as well as in writing - in a clear and concise manner is necessary. A Student's Guide to Communication and Self-Presentation examines the importance of being able to communicate successfully as well as what to think about when presenting oneself. It touches on where we learn these important skills and how they play a critical role throughout our entire lives. This video will also review the process of asking for letters of recommendation, creating an “elevator pitch” when networking, and effective interviewing and writing skills. Closed Captioning Available.
Student Success Series, A Student's Guide to Conquering Test Anxiety
Students entering college will discover that much has changed from their familiar high school setting. More will be demanded of them; they will be required to be better organized, take more and better notes, absorb more knowledge in a shorter period of time and take tests that may be far more difficult than the tests they took in high school. This higher level of assessment required for college students can lead many to feel what’s called ‘test anxiety’. For some, test anxiety can be so intense it can negatively affect academic success. But there are strategies to help! In this video you will learn how to recognize test anxiety, and how to develop strategies for reducing it. Closed Captioning Available.
Student Success Series, A Student’s Guide to Critical Thinking
When students enter college, they will begin their journey on the road to their future careers. At the core to their preparation and eventual success in these careers will be the ability to think critically, reason skillfully, and - in this era of fake news - distinguish between fact and fiction.

Why is critical thinking important? It enhances language and presentation skills, can improve comprehension as well as the expression of ideas. Critical thinking is also crucial for self-reflection. In this video, viewers will understand what it takes to think critically – to determine the facts of a subject without prejudice, place these facts and information in a pattern to better understand and explain them, and accept and reject conclusions based upon experience, judgment, and beliefs. Closed Captioning Available.
Student Success Series, A Student’s Guide to Getting Back on Track
At some point in college, most students will struggle and fall off-track, whether it’s with a class or a campus job or with eating and sleeping habits. The good news is there are many resources to help. Universities and colleges increasingly recognize the need to view students holistically and offer support services to help students get back on track. This video will help viewers understand how getting off-track happens, how to become aware of it, and strategies to overcome it. Closed Captioning Available.

Collection Highlights

College Students' Sense of Belonging by Terrell L. Strayhorn
Call Number: UNT ONLINE RESOURCES
ISBN: 9781136312397
Publication Date: 2012-12-12
Belonging - with peers, in the classroom, or on campus - is a crucial part of the college experience. It can affect a student's degree of academic achievement, or even whether they stay in school. Although much is known about the causes and impact of sense of belonging in students, little is known about how belonging differs based on students' social identities, such as race, gender, or sexual orientation, or the conditions they encounter on campus. College Students' Sense of Belongingaddresses these student sub-populations and campus environments. It offers readers practical guidelines, underpinned by theory and research, for helping students belong and thrive. Sense of belonging can come from peers, teachers or faculty, family members, social and academic groups, and living and learning environments. The book offers: a review and critique of current literature on sense of belonging in light of new and emerging theory a new conceptual model of belonging which helps the reader expand an understanding of sense of belonging new and recent research findings from quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies conducted by the author practical recommendations for improving educational environments, practices, policies, and programs to facilitate students' sense of belonging on campus. belonging in light of new and emerging theory a new conceptual model of belonging which helps the reader expand an understanding of sense of belonging new and recent research findings from quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies conducted by the author practical recommendations for improving educational environments, practices, policies, and programs to facilitate students' sense of belonging on campus.
College Success by Michael S. McPherson (Editor); Morton Owen Schapiro (Editor); College Board Editors
Call Number: LC208.8 .C66 2006
ISBN: 9780874478303
Publication Date: 2008-05-27
About two out of three high-school graduates currently enroll at one of America's 4,000 colleges or universities within a year of graduation. But even though college enrollment has increased over the past few decades, college completion rates have fallen. How do so many talented and promising students get derailed along the way? This book examines the financial and social roadblocks as well as the level of college-prep readiness that can affect learning and ultimately graduation rates. Inlight of the staggering differences that characterize American higher education and a student body with diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, College Success: What It Means and How to Make It Happen by The College Board provides a guide to promoting truly effective teaching and redefining success in a way that makes sense in today's heterogeneous world.
Coping with Stress at University by Stephen Palmer; Angela Puri
Call Number: LB3609 .P35 2006
ISBN: 1412907330
Publication Date: 2006-03-29
Coping with Stress at University comprehensively covers the main problems and stresses that a student may experience during their university career. Looking at university life from a variety of angles, this book equips the student to be able to deal with stressful situations ranging from exam pressure to relationship problems, from homesickness to managing finances. Although the problems do not change, the way a student faces them can and the more effective the approach, the less stress the student will feel when tackling their concerns. Quotes and case studies from previous students illustrate how problems have been dealt with in the past, and a number of coping techniques and exercises are provided to help prepare students for the transition into and through university life. Coping with Stress at University is an invaluable introduction to university life for any potential or current student, and it also acts as a helpful resource for parents and friends wishing to gain a greater understanding of the issues faced at university.
Defining Student Success by Lisa M. Nunn
Call Number: UNT Online Resources
ISBN: 0813563631
Publication Date: 2014-04-15
The key to success, our culture tells us, is a combination of talent and hard work. Why then, do high schools that supposedly subscribe to this view send students to college at such dramatically different rates? Why do students from one school succeed while students from another struggle? To the usual answer--an imbalance in resources--this book adds a far more subtle and complicated explanation. Defining Student Success shows how different schools foster dissimilar and sometimes conflicting ideas about what it takes to succeed--ideas that do more to preserve the status quo than to promote upward mobility. Lisa Nunn's study of three public high schools reveals how students' beliefs about their own success are shaped by their particular school environment and reinforced by curriculum and teaching practices. While American culture broadly defines success as a product of hard work or talent (at school, intelligence is the talent that matters most), Nunn shows that each school refines and adapts this American cultural wisdom in its own distinct way--reflecting the sensibilities and concerns of the people who inhabit each school. While one school fosters the belief that effort is all it takes to succeed, another fosters the belief that hard work will only get you so far because you have to be smart enough to master course concepts. Ultimately, Nunn argues that these school-level adaptations of cultural ideas about success become invisible advantages and disadvantages for students' college-going futures. Some schools' definitions of success match seamlessly with elite college admissions' definition of the ideal college applicant, while others more closely align with the expectations of middle or low-tier institutions of higher education. With its insights into the transmission of ideas of success from society to school to student, this provocative work should prompt a reevaluation of the culture of secondary education. Only with a thorough understanding of this process will we ever find more consistent means of inculcating success, by any measure.
The Essential Study Handbook by Jonathan Hancock
Call Number: UNT Online Resources
ISBN: 1529300274
Publication Date: 2019-09-10
YOU WANT TO DO WELL AT UNI - NOW THERE'S A BOOK TO SUPPORT YOU. 'Everything you need to know to succeed in Higher Education'Gaye Conroy, University of Sussex 'Great advice, strategies and models. I'd recommend it to our students'Sarah Speight, University of Nottingham THE STUDY BOOK is a practical guide to developing the academic skills you need to succeed at university, college or any higher level study. Learn how to think, research, debate, write about, and apply information - and do all the things that will directly impact on your academic success from the moment you start. It guides you through activities and processes to help you examine your learning abilities and experiences so far. It will help you to understand your particular preferences and styles, your natural advantages as well as any specific weaknesses, and then guide you to build an effective personal approach to studying. You will learn what you need to do to do well in your course, like completing high quality assignments, writing essays, and showing off your full understanding in exams. Along the way you'll find emergency tips to inject into realistic situations like when struggling with the dynamics in a group-working situation, lost in planning a complex assignment, or getting stressed in the days before an exam. It contains specific reminders about academic conventions, definitions of terminology, useful checklists to support tasks, and simplified processes to keep you on track. There are insights from other students, example scenarios, and short case-studies, all designed to root the advice in real academic context, and keep you focused on what you need to do to keep improving. 'A book that will help all students'Jeremy Dudman-Jones THIS IS THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO TAKING ON THE CHALLENGE OF STUDYING - AND COMING OUT ON TOP.
Fostering Student Success in the Campus Community by John N. Gardner (Foreword by); Gary L. Kramer (Editor)
Call Number: LB2342.92 .F67 2007
ISBN: 9781933371245
Publication Date: 2007-11-09
This book presents and examines key issues not only on addressing changing student demographics and needs but also on aligning institutional and student expectations, connecting student-oriented services systemically, organizing and fostering student services for learning, and creating and delivering services for students to achieve success on campus. While the essential supportive role student services plays in student retention and success is generally understood, this book provides several constructive approaches and key indicators that service providers can use to challenge their campuses for better results in achieving student success. While this book does not define what student success is for all institutions or suggest that one size fits all institutions, it does emphasize that student learning and achieving student success on campus is everyone's business. The chapter contributors share their wisdom on and experience in creating a student-centered culture and emphasize student services as the primary approach for putting students first in the campus community. Written for student service providers, academic departments, and others responsible for the support, direction, and coordination of services to students--vice presidents, deans, directors, and department chairs--readers will learn how to encourage a variety of desired outcomes, including student persistence, satisfaction, learning, and personal development. Also included is a systems perspective that will help readers evaluate and align services for students with the goals of both the students and the institution.
The Latino Student's Guide to College Success by Leonard A. Valverde
Call Number: LC2670.6 .H57 2002eb
ISBN: 0313006997
Publication Date: 2002
The Latino community is the fastest growing minority group in America, and quickly becoming a major player in America's workforce. Unfortunately, Latinos encounter cultural and societal obstacles that can hinder academic achievement. This inspirational guide gives Latino students practical skills for advancing in a college environment.The Latino Student's Guide to College Success: Second Edition, Revised and Updated provides a blueprint for collegiate success. The first eight chapters guide students through subjects such as selecting a college, navigating the application process, forming effective study habits, accessing student support services, and planning for advanced degrees. The second part is comprised of eight inspirational stories by Latino graduates sharing their college experiences. Lastly, a third section features a listing of colleges with a record of graduating the most Latinos, as well as a list of the top ten colleges with the most undergraduate Latino students. The revised and updated second edition of this popular book features the latest economic and demographic changes that have emerged since the first edition was published. It also includes six new chapters introducing the impact of technological advancements and changes in cultural trends.
A Pocket Guide to College Success by Jamie Shushan
Call Number: LB1062.6 .S58 2017
ISBN: 1319030890
Publication Date: 2016-11-11
Get practical advice in a concise guide as Pocket Guide to College Success prepares you for your college careee -- from the very first day to graduation and beyond -- by focusing on key issues such as motivation and goal setting.
Spirituality in College Students' Lives by Alyssa Bryant Rockenbach (Editor); Matthew J. Mayhew (Editor)
Call Number: LB3609 .S67 2013
ISBN: 0203118979
Publication Date: 2012-08-21
Spirituality in College Students' Lives draws on data from a large-scale national survey examining the spiritual development of undergraduates and how colleges and universities can be more effective in facilitating students' spiritual growth. In this book, contributors from the fields of education, psychology, sociology, social work, and religion present research-based studies that explore the importance of students' spirituality and the impact of the college experience on their spiritual development. Offering a wide range of theoretical perspectives and worldviews, this volume also includes reflections from distinguished researchers and practitioners which highlight implications for practice. This original edited collection explores: Emerging theoretical frames and analytical approaches; differences in spiritual expressions and experiences among sub-populations; the impact of campus contexts; and how college experiences shape spiritual outcomes. Spirituality in College Students' Lives is an important resource for higher education and student affairs faculty, administrators, and practitioners interested in nurturing the inner lives of college students.
Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era by Ann Lathrop; Kathleen E. Foss
Call Number: UNT ONLINE RESOURCES
ISBN: 0585318891
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
The Internet, high-tech calculators, and other technological advances have made student cheating easier and more common than ever before. This book helps you put a stop to high-tech and more traditional low-tech forms of cheating and plagiarism. Learn to recognize the danger signs for cheating and how to identify material that has been copied. Sample policies for developing academic integrity, reproducible lessons for students and faculty, and lists of helpful online and print resources are just some of the features of this important guide. A must read for concerned educators, administrators, and parents.
Student Resistance by Mark Edelman Boren
Call Number: LB3610 .B665 2019
ISBN: 9781138595088
Publication Date: 2019-05-09
Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subjectobserves the rise and progression of student activism across the globe. By selecting critical case studies from the medieval to modern period, Mark Boren reveals how friction between activists and the academy can culminate in a violent struggle for power. Using a uniquely international approach, the book offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of university activism and its influence on national politics and broader social movements. Specific instances of resistance, from medieval uprisings across European universities to the Tiananmen Square Massacre, are explored to produce a detailed historical study of power relations and oppression. Globalization and rapid technological advances have established more accessible platforms for collective activism whilst recent political upsets have generated a ripe environment for students to increase their efforts of resistance. This second edition addresses repercussions of the internet and social media age on the evolution of campus activism in the United States and abroad, from #blacklivesmatter to the Palestinian West Bank protests. This timely revision of Student Resistance continues toreflect on the vital role that resistance plays in the evolution of modern societies and the book remains an essential text for both students and scholars of youth activism. repercussions of the internet and social media age on the evolution of campus activism in the United States and abroad, from #blacklivesmatter to the Palestinian West Bank protests. This timely revision of Student Resistance continues toreflect on the vital role that resistance plays in the evolution of modern societies and the book remains an essential text for both students and scholars of youth activism.
Student Success by Timothy L. Walter
Call Number: LB2395 .W35 1993b
ISBN: 015500588X
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
Student Success Secrets by Eric Jensen
Call Number: LB1049 .J43 2003
ISBN: 0764120077
Publication Date: 2003-05-01
Updated so that it speaks to today's students, this long-time Barron's bestseller presents strategies to improve test scores, a plan to help students develop regular and effective study habits, tips on retaining information from their reading, and methods for taking useful classroom notes. They will also find advice on getting the most out of library and computer research facilities. Here is a book that will help students foster the habit of success in all academic subjects.
Work smart, not hard! for college students by Jane Schulte, Tyler Hallman
Call Number: LB2343.32 .S38 2010
ISBN: 1604817186
Publication Date: 2010
A Note from the Co-Author: I am currently a freshman at the University of Kentucky majoring in business. After reading and beginning to utilize the tools in my Mother's first book, WORK SMART, Not Hard!, I realized that college students could also benefit from them if posed in ways that addressed their specific needs. I had heard many horror stories about students spending countless hours in the library or sacrificing valuable sleep for school work. After being given the privilege to co-author this book, I now tell them that they could better utilize their time by using all of the WORK SMART tools, especially the PEND system, rather than exhausting themselves. It is clear to me that college students can effectively manage their time without losing sleep or being overly stressed and this book shows the way. Here's to a full night's sleep! ~ Tyler Hallman