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Finding the First Year

Hosted by P. Cody Canning · EN · 8 episodes

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Episodes
8
Last ep.
8 days ago
Avg length
46m
Booking Probability™
36
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Listen Score
13
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Virality (30d)
46
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About this podcast

Finding the First Year is an arts-based dissertation and my quest to understand why I feel like such a failure in higher education administration and teaching professor working in the first year of college. It is part research project, part personal voyage, and part time capsule capturing the state of college life in the first year today. This is a perfect listen for career educators, interested parents, and secondary and college students of all levels. Welcome. Sit back and enjoy.

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P. Cody Canning hosts Finding the First Year, a education show with 8 episodes published.

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Don't Go Killing All the Bees

Feb 27, 202657mEp. 7S1

Finding the First Year is over. What did I find? In this episode, I explore my major findings, implications of this study, what needs to change, and how it all changed me. Want to follow along for professional learning?

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Case of the Missing Student

Feb 26, 202619mS1

Common in the first year experience is the "missing student." Where do they go? Why would they pay for this and disappear? You might remember me mentioning Taylor, the student who joined the research group only to vanish

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The Minor Gesture

Feb 25, 202656mEp. 6S1

We enter the holiday season, late November and early December. After combing through the possibilities that the first year is a con job or a dystopia or a tragedy, all to no avail. However, standing at a football game wi

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Tragedy and Enshittification

Feb 25, 202648mEp. 5S1

As we move into November of the first year, I start to think of my experience, and that of my students and colleagues, through the lens of ancient Greek tragedy. Is it our destiny to struggle in these ways? Is there litt

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Doublethink

Feb 25, 202657mEp. 4S1

Welcome to the month of October. The honeymoon is over. Oh, no! What if the first-year is a dystopia?! How could this be so? Here, I examine the Huxleyean and Orwellian landscape of the first year, culminating in a medit

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The Honeymoon, Pt II

Feb 25, 202649mEp. 3S1

The semester begins here in August and September. We now move beyond the elephant in the room, the cost of things, and meet our fellow travellers. Two students: Carmen and Niko; Two professionals: Ana and Mirna. I discov

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The Honeymoon (and the Cost of the Thing)

Feb 25, 202629mEp. 2S1

As professionals, anytime we gather to discuss first-year student success and retention, there is an elephant in the room: the cost of college. Listeners may be surprised to find out how little we include this elephant i

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Am I a Loser?

Feb 24, 202649mEp. 1S1

I begin my quest to find the first year (of college) and myself. Working in the first year at a public institution in a state that has largely withdrawn public funding for higher education means supporting retention (in

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Age
25-54
Consumer type
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Topics covered

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Finding the First Year is hosted by P. Cody Canning. The show is categorised under education and has published 8 episodes.

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Finding the First Year has published 8 episodes.

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