For courses in Student Success or First Year Experience.

The activities and strategies in this book focus on three core principles—critical thinking, priority management, and personal well-being. These form the foundation for academic, career, and life success.

Choices for College Success emphasizes the power of personal choice and responsibility to help students maximize their talents and minimize their anxiety by building successful habits.

Teaching & Learning Experience: Power of Personal Choice and Responsibility

Choices for College Success demonstrates how organized action and critical thinking will help students achieve academic success, create a healthy and balanced life, and realize their dreams. This program provides:

· Critical Thinking: The RED Model for critical thinking presents an eloquently simple and practical model to carefully analyze and address school and life challenges.

· Priority Management:Provides personal assessments and activities for students to reflect and apply the strategies introduced around the “choices they make”—and take responsibility for their journey using key principles underlying student success.

· Personal Well-being: A multi-dimensional model for personal well-being and balance helps students navigate the transitions and adjustments to college life and is critical to their overall sense of balance in life.

Steve Piscitelli understands, applies, and builds upon basic principles of student success. He helps students visualize their dreams and prioritize their resources on the way to a life of well-being and balance. In addition to this third edition of Choices for College Success , Pearson published Study Skills: Do I Really Need This Stuff? (third edition, 2013). Steve has also written, recorded, and produced two CDs. He maintains a YouTube Channel and posts a weekly blog on life success issues and strategies. His classroom and nationally known workshops combine energy, interaction, music, video, and humor to connect students and faculty with practical strategies. Steve earned degrees from Jacksonville University, The University of North Florida, and The University of Florida.  He brings more than thirty years of classroom teaching experience to this edition of Choices. Steve lives with his wife, Laurie, and canine companion, Buddy, in Atlantic Beach, Florida. You will find more information about Steve at www.stevepiscitelli.com

Introduction: YOU CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN!