The National Resource Center for
The First-Year Experience
and Students in Transition
Remember, Reflect, Refocus
To collect and
disseminate
information about the
first college year and
other significant
student transitions
To assist educators in
enhancing the learning,
success, satisfaction,
retention, and
graduation of college
students in transition.
The “Me” Decade
Best Picture
“Bette Davis Eyes”
1980, Nation at Risk Report
Americans come
home from Iran
Best Song
Pac Man & Smurfs
Ronald Reagan
takes oath
1981
Lech Walesa
Median Income: $19,074
Unemployment: 7.1%
First-class stamp: $0.15
O'Connor
nominated
Falklands War
Best Picture
Cabbage Patch Dolls
Gandhi
“Always On My Mind”
Best Song
Brezhnev dies
Andropov succeeds
200th Birthday
Of Constitution
Median Income: $20,171
Unemployment: 7.6%
First-class stamp: $0.20
1982
The computer
Cheers
Equal Rights Amendment fails ratification
Terrorism in Beirut
Best Picture
US invades
Grenada
Terms of Endearment
“Every Breath You Take”
Aquino assassinated
South Korean Boeing 747 shot down
Best Song
Median Household Income: $20,885
Unemployment: 9.7%
First-class stamp: $0.20
1983
Ronald Regan &
Yuri Andropov
Sally Ride
first US woman astronaut
1983
Indian Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi assassinated
Best Picture
Amadeus
President Reagan
re-elected
“What's Love
Got To Do With It”
Bell System
broken up
Best Song
Median Income:$22,415
Unemployment: 9.6%
1984
Peter
Ueberroth
Soviet Union withdraws
from Summer Olympics
The Cosby Show
Toxic gas leaks from
Union Carbide plant in India
1984
Achille Lauro
Out Of Africa
Best Picture
“We Are The World”
Rock Hudson
dies of AIDS
US budgetbalancing
bill enacted
Best Song
Federal debt: $1817.5 billion
Median Income: $23,618
Unemployment: 7.5%
First-class stamp: $0.20
1985
Deng Xiaoping
Chernenko dies
Gorbachev succeeds
Glasnost and Perestroika
Reagan and Gorbachev summit
1985
Challenger explodes
Best Picture
playing
hooky
Platoon
“That's What
Friends Are For”
Best Song
Marcos flees
Philippines
Chernobyl
Rehnquist
approved as
Chief Justice
Iran-Contra
revealed
Median Income: $24,897
1986
Soviet Union launches the Mir
Corazon Aquino
1986
1986
The Center is
chartered.
Best Picture
Bork rejected
The Last Emperor
New Coke
“Somewhere
Out There”
Baby Jessica
Best Song
Federal debt: $2346.1 billion
Median Income: $26,061
Unemployment: 7.0%
First-class stamp: $0.22
Iran-Contra hearings
Oliver North
1987
Mikhail Gorbachev
Black Monday
1987
Southampton
Murphy Brown
Best Picture
Rainman
Bush wins
“Don't Worry,
Be Happy”
Best Song
Federal debt: $2601.3 billion
Median Income: $27,225
Unemployment: 6.2%
First-class stamp: $0.22
Pan-Am 747 crashes
in Lockerbie, Scotland
1988
Endangered Earth
Pakistan's Bhutto
first woman to lead a Muslim nation
1988
Toronto
1988 Monograph
1st Monograph
Character Development
1988
First National Survey on
Freshman Seminar Programs
Newsletter introduced
Best Picture
Driving Miss
Daisy
Tiananmen Square
“Wind Beneath My Wings”
Best Song
Mikhail
Gorbachev
Colin R. Powell
1st African-American
Chairman of
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Berlin Wall falls
Animation
magic
with
Roger
Rabbit
1989
US troops invade Panama
Exxon Valdez
1989
Published by Jossey-Bass
Journal introduced
Desert Shield
escalates to
Desert Storm
Best Picture
East and West Germany
reunited
“From A Distance”
Best Song
Mandela freed
Dissolution
of the USSR
1990
The Two
George Bushes
Martha Stuart
1st advocates
awards program
South African Parliament
repeals apartheid
Anita Hill
Best Picture
The Silence of the Lambs
Dick
Tracy
“Unforgettable”
Persian Gulf War ends
Best Song
Federal debt: $3598.5 billion
Median Income: $30,126
Unemployment: 5.6%
First-class stamp: $0.25
1991
Ted Turner
Yeltsin elected president
of Russian Republic
Soviet Union breaks up
1991
1991
Cambridge
1991 Monographs
Perspectives
Volume I
The Freshman
Orientation Seminar
1991 Monograph
Supplemental Instruction
1991 Monographs
Annotated
Bibliography
Residence Life
Programs
1991 Monographs
Writing in the
First Year
Exploring the Evidence
2nd National Survey on
Freshman Seminar Programs
UN approves US-led
force to guard food
for Somalia
Best Picture
Unforgiven
“Tears In Heaven”
Bush and Yeltsin
proclaim end
to the Cold War
Best Song
Federal debt: $4002.1 billion
Median Income: $30,636
Unemployment: 6.8%
First-class stamp: $0.29
1992
Bill Clinton
Rodney
King
South Central LA riots
1992
1992 Monograph
Perspectives
Volume II
Best Picture
Schindler’s List
Branch Davidians
standoff in Waco
“A Whole New World”
(Aladdin's Theme)
Brady Bill signed
European Union
Best Song
Federal debt: $4351.4 billion
Median Income: $31,241
Unemployment: 7.5%
1993
The PeaceMakers
NAFTA approved
1993 Monographs
University
Colleges
New Student
Orientation
Residential
Colleges
Cease-fire in
Northern Ireland
Friends
Best Picture
Forrest Gump
“Streets Of
Philadelphia”
Best Song
Major league
baseball players
strike
Federal debt: $4643.7 billion
Median Household Income: $32,264
Unemployment: 6.9%
First-class stamp: $0.29
1994
Pope John Paul II
Serbs in Sarajevo
Kurt Cobain commits suicide
"Heroin chic” look is in
1994
Dublin
1994 Monograph
Advising Undecided
College Students
3rd National Survey on
Freshman Seminar Programs
Video Resources 1994
Your College Experience:
Strategies for Success
Listserv Established
First-Year Experience
fye-list@vm.sc.edu
WorldWide Web site established
1994
Oklahoma City
Bombing
Best Picture
Braveheart
OJ Simpson trial
“Kiss From
A Rose”
Best Song
Tiger Woods
Mir docks with
US shuttle
Median Income: $34,076
Unemployment: 6.1%
First-class stamp: $0.32
1995
Newt Gingrich
Million Man
March
1995
1995
1995 Monograph
School-College Collaboration
1995 Monographs
Critical
Thinking
First-Year Academic
Advising
"mad cow”
disease
1996 American
Women's
Gymnastic Team
Best Picture
English Patient
Unabomber
arrested
“Change The
World”
US budget crisis
Best Song
Welfare reform bill
Ellen
Federal debt: $5207.3 billion
Median Income: $35,492
Unemployment: 5.6%
1996
Clinton reelected
Dr. David Ho
MVP
1996
St. Andrews
1996
1996 Monographs
Community Colleges
The 1994 National
Survey of Freshman
Seminar Programs
1996 Monographs
Students with
Disabilities
Student
Employment
TV ratings system debuts
TVY
Best Picture
Titanic
“Sunny Came Home”
Big Tobacco trial
Death of
Princess Diana
Best Song
Federal debt: $5498.9 billion
Median Income: $37,005
Unemployment: 5.4%
First-class stamp: $0.32
1997
Andy Grove
Hong Kong returns
to Chinese rule
1997
1997
Warwick
1997 Monograph
The Canadian
First-Year Experience
1997 Teleconference
A Meeting of the Minds:
Two Perspectives on
New Student Seminars and Beyond
Video Resources 1997
1997 National Survey
Of First-Year Seminar
Programming
Listserv Established
Senior Year Experience
sye-list@vm.sc.edu
Harry Potter
and the
Sorcerer's Stone
Jesse Ventura
elected
Best Picture
Shakespeare in Love
Kosovo
The Euro
“My Heart Will Go On”
House impeaches
President Clinton
Best Song
Beanie Babies
Federal debt: $5750.4 billion
Unemployment: 4.9%
First-class stamp: $0.32
1998
Bill Clinton
and Ken Starr
Dr. Laura
Dublin
1998
1998 Monographs
Developmental
Education
Exploring the
Evidence
Volume II
1998 Teleconferences Series
American Beauty
Lance
Armstrong
Best Picture
“Smooth”
American
Women’s
World Cup
Soccer
War erupts in Kosovo
Columbine
Best Song
Y2K Bug
Unemployment: 4.5%
First-class stamp: $0.33
Microsoft
Monopoly
Trial
1999
Impeachment
Trial
Jeffrey Bezos
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Plane crashes
1999
1999
1999 Monographs
Learning Communities
Student Athletes
1999 Monographs
Using National
Newspapers in the
College Classroom
Instructional Training
and Development
1999 Teleconference Series
1999
Listserv Established
Transfer Year Experience
tye-list@vm.sc.edu
1999
Edinburgh
Mapping Human DNA
Election Cliffhanger
Wen Ho Lee
Michael J. Fox
announces he has
Parkinson's
Elián
2000
George W. Bush
Who Wants to Marry
a Multi-Millionaire
Korea: Meeting of North and South
2000
2000
2000
2000
Reading
2000
2000 Monographs
Senior Seminars
Sophomores
5th National Survey on
Freshman Seminar
Programs
2000
2000 Teleconferences Series
Video Resources 2000
Career Decisions For College Students:
Pathways To Success
First National Survey
Of Senior Seminars/
Capstone Courses
2000
Anniversary
2001
2001 Teleconferences Series
Teleconferences 2001
Enrollment Management
First-Year Seminars
Commuter Students
The Fourteenth International
Conference
on The First-Year Experience
in conjunction with the
Fifth Pacific Rim First Year in Higher
Education Conference
The University of South Carolina
Mary Stuart Hunter
Director
John N. Gardner
Senior Fellow and
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
University of South Carolina
Jean Henscheid
Associate Director
Dan Berman
Director, University 101
University of South Carolina
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