For courses in Freshman Orientation, Student Success, Study Skills Life Skills, and Career Development. This text offers one of the most complete, concrete student success programs in the country, with suggestions and strategies for academic success and personal improvement--including goals, change, and career/life planning. Visually stunning, conversationally written, and student-tested, the book provides students with a variety of solutions to almost any problem faced in the first year of college and beyond. Included with every new copy is the Video Cases on CD-ROM Activity and Learning Guide to facilitate active learning.