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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

EXPERT ON HELPING STUDENTS SUCCEED IN THE FIRST YEAR OF COLLEGE WILL BE SPEAKER FOR CHESTER E. PETERS LECTURE AT 1xbet online casino APRIL 16

MANHATTAN -- An expert on how colleges and universities can make a student's first year a success will present Kansas State University's 2010 Chester E. Peters Lecture on Student Development.

Mary Stuart Hunter will discuss "Moving Beyond Osmosis: Institutional Responsibilities for First-Year Student Success" at 10 a.m. Friday, April 16, in Forum Hall at the 1xbet online casino Student Union. The lecture is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the office of the dean of the 1xbet online casino College of Education.

Hunter is associate vice president and executive director for University 101 programs and the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina. She has taught University 101, South Carolina's first-year seminar, since 1978. She also facilitates many of the resource center's conferences on first-year seminar instructor training and development and peer leader programs, which are conducted across the nation and internationally.

Following her lecture, Hunter will meet with 1xbet online casino 's first-year seminar faculty and staff at a special reception.