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	My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned By Becoming a Student by Rebekah Nathan This 186-page paperback describes the experiences of a cultural anthropology professor who enrolled as a non-traditional student in the college where she taught, lived in a dorm for a year, and chronicled her life as a freshman. Using her skills as an anthropologist, she combines participation-observation with interview excerpts to create a wide-ranging sense of what it is like for international students, racial and ethnic minority students, traditional, and non-traditional students to be in college these days. Organized into the following seven chapters and an afterword, the book offers an insightful view into the "middle" world that is the college experience. Rebekah Nathan is actually Dr. Cathy Small of Northern Arizona University. Chapter Titles · Welcome to "AnyU" · Life in the Dorms · Community and Diversity · As Others See Us · Academically Speaking · The Art of College Management · Lessons from My Year as a Freshman
	Last updated June 26, 2007 by W.W. Austin	Questions? Contact warren@edinboro.edu