The challenges of college just got a lot easier with The First-Year College Experience Handbook.

With over thirty years of combined curricular and co-curricular advising experience, authors t. leon williams and melissa n. jordan lend their expert knowledge to a whole new generation of college students.

With the goal of helping students make the best choices possible for their academic, personal, and professional future, williams and jordan outline four main areas that college freshmen need to nurture.

These include relationships, specifically with other...

Ten years ago, six young men from Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, began asking questions about modern manhood. Many boys grow up without positive male role models. Where will they turn for examples? To athletes, rappers, or pop stars? These men decided to be the examples they had always sought.

With the help of author t. leon williams, who championed Buena Vista's multicultural center at the time, the six students formed a brotherhood known as the Men of Character. They spent hours discussing ideals of manhood: character development, academic achievement, and community...