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The Business of Choosing a College: How to Know If You’ll Get Your Money’s Worth - 2019.09.03 - Observer
“Young is not interested in a “silver bullet” approach, one in which a singular magical program solves everything. “It’s not a single program or initiative, but rather an intentional combination of academic and co-curricular approach,” Young explained.”
When college orientation is a family affair - 2017.07.14 - Newsday
“Over my career in higher education, since 2003, I’ve seen an increased attention to this on campuses,” said Dallin Young, assistant director for research at the National Resource Center. “Early on, the attitude was, let them be adults already. There’s been a shift in the mentality.”
A Third of Your Freshmen Disappear. How Can You Keep Them? - 2018.06.03 - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“Today the percentage stands at 74 percent, a decline that Young attributes to a drop in the number of colleges offering "extended orientation" seminars, in which students are taught study skills and how to navigate the campus. "Academic seminars," which are centered on a subject or theme, are actually rising in number. Roughly three-quarters of colleges offer pre-term orientation.”
All the Freshmen in Paris - 2013.10.10 - Inside Higher Ed
“First-year trips abroad may be growing more common in general, said Dallin George Young, an assistant director at the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition and University 101 Programs at the University of South Carolina.”
Reading lists a window into universities - 2017.08.31 - The Detroit News
“The books communicate that the institutions are an engaged and intellectual enterprise, and this is an opportunity to come together and talk about books,” said Dallin Young, assistant director for research, grants and assessments at the National Resource Center, based at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. “It also signals academic rigor in college.”
Utah 'roommates without guns' law raises concerns - 2007.04.21 - Deseret News
"People who have concealed weapons aren't under any obligation to let us know if they have one. The question is a moot one," said Dallin Young, resident life director at Dixie State College in St. George.