{"id":1881,"date":"2017-07-26T09:14:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T09:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/fsem\/?page_id=121"},"modified":"2026-03-21T03:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:57:11","slug":"seminars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/about\/seminars\/","title":{"rendered":"First Year Seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-2.png 800w, https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-2-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-2-768x240.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<blockquote><p>The First Year Seminar Program is\u00a0the signature academic program\u00a0of Stetson\u2019s first-year student success initiative. FSEMs underpin our entire undergraduate experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>FSEMs have become such\u00a0a vital academic component of higher education institutions nationwide that by 2012, over 800 colleges and universities of varying types and sizes offered\u00a0FSEMs. The seminars\u2019\u00a0popularity is rooted in burgeoning research pointing to statistically significant and substantial positive effects on a student\u2019s successful transition to college, academic performance while in college, and the likelihood of persistence into the second year. These outcomes are consistent with national studies that report\u00a0first-year GPA\u00a0as\u00a0the number one predictor\u00a0of student retention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/other\/first-year-seminar\/fysemsFall2018.php\">Current Seminars<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/other\/first-year-seminar\/fsemarchives.php\">Past Seminars<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/fsem\/fsem-history-at-stetson\/\">FSEM History at Stetson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Year Seminar Program is\u00a0the signature academic program\u00a0of Stetson\u2019s first-year student success initiative. FSEMs underpin our entire undergraduate experience. FSEMs have become such\u00a0a vital academic component of higher education institutions nationwide that by 2012, over 800 colleges and universities of varying types and sizes offered\u00a0FSEMs. The seminars\u2019\u00a0popularity is rooted in burgeoning research pointing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1881","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1881\/revisions\/2129"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}