The First-Year Experience (FYE): Moving Toward a Well-Defined Field of Study in South Africa

Abstract

For too long, South Africa has watched from afar as global FYE scholarship continues to establish and consolidate itself. Now, with the recent array of initiatives to establish the FYE academically in South Africa, including the establishment of the South African National Resource Centre for First-Year Experience and Students in Transition (SANRC) in 2015, the prospects for the FYE as a well-defined field of study appear especially bright. This special edition of the Journal of Student Affairs in Africa chronicles the FYE in South Africa as an aspiring academic community that is poised for future development.