As a participant in this survey you can enter your name into a draw for one of two copies of the new 2008 book published by the Council of 3M National Teaching Fellows and the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education entitled: Silences in Teaching and Learning. You will be asked to provide your contact information at the end of the survey. Thank you for your time and valuable feedback. We are interested in understanding the level of academic preparedness of college or university students entering their first year and/or those taking Introductory courses. All results of this survey will be held in confidence as will the names of any institutions and individual participants. The use of the information in this survey is for the upcoming STLHE conference presentation: "I wish I had known that. Preparing students for university before they get to campus" and will form the basis for the discussion during the session. For the purposes of this survey, the definition of academic preparedness is: a student's ability to manage first year or introductory course curriculum without remedial assistance on concepts they should understand or skills which are expected of them.