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Florencia Rojo – Teaching Sociology, 2025
Community-based research (CBR) as a form of community-engaged learning (CEL) offers students valuable sociological practice and learning experiences. Although CEL strategies are well documented for enhancing students' sociological imagination, gaps persist in the literature regarding the impact on community partners. This article addresses the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Predominantly White Institutions, Small Colleges, Sociology
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Christopher Slaten; Wes Bonifay; Bini Sebastian; Michael Steven Williams – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
The current study assesses the utility of the University Belongingness Questionnaire (UBQ) in community college settings. Utilizing item response theory (IRT), the UBQ was evaluated with a sample of 1155 community college students at one large community college on the west coast. In addition, other constructs were measured to ascertain the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Sense of Belonging, Questionnaires, Evaluation Research
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Daniel Lee Reinholz – Intercultural Education, 2025
Promoting equitable classrooms is a goal of postsecondary mathematics education, but there is still limited research on how faculty learn to teach more equitably. Despite the variety of techniques developed in primary and secondary education, there has been less use in higher education. This manuscript focuses on the 'assigning competence'…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Mathematics Education, College Mathematics
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Margaret W. Sallee; Danielle V. Lewis; Kristina Collier – Journal of Higher Education, 2025
Despite their sizable presence on U.S. college campuses, few institutions have comprehensive programs to support student-mothers' success. However, research suggests that access to even one supportive or encouraging institutional agent can make a difference in a student's college trajectory. Based on interviews with 57 student-mothers at 2- and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Undergraduate Students, Mothers, Nontraditional Students
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Christopher Donoghue; Richard S. Reinschmidt; Lauren Chow – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2025
Sense of belonging is a fundamental human need that can raise the chances of self-actualization and academic success in college. Latine and other historically underrepresented student groups may experience greater challenges in this area than White students due to a greater propensity for feelings of belonging uncertainty, perceptions of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Sense of Community
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Cristiano Morini; Edmundo Inacio Junior; Anibal Tavares de Azevedo; Francisco Elíseo Fernandes Sanches; Eduardo Avancci Dionisio – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: Higher education institutions (HEIs) are crucial in sustainable development. To this end, they must infuse sustainability into all their endeavors. This study aims to delve into the unique vertically integrated project (VIP), a project-based learning approach and its impact on students' skills and the surrounding community.…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Colleges, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Mary Bautista; Amy Flanagan Johnson – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
An interdisciplinary Pop-Up Learning Community (PLC) allowed students from various disciplines with different levels of content knowledge to discuss their perspectives on and beliefs about climate change. The impact of this event on students' climate change beliefs was gauged by a survey from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. This…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Interdisciplinary Approach, Communities of Practice, Climate
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Brittany Aronson; Dominique M. Brown; Jazmin Tangi – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2025
This article considers what critical community building might look like among colleagues at a university representing one faculty member, one doctoral candidate, and one undergraduate student. Using critical autoethnography-self-study, we analyze our journal reflections, presentations, teaching, and dialogues to better understand our approaches…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, College Faculty, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students
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Jordan Jurinsky; Jessica M. Perkins; Emily N. Satinsky; Andrew J. Finch – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: Little is known about the extent of student awareness about collegiate recovery communities (CRCs) and of peers in recovery. Participants: A convenience sample of 237 undergraduate students from a diverse major at a private university participated in an anonymous online survey in Fall 2019. Methods: Participants reported whether they…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Undergraduate Students, Addictive Behavior, Substance Abuse
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Mia B. Russell; Lorna Saboe-Wounded Head; Kelli Wolfe-Enslow; Jacqueline Holland; Nicholas Zimmerman – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
Millions of students experienced increased levels of stress and worries about their college pursuits as they were forced to abrupt pivot to online and hybrid learning due to the global pandemic. Drawing from the theory of human needs, this study examined the extent to which COVID-19 influenced the relationship between financial well-being, needs…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Needs
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Scott Feinstein; Toby N. T. Nelson; Cristina Poleacovschi; Kalynda Smith – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2025
Minoritized students in civil engineering frequently experience subtle negative attitudes or biases based on their race and gender. These subtle attitudes and biases are known as microaggressions and are reasons for low self-efficacy and retention in civil engineering. Previous studies demonstrated the prevalence of microaggressions in engineering…
Descriptors: Aggression, Engineering Education, Minority Group Students, Civil Engineering
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Patricia L. Maddox; Jennifer L. Trost – Teaching Sociology, 2025
As a best practice, community-engaged courses should benefit students, community, and faculty through centering the needs and goals of each entity. Ensuring reciprocity and centering sustainable authentic relationships requires great care, intention, time, and a clear strategy to execute. We describe how our intercollegiate and co-instructed…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Models, Peer Relationship, Social Change
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Michela Montesi; Belén Álvarez Bornstein; Pablo Parra Valero – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2025
This research explores the acquisition of soft skills in a service learning project in the Complutense University of Madrid's library and information science undergraduate program. Reaching its fifth edition in 2021-22, the project aimed to integrate older persons into the social fabric of a residential enclave of Madrid known as "Parque…
Descriptors: Library Education, Information Science Education, Soft Skills, Skill Development
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Nathan A. Quarderer; Leah Wasser; Anne U. Gold; Patricia Montaño; Lauren Herwehe; Katherine Halama; Emily Biggane; Jessica Logan; David Parr; Sylvia Brady; James Sanovia; Charles Jason Tinant; Elisha Yellow Thunder; Justina White Eyes; LaShell Poor Bear/Bagola; Madison Phelps; Trey Orion Phelps; Brett Alberts; Michela Johnson; Nathan Korinek; William Travis; Naomi Jacquez; Kaiea Rohlehr; Emily Ward; Elsa Culler; R. Chelsea Nagy; Jennifer Balch – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2025
Today's data-driven world requires earth and environmental scientists to have skills at the intersection of domain and data science. These skills are imperative to harness information contained in a growing volume of complex data to solve the world's most pressing environmental challenges. Despite the importance of these skills, Earth and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Earth Science, Environmental Education, Science Education