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Babineau, Kate – Cowen Institute, 2017
The Cowen Institute has a deep commitment to helping students in New Orleans access financial aid for college. They have previously monitored Federal Application for Student Aid (FAFSA) completion rates in New Orleans and Atlanta, provided resources to help FAFSA completion, and currently convene collaboratives of college counselors and youth…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Best Practices, Guides, Nontraditional Students
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Reynolds, Stephanie C. – About Campus, 2005
As an administrator of a program intended to help retain students at Syracuse University, the author found herself in an ironic position this past August. She was presenting a workshop to parents of incoming first-year students about what they could expect from their sons and daughters during the first semester of college. It was ironic because…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Choice, College Admission, College Applicants
Beam, Minna R.; Servaty-Seib, Heather L.; Mathews, Laura – Journal of Loss and Trauma, 2004
To examine the eating-related cognitions and behaviors of college-age women who had experienced parental death, parental divorce, or neither loss condition, we recruited 48 women from science and social science departments at a state university in the Southeast. All participants completed the Mizes Anorectic Cognitions Scale (MAC) and the Bulimia…
Descriptors: Females, Grief, Death, Predictor Variables
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Mattanah, Jonathan F.; Hancock, Gregory R.; Brand, Bethany L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2004
Secure parental attachment and healthy levels of separation-individuation have been consistently linked to greater college student adjustment. The present study proposes that the relation between parental attachment and college adjustment is mediated by healthy separation-individuation. The authors gathered data on maternal and paternal…
Descriptors: College Students, Structural Equation Models, Adolescent Development, Student Adjustment
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Gerdes, Eugenia Proctor – Change, 2004
Recently, a young faculty member commented that e-mail and inexpensive long distance rates were hampering her first-year students' development by making it too easy for them to stay in touch with their parents. Similarly, Judith Shapiro, president of Barnard College, argued in her August 22, 2002, New York Times op-ed piece, "Keeping Parents Off…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Role
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Cheng, Hsiu-Lan; Mallinckrodt, Brent; Wu, Li-Chuan – Counseling Psychologist, 2005
This study surveyed 559 Taiwanese undergraduates regarding anger expression toward parents and depressive symptoms. Five modes of anger expression were explored. All modes of expression were either neutral or positively associated with depressive symptoms. This result is contrary to studies of Western culture suggesting that some modes of anger…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Gender Differences, Interaction