Regional campuses serve a vital role in today's higher education landscape, extending access to college education for underserved locations and populations. The University of Mississippi's university system has five regional campuses. The students at a regional campus, like their traditional main campus counterparts, aspire to attain bachelor's or…

Due to their transient nature of having short attention spans, causing disruptions in the classroom, and academic shortcomings, students diagnosed with ADHD need nonpharmacological methods to help them achieve academic success. The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to describe the lived experiences of college undergraduate…

The transition to college can be challenging for first-year students, impacting their academic performance and overall well-being. One strategy employed to ease the college transition is the first-year seminar, designed to introduce students to academic expectations, build social connections, develop self-management skills, and support students'…

Through participation in co-curricular leadership roles, such as resident assistants, orientation leaders, and student government, students engage in integrative learning, an active process by which students connect, apply, and synthesize their learning (Barber, 2020b). One example of how students integrate their learning is through participation…

This study explored students' time use and focused on the relationship between student employment and other activities. It considered time use from two competing ideas of zero-sum and resource expansion. A zero-sum perspective assumes an inherent trade-off between time spent working and available time for other activities. A resource expansion…

This mixed methods study explored co-curricular student leadership development programs that included intercultural learning and were designed for international students studying at higher education institutions in the United States. The study aimed to better understand: (a) common program characteristics; (b) program administrator perceptions;…

This qualitative study explored strategies to improve Black women's experiences at predominately white colleges and universities. The study used intersectionality as the lens and a narrative inquiry approach. The study sought to determine the usefulness of extracurricular activities and how they aid Black women's retention and graduation. This…

Student activities are an important part of the student life experience on college campuses (Barham & Winston, 2006). Student activities professionals are key to helping students become, and stay, engaged during their educational experience (Komives, 2019). While student activities staff provide care and support, the staff themselves are not…

The purpose of this correlational, causal-comparative quantitative research was to examine the degree to which the level of perceived racism, housing status, and extracurricular involvement predicted a sense of belonging (SB), at a predominantly White institution (PWI). In universities, corporations, and organizations, cultivating a sense of…

Kuh's theory of student engagement was used in this quantitative study to examine the relationship between student participation in co-curricular activities and student engagement among women in engineering programs in community colleges. Self-reported ex post facto student data from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) for…

First-generation college students are a prominent higher education student population and are well-represented at the community college. Unfortunately, many first-generation community college students do not persist for degree completion. These students face many academic and social challenges that impact their persistence. However, research has…

Colleges may not be prepared to support veteran students transitioning from the military to higher education, resulting in more significant attrition levels for veteran students struggling to adapt to their new surroundings. This qualitative phenomenological study examined the experiences of post-9/11 veteran students as they transitioned from the…

This qualitative interview study examines challenges college students may experience in extracurricular dialogues on contested sociopolitical issues. It also discusses approaches that students claim support them through the challenges of contested issues dialogues. This study found that college students encountered challenges including difficulty…

This is a quantitative correlational study of the relationship between adolescent extracurricular activities and college persistence within a theoretical framework of Bandura's self-efficacy theory. The study utilized a sample of 2,300 participants from a 27-year national longitudinal study of adolescent health. The study found a significant…

One of the stated goals of higher education is to develop leaders who will make a positive impact on society. This goal is accomplished in various ways, including involving students in co-curricular activities. This study explores one such activity, involvement in a student philanthropic organization, and its relationship to student leadership…