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Brett Ashmun – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Through a phenomenological approach, this study aims to identify the developmental experiences of transfer students as they moved in, through, and out of a university. The research techniques used in this study include focus groups and semi-structured interviews. Findings are derived from the narratives and experiences of seven transfer students…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Student Experience, Self Actualization, Access to Education
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Montero-Hernandez, Virginia; Drouin, Steven – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
This study explores the narratives of first-generation, Latinx graduate students whose parents emigrated from Mexico. We aimed to understand the life trajectories of six participants, particularly the ways in which they made sense of graduate education (MA and EdD) as part of their personal journeys, identity and practice as educators. Focus…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students, Adult Students, Graduate Students
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Mireles-Rios, Rebeca; Rios, Victor M.; Auldridge-Reveles, Trevor; Monroy, Marilyn; Castro, Isaac – Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research, 2020
In this study, we analyze the effects of Project GRIT (Generating Resiliency and Inspiring Transformation), a six-week intervention program that worked with a group of high school "pushouts," students who were encouraged to leave school, in a school district in southern California. We interviewed thirty-nine former high school students…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Resilience (Psychology), Intervention, Dropout Programs
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Colby, Anne; Malin, Heather; Morton, Emily – Journal of College and Character, 2022
Public discourse often frames the value of undergraduate education in financial terms--credentialing and increased earning power. Students must prepare to be self-supporting, but are financial prospects their only important goals? We asked 1,500 students from 11 U.S. colleges to write about their goals, the reasons their goals were important, and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Outcomes of Education, Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation
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Saunders, Marisa; Martínez, Lorea; Flook, Lisa; Hernández, Laura E. – Learning Policy Institute, 2021
Social Justice Humanitas Academy (SJ Humanitas)--a public high school located in Southern California's San Fernando Valley--was designed and founded by teachers as a community school in 2011. Their vision, which they actualized with partners through the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Pilot School initiative, was to create a school…
Descriptors: Public Schools, High Schools, Social Justice, Community Schools
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McCreary, Catherine; Miller-Perrin, Cindy – Journal of College and Character, 2019
The relationship between sense of general life purpose, perceived well-being, perceived life purpose barriers, and faculty mentoring guidance were examined among 1,609 college undergraduates. Participants completed an online survey that included the General Life Purpose Scale, the Perceived Wellness Survey, the Life Purpose Barriers Scale, and a…
Descriptors: Mentors, College Faculty, Student Welfare, Student Attitudes
Cooper, Christy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Participation in study abroad programs has more than tripled over the last quarter century. As more college students opt to study cross culturally, understanding this impact on student development is relevant. Disorientation through culture shock is a recognized common experience in study abroad programs; however, limited research is available on…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Undergraduate Students, Study Abroad, Attitude Change
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Jaeger, Elizabeth L. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2016
This article describes the ways in which a class of 7- and 8-year-old children used writing to communicate. Using Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics as a theoretical frame, I examine what functions these messages served, how functions varied from child to child and how the practice of message-sending evolved over time. Analysis of data…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Grade 3, Interpersonal Communication, Childrens Writing