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Yolanda M. Anglin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Academic advising support services play a significant role in a student's college experience from enrollment to graduation. The various services they offer can be instrumental in student persistence and graduation rates. However, the graduation rates of African American students continue to lag behind other ethnicities at a local university in…
Descriptors: African American Students, Academic Advising, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Taylor Danielle Akason; Cindy Miller-Perrin – Journal of College and Character, 2024
This study examined how faith community interaction and faith community harmony relate to both state and trait body dissatisfaction, loneliness, and sociocultural pressures on appearance among college undergraduates. Participants (N = 1519) were college undergraduate students attending a private university in California. Participants included 546…
Descriptors: College Students, Religious Factors, Psychological Patterns, Social Isolation
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Seth J. Schwartz; Beyhan Ertanir; Audrey Harkness; Byron L. Zamboanga; Melissa L. Bessaha; John B. Bartholomew; Alan Meca; Minas Michikyan; Maria Duque; Pablo Montero-Zamora; Claudia López-Madrigal; Linda G. Castillo; Miguel Ángel Cano; Kaveri Subrahmanyam; Brandy Piña-Watson; Pamela Regan; Lindsay S. Ham; Marissa K. Hanson; Charles R. Martinez Jr. – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: We examined the role of personal identity vis-à-vis COVID-related outcomes among college students from seven U.S. campuses during spring/summer 2021. Participants: The present sample consisted of 1,688 students (74.5% female, age range 18-29). The sample was ethnically diverse, and 57.3% were first-generation students. Procedures:…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Students, Self Concept
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Chen, Cindy; Landa, Sabrina; Padilla, Aivanna; Yur-Austin, Jasmine – Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, 2021
Purpose: In response to coronavirus disease 2019, California State University Long Beach (CSULB) announced mandatory online course conversions on March 12, 2020. The College of Business designed a Student Online Learning Experience Survey to explore learners' experience, needs, expectations and challenges in the online learning environment.…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Experience, Student Needs, Electronic Learning
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Rees, Gordon L.; Pressler, Yamina; Bates, Guy W.; Connolly, Cristina A.; Sommerlad-Rogers, Deirdre; De Lay, Ann Marie; Gill, Samantha J.; Papathakis, Peggy C.; Kronewitter, Robyn M.; Lammert, Amy M. – Natural Sciences Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020 led to university closures and little time to convert all face-to-face courses online. We investigated how students in the College of Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA perceived emergency remote teaching during the early stages of the pandemic. The college maintains…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, College Students, Agricultural Education, Experiential Learning
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Yunfei Hou; Amir Ghasemkhani; Hani Aldirawi; Miranda McIntyre; Montgomery Van Wart – American Journal of Distance Education, 2024
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Computer Science and STEM-related fields were among the most resistant to online courses. This is because of a perception of the need for more hands-on instruction with labs, clinicals, field studies, etc. Additionally, many STEM students had perceptions based on limited experience of an online STEM course.…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Electronic Learning
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Gopalan, Neena; Goodman, Suki; Hardy, Anneli; Jacobs, Carla – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
While there has been a proliferation of interest and research into work-family studies we know little about how employees who study while working manage their multiple and sometimes conflicting roles. This research focuses on non-traditional students (NTS), whose representation in the general student population has increased, and explores how they…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Individual Characteristics, Student Satisfaction, Student Responsibility
Michelle Kechichian – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Purpose. The purpose of this quantitative correlational research study was to examine whether a relationship exists between academic advisors' leadership style as servant leaders and student satisfaction with academic advising at a 4-year private nonprofit university in Southern California. Additionally, gender, race, and first-generation college…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Faculty Advisers, Leadership Styles, Student Satisfaction
Cruz, Luciano N. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The research question of this study was: How do the lack of cultural capital and the demand for academic credentials dictate educational opportunities and the enrollment of vulnerable student populations at for-profit schools? This study examined the enrollment of students, especially those of lower-socioeconomic status in for-profit schools. The…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Postsecondary Education, Cultural Capital, Credentials
Bukhin, Cassandra E. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework on students' perspectives of an online Kinesiology course. A Health-Related Fitness and Wellness course, an introductory Kinesiology class in the California State University, was converted to an online format using the CoI framework. Results showed…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Kinesiology, Communities of Practice, Inquiry
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Kim, Young K.; Rennick, Liz A.; Iorio, Michael F. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2022
Using a state-wide college student dataset, this study examined how the type of student-faculty interaction uniquely conditions the predictors of student-faculty interaction (student characteristics affecting the level of student-faculty interaction, in this case) as well as the effects of such interaction on select college outcomes. The results…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, College Students, College Faculty
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Xu, Pei; Lone, Todd – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2020
This study develops a three-stage adoption framework to measure the impact of selected factors on a student's learning experience and evaluates the effectiveness of service learning in each learning stage. The agribusiness service-learning course utilized in this study matches groups of students with non-profit agribusiness entities to identify…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Service Learning, Agribusiness, Business Administration Education
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Oh, Kyong Eun; Colón-Aguirre, Mónica – College & Research Libraries, 2019
Google Scholar and academic library discovery systems are both popular resources among academic users for finding scholarly information. By conducting an online survey with 975 users from more than 20 public research universities across the United States, this study comparatively investigates how and why academic users use these two resources.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Search Engines, Information Retrieval, Public Colleges
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Moschetti, Roxanne V.; Plunkett, Scott W.; Efrat, Rafi; Yomtov, Dani – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2018
An evaluation was conducted on a university peer mentoring program for Latina/o college students (mostly freshmen and first generation) at a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Data were collected across 3 years from 458 Latina/o students with mentors and 86 Latina/o students without mentors (Year 3). Quantitative and qualitative data indicated mentees…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Mentors, Hispanic American Students, College Students
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Beer, Francisca; Hassija, Christina M.; Covarrubias-Paniagua, Arturo; Thompson, Jeffrey M. – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2019
The authors discuss their study of the Peer Research Consultant (PRC) program at California State University, San Bernardino. During the 2016-2017 academic year, 13 courses, with 853 students enrolled, participated in the PRC program. Program participants completed preand post-measures assessing demographic information, perceptions of skill level,…
Descriptors: Consultants, Peer Groups, College Students, Program Effectiveness
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