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Salazar, Stacey McKenna – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2013
This article describes a study of teaching and learning in the first--or "foundation"--year of art college. As a multiple embedded case study informed by systems theory, the following cases are described: art colleges, foundation programs, professors, and students. The data were collected through surveys, interviews, classroom…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Colleges, Case Studies, Systems Approach
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Galarneau, Joy; O'Neill, Shannon – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2015
This article presents bystander intervention education as a best-practice approach to sexual violence prevention in college settings. It draws out a connection between mission-specific resources that can be used to advance the prevention agenda, while examining how bystander intervention education can deepen community engagement in collegiate…
Descriptors: Violence, Sexual Abuse, Catholic Schools, Colleges
Lee, Danielle Moss – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
This fall--after the initial buzz that comes with going to college, meeting new friends, quad parties, and having to get to class without the watchful eyes of parents--some members of the Class of 2015 will begin to a slow descent down a rocky road of social and academic struggle. College can be a transformational experience. But an opportunity…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Public Schools, Public Education
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Volkwein, J. Fredericks – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
Despite their apparent popularity among those seeking degrees and credentials, today's colleges and universities face several interrelated public criticisms and concerns. When these competing concerns about student success, productivity, cost, and educational effectiveness all collide at the campus level, they create an array of campus tensions…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Criticism, Public Relations, Stakeholders
Farrell, Elizabeth F. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2006
Administrators at Union College, worried that the Greek system that dominated the campus was harming the college's students and its reputation, attempted to redefine campus social life in 2000. However, instead of dissolving fraternities, the Union decided to make the Greek system part of a social experiment, working with members of fraternities…
Descriptors: Social Life, Sororities, Fraternities, Colleges
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Cheng, David X. – NASPA Journal, 2004
This study examines different aspects of students' college life to articulate their perceptions of campus community. The findings indicate that students' sense of community is closely associated with their feelings of being cared about, treated in a caring way, valued as an individual and accepted as a part of community and the quality social life…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Community, College Environment