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Felten, Peter; Lambert, Leo M. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020
What single factor makes for an excellent college education? As it turns out, it's pretty simple: human relationships. Decades of research demonstrate the transformative potential and the lasting legacies of a relationship-rich college experience. Critics suggest that to build connections with peers, faculty, staff, and other mentors is expensive…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Excellence in Education, Educational Experience, Peer Relationship
Gordon, Virginia N. – 1984
The way that academic advisers, counselors, faculty, and administrators can help undecided college students set and implement educational and career goals is described. The focus is a developmental advising approach and career development concepts. Origins of indecision, categories of undecided students, and model programs for counseling and…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Aspiration, Career Counseling, College Faculty
Benjamin, Lois, Ed. – 1997
This book includes 30 essays by black women college administrators and faculty. The essays explore the thematic issues of identity, power, and change and examining the impact of racism and sexism in institutions of higher education. Essay authors come from both historically black and predominantly white institutions, public and private…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Administrators, Black Achievement, Black Education
Lang, Marvel, Ed.; Ford, Clinita A., Ed. – 1992
This volume contains selected papers presented at National Black Student Retention Conferences between 1988 and 1991, that examine ideas concerning educational access and retention. The volume and papers are divided into three groupings which address: (1) The Psycho-Social Implications; (2) Model Strategies and Programs; and (3) Impacts of Faculty…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Black Students