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The Interplay of Family Income, Campus Residency, and Student Retention (What Practitioners Should Know about Cultural Mismatch)
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Schudde, Lauren – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2016
Students from low-income families consistently trail behind their peers in retention and degree attainment. Research on college student experiences suggests that low-income students experience "cultural mismatch" at college--they feel that their backgrounds are at odds with the middle-class values dominant on campus (Armstrong &…
Descriptors: Family Income, School Holding Power, On Campus Students, College Housing
Colleges Design New Housing to Engage and Retain Students
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Peterkin, Caitlin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
With goals of fostering an intellectual atmosphere, building relationships, and increasing students' involvement on campus--and, ultimately, their rates of retention--universities around the country, including Elon, Michigan State, and Southern Methodist, are looking to residence life. House systems, residential neighborhoods, and living-learning…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Housing, Academic Persistence, Intellectual Development
Student Perceptions of Campus Safety: How the University Community May Make a Difference
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Zuckerman, Derek John – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of religion in creating a campus community to address violence on the college campus. Given the amount of cases and increasing magnitude of the ferocity of perpetrators of violence the study of safety was an important area of research. This study was able to give a voice to students who shared…
Descriptors: Role of Religion, Catholic Schools, Student Attitudes, Safety
The Relationship of Residence to Retention of Black and White Undergraduate Students at a Predominantly White University.
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Galicki, Sandra J.; McEwen, Marylu K. – Journal of College Student Development, 1989
Explored relationship of students' college living environment during their first year to retention and whether or not positive correlation of residence hall living to persistence extends to Black students at predominantly White university. Results indicated that race, sex, place of residence, and aptitude were related significantly to persistence…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Black Students, College Environment, College Students
Students' Sense of Community in Residence Halls, Social Integration, and First-Year Persistence.
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Berger, Joseph B. – Journal of College Student Development, 1997
Used concepts from community psychology literature to elaborate a revised version of Tinto's model of individual student departure. Employed a longitudinal analysis of 718 college students. Results indicate that students' sense of community in their residence halls was a source of social integration and a precursor to student departure decisions.…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Environment, College Freshmen, Dormitories
Freshman Attrition and the Residential Context.
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Terenzini, Patrick T.; Pascarella, Ernest T. – 1982
The influence on freshman student attrition of the group with whom a student lives (i.e., the composition or contextual character of the collegiate residence unit) was investigated. Based on Tinto's (1975) model of college student attrition, a longitudinal study was conducted at a large, independent, residential university in New York State having…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Environment, College Freshmen, College Housing