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Direct linkKilwein, Tess M.; Wedell, Emma; Herchenroeder, Luke; Bravo, Adrian J.; Looby, Alison – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: This study aimed to qualitatively examine how perceptions of cannabis differ among college students in an effort to better understand the changing landscape of cannabis on college campuses. Participants: Forty-six predominantly male (69.9%; M[subscript age] = 23.15, SD = 4.11) college students attending a border state university (i.e.,…
Descriptors: College Students, Marijuana, Student Attitudes, Drug Abuse
Download full textNguyen Thi Ngoc Ha; Cuong Huu Hoang; Elizabeth Knight; Peter Hurley – Journal of International Students, 2023
This systematic literature review synthesizes empirical evidence to comprehensively examine factors driving international students' choice of Australia as their preferred destination for tertiary education. Deductive analysis of findings from the 46 selected studies, framed within the push and pull framework, identified 27 factors that revealed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, College Students, College Choice
Shannon Mason; Melissa Bond; Susan F. Ledger – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2024
Purpose: In light of a largely negative discourse, this study aims to identify the various ways in which PhD mums have been supported in a range of contexts to develop a comprehensive typology of positive support, as well as to identify patterns that transcend institutional, national and disciplinary borders. Design/methodology/approach: The study…
Descriptors: Mothers, Doctoral Students, Social Support Groups, Student Experience
Xiaoqiao Zhang; Ga Tin Finneas Wong; Cindy H. Liu; Hyeouk Hahm; Justin A. Chen – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To identify stressors affecting international students' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants: Twenty-two international students from 10 countries and 17 US institutions participated. Methods: Participants were recruited from a larger study examining the wellbeing of young adults during the pandemic. Results: Four…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Stress Variables, Mental Health, COVID-19
Haoyi Wei – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation adds to the economic study of gun and marijuana laws. Chapter 1 studies the impact of stand your ground laws (SYGs) on traffic fatalities. Chapter 2 investigates the effects of campus concealed carry laws (CCCs) on higher education outcomes. Chapter 3 looks at the impact of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) on youth crimes. The first…
Descriptors: Marijuana, Weapons, Laws, Traffic Safety
Cin, F. Melis; Dogan, Necmettin – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2021
This paper aims to explore how refugee students construct pathways of access to higher education by drawing on interviews with 15 Syrian university students studying at different universities across Turkey. The research is located within a capabilities-based human development paradigm from which it outlines the factors that enable students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Access to Education, Higher Education
Andrea R. Thyrring – ProQuest LLC, 2021
We will not end gender-based violence by responding to it. Experts and national organizations agree that effective primary prevention programs are essential to stopping harmful behaviors before they start (DeGue et al, 2014; American College Health Association, 2016; American College Health Association, 2018; Townsend, 2017; Schneider &…
Descriptors: Violence, Gender Discrimination, Gender Bias, College Environment
Hayes, Brittany E.; Powers, Ráchael A.; O'Neal, Eryn Nicole – Journal of School Violence, 2021
The current study aims to examine and compare predictors of attitudinal support for campus carry and concealed carrying behaviors on a campus where faculty, staff, and students can legally carry a weapon. This explores the relationship between attitudes and behaviors as it relates to concealed weapons on campuses. Whereas attitudinal correlates…
Descriptors: Weapons, College Students, Behavior, Correlation
Enriquez, Laura E.; Chavarria, Karina; Rodriguez, Victoria E.; Ayón, Cecilia; Ellis, Basia D.; Hagan, Melissa J.; Jefferies, Julián; Lara, Jannet; Morales Hernandez, Martha; Murillo, Enrique G.; Nájera, Jennifer R.; Offidani-Bertrand, Carly; Oropeza Fujimoto, Maria; Ro, Annie; Rosales, William E; Sarabia, Heidy; Soltero López, Ana K.; Valadez, Mercedes; Valdez, Zulema; Velarde Pierce, Sharon – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2021
Prior research has established that undocumented immigrant experiences are dynamic, reflecting the complex web of immigration-related policies that create legal vulnerability. As such, undocumented college students' experiences must be situated in their current policy context. Drawing on descriptive analyses of a survey of 1,277 undocumented…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, College Students, At Risk Students, Student Experience
Serrano, Uriel; Vazquez, Andrea Del Carmen; Meneses Samperio, Raul; Mattheis, Allison – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2018
An increase in public expressions of xenophobic and racist nativist sentiments followed the election of the 45th president of the United States, and higher education institutions across the country issued statements proclaiming their support for students impacted by changes to federal immigration policy. Guided by García's (2017) organizational…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Undocumented Immigrants, Social Bias, Racial Bias
Krishan, Anjali; Rastogi, Apurva; Singh, Suneeta – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2016
In this paper, we document how LGBTQIA students on college campuses in Delhi, India, are handling discrimination in the aftermath of the Supreme Court of India's ruling on December 11, 2013, that recriminalized homosexuality in India. Applying a resilience research approach, our study revealed that LGBTQIA students are mired in a context of…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, College Students, Social Discrimination, Public Policy
Smith, Katherine – Higher Education Quarterly, 2012
Employing the interdisciplinary field of health inequalities as a case study, this paper draws on interviews to explore subjective accounts of academic identities. It finds widespread acceptance that academia is a market place in which research-active careers require academics to function as entrepreneurs marketing ideas to funders. Beyond this,…
Descriptors: Audiences, Educational Change, College Faculty, College Environment
Williams, Gary L. – Multicultural Education, 2012
The legacy of slavery and racism in America and the history of what John C. Calhoun and other Southern leaders of the 1800s called "our peculiar institution" has not gone unnoticed. Neither has the psychological damage that remains as baggage carried by the descendents of both the slave and the slave owner (Berry & Blassingame, 1982;…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, United States History, Slavery, African Americans
Universities UK, 2016
This report summarises the evidence considered by the Universities UK (UUK) Taskforce to examine violence against women, harassment and hate crime affecting university students, and makes a series of recommendations for universities and UUK. These recommendations cover both prevention activities and how universities can respond to these issues…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Females, Sexual Harassment
Laffite, Nicolas Baya – International Social Science Journal, 2008
This article addresses the role of universities in the sustainable management of metropolitan areas, drawing on the outputs from a workshop that brought together academics, professionals and politicians responsible for the urban environmental management of the metropolitan areas of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Urban…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ecology, Workshops, Metropolitan Areas
