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Jennifer B. Passenti – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Enrollment and retention in higher education can be challenging under normal circumstances, but combined with a global pandemic, institutions will need to look at strategies to help navigate these uncertain times. This dissertation provided the needed research on the processes of decision-making related to enrollment, retention, institutional…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Stigliani, Anthony; Li, Zhi; Durgin, Frank H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Whereas maps primarily represent the 2-dimensional layout of the environment, people are also aware of the 3-dimensional layout of their environment. An experiment conducted on a small college campus tested whether the remembered slants of familiar paths were precisely represented. Three measures of slant (verbal, manual, and pictorial) were…
Descriptors: Maps, Perception, Memory, Familiarity
Jenny, Frederick J. – Association of Small Computer Users in Education (ASCUE), 2005
This paper describes the mobile computing at Grove City College, a small, private, liberal arts institution in Western Pennsylvania. They have entered their second decade of mobile computing for students in the school of about 2200. Each incoming freshman receives a laptop computing and inkjet printer during the fall orientation, all a benefit of…
Descriptors: Computers, College Faculty, Computer Uses in Education, Small Colleges