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Tracy Lynn Spotts – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The focus of this study is on commuter students in higher education. Commuter students make up a majority of today's college campuses so focusing on their success is key to running a successful institution. Commuter students are not getting involved in campus activities and rarely utilizing campus resources. Commuter students can be described as…
Descriptors: Commuting Students, Learner Engagement, Higher Education, Success
Vannessa Falcón Orta – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this photovoice constructivist grounded theory study is to illustrate the intersections and developmental processes of a transborder identity among Transfronterizx students in postsecondary and higher education institutions at the San Diego-Tijuana border region by examining the psychosocial and cognitive-structural factors that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Photography, Visual Aids
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Fjelkner-Pihl, Annika – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
This article adds to a growing body of literature on how various types of social relations can work synergistically to promote students' academic success. Students' study-related social networks affect academic outcome in higher education. The network literature in education generally explores students' various relations separately, rather than…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Social Networks, Outcomes of Education, Higher Education
Michael G. Patterson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study investigated and analyzed how lateral transfer students who commute to college made sense of their transition and belonging between four-year institutions. Based on student mobility patterns, the lateral transfer population exceeds the number of community college transfers within the landscape of higher education. Colleges need to…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, College Transfer Students, Academic Persistence, Educational Attainment
Benjamin E. Norquist – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This project is a regional case study of higher education institutions, employees, and students in the occupied Palestinian town of Bethlehem. A three-article format, this project employs autoethnography to explore the ways the author's religious community conceived of the holy land; mapping and photo documentation to explore the infrastructures…
Descriptors: Land Settlement, Teaching Methods, Ethnography, Autobiographies