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Hodes, Jacqueline S. – About Campus, 2022
This article relays the author's experiences and lessons learned after she was selected to serve as the faculty coordinator for first-year student scheduling at her institution. The new assignment to run the first-year scheduling function in the summer was supposed to be a way to do something interesting and engaging in the summer. It turned out…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, School Schedules, College Administration, Administrators
Roberson, Rachel – Communication Center Journal, 2022
Many new students are struggling to succeed in the current college environment. The mental health crisis and the pandemic have only increased this struggle. Communication centers should partner with student orientation in order to increase student retention, alongside familiarizing students with the communication center from the beginning of their…
Descriptors: Trauma Informed Approach, Workshops, College Freshmen, Mental Health
Vanessa Henelle Gilyard – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Whereas many college freshmen succeed during their first year, some struggle with transitioning. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive generic study was to examine the difficulties some high school graduates experience adapting to the college social environment. First-year college students often have feelings of homesickness, isolation,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Experience, Student Adjustment, Social Environment
Singh, Jasvir Kaur Nachatar – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2023
The literature on international students predominantly emanates from the Western perspective and offers rich insights into international students' adaptation experiences. While university services improve these experiences, limited studies have investigated the role of pre-support assistance prior to students' arrival. This paper fills that gap…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, College Students, Student Needs
Nazife Tosun; Kenan Demir – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2024
In this study, the orientation of the first-grade primary school students to school was ensured by creative drama activities. Activities that lasted 21 hours were applied to ensure that the students adapted to the school, their friends, their teachers, school staff, and places in the school. Parents, classroom teacher, 19 students and two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Creativity
Vo Ngoc Hoi – Educational Review, 2024
The first year at university is critical to students' later academic development. The first year, however, is also the time when students are most vulnerable to disengagement and dropout. Therefore, identifying students most at risk of disengagement as well as the classroom environment factors that drive or undermine student classroom engagement…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, School Orientation, Classroom Techniques, Transitional Programs
James W. Thomas; Masha Krsmanovic; Holly A. Foster – Journal of International Students, 2024
Expectations of campus safety and security are inherent in the development of policies internal to the campus environment as well as to national regulations inclusive of Title IX, the Clery Act, and so forth. Yet, there seems to be an ongoing concern that international students may have heightened risk or are less likely to report violations of…
Descriptors: School Safety, Foreign Students, Educational Legislation, Gender Discrimination
Timothy S. O'Connell; Anna H. Lathrop; Kelly A. Pilato – Journal of Experiential Education, 2024
Background: The short-term impacts of outdoor orientation programs (OOPs) have been documented in the literature for close to 40 years. While there is a fair amount of research examining the immediate effects of OOPs, there are relatively few studies exploring long-term impacts. Purpose: This study examined the important longitudinal "lessons…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, School Orientation, Alumni, Social Networks
James Dietrich Pryor – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive research was to explore how students described their experiences within a semester-long, new-student orientation program as contributing to their year-to-year re-enrollment at a community college in Arizona. Two research questions guided the stud. Exhaustive review of prior research indicated the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, School Orientation, First Year Seminars
Antoinette Hargrove Duke – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Freshman orientation programs are essential in facilitating the successful transition of high school students to college. At Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), these programs have become essential for supporting and advising students as they begin their academic journey. However, the extent to which faculty members of freshman…
Descriptors: School Orientation, College Freshmen, Black Colleges, College Faculty
Vanessa P. Dennen; Lauren M. Bagdy; Hilal Ayan Karabatman – Information and Learning Sciences, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore the use and perceptions of social media among university students before and during their transition from high school to higher education. Design/methodology/approach: This exploratory, cross-sectional study uses an online survey of 312 undergraduate students at a large public research university in the USA.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Mass Media Use, Undergraduate Students, Universities
Benjamin Frank Umbarger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to investigate community college student perceptions of academic advising for 12 first-time first-generation (FTFG) General Studies students attending a rural southeastern community college. The phenomenological research approach was utilized to better understand participant experiences by…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Attitudes, First Generation College Students, Academic Advising
Hernandez, Ruzanna – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2021
Technology has become a way of life since March 2020 and the statewide shutdowns after the COVID-19 pandemic. People who had gotten by without ever having to use the internet, much less turn on a computer, had to learn quickly to change and adapt. The administrative team of Fontana Adult School realized the need to help students with basic digital…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Workshops, Program Development, Adult Students
Emily Anne Bakes Raymer – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This basic qualitative study investigated adult learners aged 35 and older and their experiences with situational, dispositional, and institutional barriers while enrolled in a Midwestern community college. Although numerous studies have examined adult learners in higher education, the purpose of this study was to investigate barriers adult…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Barriers, Nontraditional Students, Student Attitudes
Nolan, Megan T.; Capitano, Johnna; Mishra, Vipanchi – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2023
To shed light on how first-year (FY) experiences affect student well-being, the current study used Saks and Gruman's (2018) socialization resources theory to examine the mediating effect of student course engagement on the relationship between FY onboarding usefulness perceptions and changes in student satisfaction and depression. Additionally,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, School Orientation, Student Attitudes, Well Being