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Gregersen, Andrea Fransiska Møller; Holmegaard, Henriette Tolstrup; Ulriksen, Lars – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
This paper investigates the expectations and culture that first-year students encounter when entering higher education. Induction activities are the first encounter with the new institutional setting and cultural context of the study programme, thus the students' first opportunity to develop ideas about what studying entails and what is expected…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Adjustment, School Culture, Expectation
Packer, Rhiannon; Thomas, Amanda – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2021
Transition has an impact upon the emotional and social development of the individual as well as academically. This paper argues that transition is not a one-off event but is an ongoing process that is repeated over time. In entering further education (FE) the impact of transition in the move from formal schooling to post-compulsory education is no…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Ecology, Systems Approach
Regan, Daniel – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The author questions the high cost of innovation in higher education. He states that much of the literature and other communications convey the sense that improvements in university functioning are more a capital-intensive, than a thought- or labor-intensive enterprise, especially for small public institutions, which educate a substantial…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Reading Programs, College Freshmen
Safali Patel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore how students experience the New Student Orientation Experience (NSOE) and how they perceived it prepared them for their 1st semester of college at a large public university in the United States, Arizona State University (ASU). Institutions of higher education are under pressure to operate more…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Public Colleges, School Orientation, Technology Uses in Education
Christine Burshnick Genthe – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Latinx community college students have lower persistence and completion rates than White and Asian students (Causey et al., 2022). Results of a systematic literature review found the following root causes for these low retention rates: financial barriers, lack of institutional support, educational preparation, psychosocial considerations, and…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Community College Students, Academic Persistence, Barriers
Phelan, Staci – College and University, 2021
In this article, Staci Phelan interviews the following enrollment management team members from Idaho State University: James Martin, Director of Financial; Debbie Green, Director of Scholarships; Nicole Joseph, Director of Admissions; and Brooke Barber, Director of New Student Orientation. The following questions are addressed in this interview:…
Descriptors: Enrollment Management, COVID-19, Pandemics, State Universities
Scott Robert Argo – ProQuest LLC, 2021
As the world changes, institutions of higher education are constantly adopting new business practices in order to ensure future success of their institutions. While enrollment managers are focused on their marketing and recruitment tactics, high school students are being inundated with recruitment materials including invitations to visit campus, a…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Bound Students, Transitional Programs, School Orientation
Jenkins, Davis; Klempin, Serena C.; Lahr, Hana – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2022
At Zane State, guided pathways has served as a framework for bringing multiple changes together to support student success. The college has placed particular emphasis on helping students enter and stay on a program path by connecting them to faculty and advisors called success coaches from the start. A focus on early engagement and onboarding is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Success, Educational Finance
Cooper, Rhys – Student Success, 2021
In 2020, staff at Griffith University, Australia used a best practice and evidence-informed orientation event framework to create the University's first series of fully online, university-wide orientation sessions. The PECS design framework was created to ensure that orientation events at Griffith focused on developing students' sense of belonging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, School Orientation, Sense of Community
Voltz, Eileen – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Preparing students to be successful in their high school begins with their freshmen orientation program. Incoming Charter School of Wilmington (CSW) freshmen struggle to adjust to the demands of the curricula, learn the various technologies, establish new social relationships and navigate around their new school building. The CSW Freshmen…
Descriptors: School Orientation, Student Adjustment, High School Freshmen, Charter Schools
Simmons, Kathy; Felty, Cris – College and University, 2020
This article highlights a two-year institution's efforts to deliver personalized guidance and direction to students, providing essential support resources in hope of facilitating meaningful connections that will lead to increased enrollment, persistence, retention, and three-year graduation rates. The project includes efforts by student services…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, School Orientation, Academic Advising, Two Year Colleges
Westbrooks, Dennis; Guillaume, Nichelle; Jones, Samantha M.; De La Fosse, Kara – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2020
This paper presents the results of participatory action research survey responses from doctoral students regarding strategic onboarding activities. Twelve first-year doctoral students in an inaugural doctoral program cohort responded to Likert Scale and open-ended questions during the first week of a two-week on-campus residency. Resulting student…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Mentors, Doctoral Students, School Orientation
Genareo, Vincent R.; Meyer, Amber; Burgess, Claudia R.; Soto Ramirez, Nina – Learning Communities Research and Practice, 2021
In 2019, [Sunny] (City, State) was awarded a federal College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) grant designed to provide necessary support for the first-year success of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their direct families. This article describes programming of the CAMP grant, focusing on how it functions as a learning community through its…
Descriptors: College Programs, Migrant Programs, Migrants, College Freshmen
Bjork, Christopher; Abrams, Anna; Hutchinson, Lilia S.; Kyrkjebo, Nora I. – Journal of International Students, 2020
While international students face many similar challenges, regardless of their location of study, the unique aspects of learning institutions may lead to different outcomes. Cognizant of this situation, we conducted a study designed to analyze the experiences of 28 students attending an undergraduate liberal arts college. The comments expressed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Sense of Community, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
OConnell, Jake; Frydenberg, Mark – Information Systems Education Journal, 2019
Estimote Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons deployed throughout a university campus enabled the creation of interactive tours for prospective and accepted students at Fall and Spring open house events. By configuring their mobile devices with an app to detect the beacons' signals, participants could view webpages containing information based on…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Students, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices