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Young, Chelsea Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Online graduate degree program offerings are increasing in popularity, and online graduate students need support to acclimate to their degree programs. Online orientations have been effective in undergraduate programs; however, there is limited research on the effectiveness of online orientations in online graduate degree programs. The problem…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Online Courses, Doctoral Programs, Student Attitudes
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
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Esther Skelley Jordan; Linda S. Stewart – To Improve the Academy, 2024
This article reflects on the assumptions we make in the design of faculty and graduate student orientations and on the implementation of redesigned orientations that foreground participant narrative. When educational developers purposefully make space for participant stories at their orientations, it is a way not only to share power with graduate…
Descriptors: Design, Graduate School Faculty, Graduate Students, Teacher Orientation
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Zeljana Pavlovic; Lucas M. Jeno – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2024
Peer mentoring has shown beneficial effects in facilitating academic and social integration among first-year students in higher education. Previous research is, however, limited by the exclusion of a comparison group, to examine whether the integration process still occurs among non-mentored students, independently of peer mentoring. By using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Mentors, Peer Relationship
Heather R. Sorrell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined the effect of specialized orientation courses on community college student academic achievement and retention. The study utilized a quantitative design and compared the outcomes of specialized orientation courses to a more generalized orientation course. Due to the lack of previous research, there was little to suggest either a…
Descriptors: School Orientation, Special Classes, General Education, Community College Students
Amy Greenstein – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The proliferation of online education has catapulted academic pedagogical modernization and digital relevancy to the forefront of every Provost's agenda. Online education continues to expand rapidly throughout the higher education sector and an agile institutional structure, personnel and operational units are necessary to meet market demand. This…
Descriptors: Online Courses, School Orientation, Adult Students, Electronic Learning
Ashley Shivar – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Non-traditional students are quickly becoming the majority on college campuses, with three-fourths of campus populations fitting the definition of a non-traditional student. However, many institutions still lack a tailored orientation model for non-traditional students. This leads to the marginalization of adult learners, distance education…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, College Students, Adult Students, School Orientation
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Hill, Eddie; Zajchowski, Chris A. B.; Rossiter, Abigail; Edwards, Erik; Willett, Mike; Crofford, Eleanor – College Student Affairs Journal, 2023
Outdoor orientation programs (OOPs) use wilderness or adventure experiences as a transition of incoming first-year students to college and university settings. We explored resilience and flourishing outcomes from two OOP trips in Virginia and North Carolina using the Brief Resilience Scale, the Mental Health Continuum Short Form, and a thematic…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, School Orientation, Educational Practices, College Freshmen
Pierce, Dennis – Community College Journal, 2023
As community colleges create or enhance their online learning programs, campus leaders must find ways to make these experiences equitable for all students, so that everyone has a fair chance at success. Colleges are using a wide array of innovative strategies to do this. These methods include designing online courses with inclusion in mind,…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Electronic Learning, School Orientation, Learning Management Systems
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2022
The January 2022 60-Second Survey focused on the availability of different programmatic and mentorship offerings for newly admitted undergraduate and graduate students. In the framework of the survey and report, there is a differentiation between mentor programs and other newly admitted student programming. They prioritize matching newly admitted…
Descriptors: School Orientation, Mentors, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
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Lauren N. Irwin; Jaime S. Miller; Katie Morgan; Jodi Linley – Journal of College Student Development, 2023
Peer socialization agents (PSAs; e.g., resident assistants, orientation leaders) are trained to facilitate belonging through formal socialization initiatives. We used secondary qualitative data analysis, in combination with a critical constructivist approach, to explore PSAs' sense of belonging and the contexts in which they experience it through…
Descriptors: Resident Advisers, School Orientation, Leaders, Peer Relationship
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Brent J. Bell; Jorich Horner; Trevor Guilmette; Katriana Kivari – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2024
Despite their aim to foster belongingness, a small percentage of incoming college students (1%-2%) report feeling excluded (not belonging) during their outdoor orientation program. Feelings of exclusion are often highly consequential to a person transitioning to college. This study explores the experiences of students reporting low levels of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student College Relationship, School Orientation, Student Experience
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Alison C. Witte – Learning Assistance Review, 2024
This article reports on data collected from a study of 101 students taking a first-year experience course. Using a mapping methodology in an effort to understand what resources students could identify and what relationships they saw between resources, the study showed that resources associated with a specific location or connected with people were…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, First Year Seminars, School Orientation, Academic Support Services
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Rodgers, Ellen Drogin; Yoder, Margaret; Alford, Brianna; Berry, Ivory – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2023
When students are initially immersed into the academic and social community of their program, they are more likely to succeed than if left to navigate graduate school on their own. As such, well-crafted onboarding initiatives are among the highest impact retention practices and key to enhancing the graduate student experience. While George Mason…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Experience, School Holding Power, Asynchronous Communication
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Paul M. Garton; Adam Grimm; Sehee Kim – New Directions for Higher Education, 2023
Traditional ecological models are promising for making sense of international student experiences, but the assumed monolithic nature of the structuring systems is inadequate for explaining development that occurs across multiple systems. We present and expand a model called the Spanning Systems Model that recognizes multiple ecologies. The model…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Ecology, Models, Student Experience
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