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Taiwo Adenuga – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The number of Nigerian graduate students enrolling at HBCUs has increased over last decade. Nigerian students have consistently made-up majority of the student population enrolled in U.S. colleges from West African countries. However, despite the growing presence of Nigerian students at HBCUs, these students face several adjustment challenges…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Adjustment, Foreign Countries, Black Colleges
Frazier-Watson, Patrice – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to understand how the transition services received in high school influence the transition experiences of SWSLD in two community colleges in Maryland. Schlossberg's Transition Theory (1981, 1984) of "Moving In," "Moving Through" and "Moving Out" was the framework for this…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Transitional Programs, High School Students, Community Colleges
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Falkey, Mary E. – Journal of Academic Administration in Higher Education, 2016
This paper, based on a qualitative study, explores the transition experiences of Post-9/11 Era military veterans from active duty military service to college students for the purpose of adding to the body of knowledge about this student population. The subjects, who voluntarily offered to participate, were 15 community college student/veterans and…
Descriptors: Veterans, Military Personnel, Higher Education, Qualitative Research
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Gargano, Terra – Journal of International Students, 2012
This paper is an exploration of the identity negotiations of two international undergraduate students at a public research university in the United States. Studying abroad constitutes a culturally contested space for educational sojourners, with ruptures that require constant sense-making and negotiations of identities as students attempt to…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Research Universities
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Wang, Ming-Te – School Psychology Quarterly, 2009
The present study used an ecological framework to examine the relationships among adolescents' perceptions of school climate, social competence, and behavioral and psychological adjustment in the middle school years. This study improved upon prior studies by using "structural equation modeling" to investigate the hypothesized mediating…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Structural Equation Models, Early Adolescents, Error of Measurement