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Evans, Carl; Yusof, Zatun N. – Industry and Higher Education, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic reduced the availability of work placements in commercial organisations for university students and potentially changed the nature of placements in the future. Similarly, charitable organisations who were already suffering budget restrictions have been financially affected by COVID-19 due to reduced revenue on trading…
Descriptors: Student Volunteers, College Students, Work Experience, Job Skills
Pinghui Wu; Lucy McMillan – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2023
This study assesses the impact of involuntary job loss on college persistence by leveraging different job-loss timings relative to a student's college enrollment decision. We find that job loss increases the probability that a working college student leaves college before attaining a degree, but access to short-term credit through credit card…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Enrollment, Paying for College, College Bound Students
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Perozzi, Brett – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2019
Using a learning-focused lens, this chapter explores concepts such as recruiting, training, and supervision through the strategic use of leadership learning outcomes. Within a broad context of leadership development, institution-specific promising practices and examples are provided to demonstrate implementation of the concepts.
Descriptors: Student Employment, Student Leadership, Leadership Training, Recruitment
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Bennett, Jessica L.; Stout, Tracy L. – Public Services Quarterly, 2021
In 2015, the Research and Instructional Services Unit of Meyer Library at Missouri State University was challenged to update and rethink the current service model and space. We had been operating in a traditional reference model, including a large, walkup reference desk that was staffed primarily by faculty librarians. After reviewing the…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Academic Libraries, Models, Library Facilities
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Dean, Bonnie Amelia; Sykes, Christopher – Studies in Continuing Education, 2022
One of the key challenges in work-integrated learning (WIL) courses is how to account for learning that takes place away from campus, where the work space, daily routines and emergent actions within an organisation shape the possibilities for student learning. What do students do on placement to open the possibilities of working and learning in…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Workplace Learning, Student Employment, Situated Learning
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Ballo, Jannike Gottschalk; Heglum, Mari Amdahl; Nilsen, Wendy; Bernstrøm, Vilde Hoff – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
Early work experience is found to be an influential factor in young people's transitions from school to work. Still, we know little about whether early work experience can protect vulnerable young people from subsequent exclusion from labour and education in early adulthood. Our objective is therefore to examine how early work experience in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Out of School Youth, At Risk Persons
Tieszen, Noel – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2022
For decades, Summer Youth Employment Programs (SYEPs) have provided income, career exposure, and real-life work experience for thousands of young people across the United States. Yet year after year, youth and community leaders report that there are not enough summer jobs to go around. Some cities pressure underfunded SYEPs to serve all youth who…
Descriptors: Youth Employment, Seasonal Employment, Student Employment, Unemployment
Hai, Rong; Heckman, James J. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
We develop and estimate a life-cycle model in a rational addiction framework where youth choose to smoke, attend school, work part-time, and consume while facing borrowing constraints. The model features multiple channels for studying the reciprocal causal effects of addiction and education. Variations in endowments and cigarette prices are…
Descriptors: Smoking, Addictive Behavior, Health Education, Program Effectiveness
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Tan, Tong Sheng; Lim, Eivon; Loke, Yiing Jia – Education & Training, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of term-time employment among undergraduate students and to identify the factors that affect the number of working hours in term-time employment. The study also aims to explore if students work during term time due to self-development or financial needs.…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Working Hours, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
Institute for College Access & Success, 2023
The higher education to workforce pipeline is crucial for our country's economic growth and longevity. However, almost half of students who enroll in college fall off and never complete. The outcomes are even starker for students from low-income backgrounds who face high levels of unmet needs and barriers to completion while in school. Ensuring…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Nutrition, Federal Programs, Postsecondary Education
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Wladis, Claire; Hachey, Alyse C.; Conway, Katherine – Journal of Higher Education, 2023
This study explored the relationships between voluntary online course enrollment (pre-pandemic), time poverty, and college outcomes. Results indicate that students who enrolled in at least one fully online course were significantly more time poor than other students; these differences were largely explained by age, parental status, and paid work.…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Online Courses, Outcomes of Education, Time Factors (Learning)
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Moodie, Gavin; Wheelahan, Leesa; Bragg, Debra D. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This article focuses on adult working learners who attend postsecondary institutions in Canada and the United States. We identify how these institutions deliver curriculum and instruction in the form of career-technical education (CTE) and vocational education offering occupational credentials. In British Columbia and the U.S., most vocational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Employees, Postsecondary Education
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Kim, Esther Chihye – Ethnography and Education, 2023
Little is known about college students during their summer break between the first and second years of college, when some students may contemplate whether they will return to college. Using ethnographic method, this article addresses critical questions of low-income college students during their summer breaks of where they go, where they stay, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Low Income Students, At Risk Students, Achievement Gains
Pinghui Wu; Lucy McMillan – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2023
Every year, 2 million first-time, full-time undergraduate students enter a degree-granting postsecondary institution in the United States, but more than one-third leave college before obtaining a college degree. This report's analysis shows that job loss has an adverse effect on college persistence for 18- to 24-year-old US working students, that…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Academic Persistence, Student Attitudes, Educational Policy
Ratana Prinyawiwatkul – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Teaching and learning have been impacted by rapidly emerging technological innovations in today's 21st century academic paradigm (Saykili, 2019). It has been challenging to integrate technology into fundamental education in a manner that effectively promotes student learning since it has developed rapidly (Saykili, 2019). Additionally, given the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Computer Literacy, Digital Literacy, 21st Century Skills
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