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McKenna-Buchanan, Tim; Munz, Stevie; Wright, Anna; Williams, Jeremy – Basic Communication Course Annual, 2020
This study examines the basic communication course (BCC) as it relates to students' first academic year at a university. Specifically, we compared students completing both a first-year experience (FYE) course and BCC against students completing only an FYE course. Data was collected over two cohorts of students and after analytical procedures, we…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Introductory Courses, Communication Skills, School Holding Power
Toni L. Pickens – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The first year of a student's college education commonly presents new and challenging demands, which requires concentrated institutional support. The diverse population of community college students in particular, typically face increased obstacles on the journey to degree completion. First-year Experience courses have been established as a…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Beginning Teachers, Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty
Lucas, Krista L.; Spina, Alexis D. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2022
There are more STEM jobs than there are qualified graduates to fill these positions, and recruiting students into STEM majors is insufficient. Of students who enter college intending to pursue STEM, nearly half do not finish their STEM degrees. In this article, we focus on retaining students who enter college with a declared biology major. This…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), STEM Education, Occupational Aspiration, Student Research
Mya Denique Hines – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In this study, I examined ways in which Black undergraduate students perceive student success and how those perceptions are influenced by institutional power structures. In historically and predominantly white institutions, the structural conditions of anti-Blackness are endemic to the college experience and can influence how students perceive…
Descriptors: African American Students, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Success
Shi, Qingmin; Crooker, John R.; Drum, Christina R.; Drake, Brent M. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2021
The first-year seminar (FYS) has been widely implemented at colleges and universities as a strategy for facilitating student success. However, empirical evidence indicates that the observed effects of FYS on retention and academic performance are mixed. Drawing on data from first-time full-time degree-seeking cohorts from Fall 2010 through Fall…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
Cynthia Curry – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Retention rates have been an ongoing concern for higher education institutions for the last few decades, and there has been extensive research conducted to determine the root cause of this decline especially among underserved student populations. Black and Hispanic communities are rapidly growing and are expected to be the majority races within…
Descriptors: Success, Educational Practices, College Freshmen, Minority Group Students
Laucella, Lydia E. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2019
This article outlines the process of how the author purposefully designed an integrative assignment to meet the real-world needs of a nursing cohort, First-Year Seminar anchored learning community. The author provides evidence from her own teaching practices to explore the elements that contributed to the construction of this assignment. For…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Assignments, First Year Seminars, Communities of Practice
Cavanah, Megan – ProQuest LLC, 2019
One issue that continues to impact higher education is students entering college without the skills and dispositions necessary for success at the postsecondary level. While instructors and educational leaders and often pay significant attention to addressing students' lack of the prerequisite content knowledge in mathematics, reading, and writing,…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Self Determination, Independent Study, Study Skills
Hacisalihoglu, Gokhan; Stephens, Desmond; Stephens, Sonya; Johnson, Lewis; Edington, Maurice – Education Sciences, 2020
Concern about graduation rates in higher education has led universities to offer courses that help students develop success skills. Scientist Life Skills, a new course for freshman at Florida A&M University, focuses on helping students matriculate into majors via development of growth mindset, grit, and critical thinking. Here, we assessed the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Academic Persistence
Almond, Devon – College and University, 2020
Across the nation, troves of college students disenroll prior to graduation; students who do graduate often leave campus still searching as if something is missing, inadequate, and deficient. Indeed, something is missing and unsustainable in this malaise. Drawing on Tia Brown McNair, "et al." (2016), who call for student-ready campus…
Descriptors: College Students, Language Usage, Dropouts, Campuses
Candace Lisek Bruder – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The transition to college from high school is significant for at-risk students, especially as they tend to struggle with self-regulated learning skills when trying to adapt to the university environment. In an attempt to mitigate this challenge and assist students with this transition, many universities offer first-year experience courses.…
Descriptors: Gamification, At Risk Students, College Freshmen, Self Management
Laura Rodriguez; Kim Ward; Elizabeth Cowles; Carmen R. Cid; Barbara Murdoch – Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 2024
Many first-year, low-income STEM students do not remain in STEM majors past their first year nor do they complete STEM degrees. Our project aimed to support low-income, STEM majors financially and promote their STEM identities by creating a learning community focused on developing positive relationships among students, faculty, and peer mentors.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, STEM Education, Low Income Students, Majors (Students)
Krsmanovic, Masha – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
This research examined the effects of a first-year seminar course redesign on promoting students' self-efficacy. By implementing a project-based approach in the course curriculum, the study investigated if, and to what extent, did such redesign improve student belief in their ability to master course-related outcomes. Two-tailed independent…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Active Learning, Student Projects, Self Efficacy
Reed, David E.; Jones, Guinevere Z. – Education Sciences, 2021
The high-school-to-college transition can be difficult as students are adapting to a multitude of academic and social changes simultaneously. The University of Wyoming has created a first-semester program targeted at development of student skills for at-risk students using paired first-year seminar classes. Using student survey data from both pre-…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, At Risk Students, College Freshmen, Student Adjustment
James D. Arrington – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The digital turn in higher education has been described as potentially transformative for students' access, participation, and learning in higher education. However, for undergraduate students, digital literacy practices and genres are often repurposed to scaffold the reproduction of historically dominant academic literacy practices and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, First Year Seminars, College Freshmen, Asian Studies