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Gansemer-Topf, Ann M.; Kollasch, Aurelia; Sun, Jie – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2017
Improving student persistence, especially in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, continues to be at the forefront of national educational policy discussions. Living in university housing, with its focus specifically on assisting students in transition, has consistently been positively related to student persistence.…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Persistence, On Campus Students, College Freshmen
Suitor, Daniel Troy – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Attending college can be a rewarding but stressful time for students. Colleges and universities across the nation are becoming more and more concerned with the mental health of their students. Although past research has explored how social support and sense of community help students make a better transition to college life, less is known about…
Descriptors: College Students, Social Support Groups, Community Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
Krum, Tiana E.; Davis, Kyle S.; Galupo, M. Paz – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2013
Traditional on-campus housing assignments at colleges and universities are made on the basis of legal sex, where students are housed only with other students of the same legal sex. This method is problematic for transgender and gender-nonconforming students, who may not identify with the gender assigned to them at birth. Recently, some…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Housing, Gender Issues, College Students
Sax, Linda J.; Weintraub, Dayna S. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2016
Using a sample of 995 students living in residential housing at a selective, public research university, this study examined the relationship between student-parent interactions and adjustment to college and investigated differences between student-mother interactions and student-father interactions. Results indicate that students are generally…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Adjustment, Academic Achievement, Parent Child Relationship
Anderson, Isolde K.; Lerstrom, Alan; Tintle, Nathan – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2014
This study surveyed 399 incoming first-year students at two colleges in the Midwest on their use of social network sites before college entry and its impact on various dimensions of the first-year experience. Significant correlations were found for two pairs of variables: (a) students who used social network sites before arriving on campus…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Social Networks, Correlation, College Bound Students
Burgess, Melissa Renee – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the concept of "fit" with housing/residence life professionals at colleges and universities using Werbel and Gilliland's (1999) framework/ model of describing person-environment fit and then determine how/if this fit may be impacted by individual or institutional demographics. This purpose…
Descriptors: College Housing, Dormitories, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers
Gilgour, Joseph G. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Community colleges in the United States have long been known as institutions of equal opportunity and affordable education. One facet of student life appearing at more and more community colleges is the addition of residence halls. Still, the number of community colleges with on-campus living is relatively small, and for the campuses with…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dormitories, College Housing, Discipline Policy
Clark, Elizabeth A.; Jackson, Shannon; Everhart, Deborah – Journal of College Student Development, 2012
Due to a greater number of students enrolling in higher educational institutions, an increase in demand for housing on college campuses exists putting a strain on infrastructure. In order to accommodate the students, some universities are tripling students in residential settings by putting three students in a room originally designed for two.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Campuses, College Housing, Dormitories
Hanasono, Lisa K.; Nadler, Lawrence B. – Journal of College Student Development, 2012
Previous research on the complex interplay between roommate factors and relational satisfaction has offered contradictory findings. This study establishes a typology that accounts for relational satisfaction among first-year college roommates. Drawing from the theoretical framework of Interactional Dialectics and the ideal hypothesis, three…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Classification, College Freshmen, Guidelines
Lee-Johnson, Yin Lam – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2015
Many colleges and universities nationwide have experienced an influx of international students in the recent years. International students have become important research subjects. Yet, little is known about their out-of-class learning and how that affects their overall learning experiences in the USA. The objective of this five-month qualitative…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English (Second Language), Native Speakers, Foreign Students
Zúñiga, Ximena; Nelson Laird, Thomas F.; Mitchell, Tania D. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2015
This study examines whether participation in a diversity initiative, Project MosaiK, helped prepare students to engage and actively address social justice issues in their residence halls. After controlling for background characteristics, findings suggest that the more students participated in Project MosaiK activities, the more likely they were to…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Democratic Values, Citizenship Education, Social Justice
Arensdorf, Jill; Naylor-Tincknell, Janett – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2016
Living Learning Communities (LLCs) have been shown to increase student retention rates and academic performance (Hotchkiss, Moore, & Pitts, 2006), as well as increase overall satisfaction with college (Baker & Pomerantz, 2000) and increase cognitive skills (Walker, 2003). These benefits have been demonstrated in a variety of institutions…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Qualitative Research, Focus Groups, Student Attitudes
Gumus, Huseyin; Akdevelioglu, Yasemin; Bulduk, Sidika – European Journal of Educational Research, 2014
We aimed to determine how factors such as smoking, regular activity, etc. affected dietary glycemic index in university students. Methods: This study was carried out at Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey. The participants were 577 randomly selected Turkish healthy female university students aged 17-32 years. The survey included a questionnaire that…
Descriptors: Smoking, Body Composition, Body Weight, Body Height
Parker, Jeffrey – Journal of Economic Education, 2012
This article examines whether first-year students in introductory economics courses get better grades if they have other students in their on-campus residential unit who either are taking the same course or have taken the course in the past. The study uses nine years of data for the introductory economics course at Reed College. The author finds…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Introductory Courses, College Freshmen, Place of Residence
Organization for Autism Research, 2018
This guide prominently engages the voices of people on the autism spectrum as well as highly qualified professionals to provide information and tips vital to promoting success in higher education for people on the autism spectrum in three major areas: transition to higher education, attending college, and, finally, transitioning out of college…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, College Students, College Readiness