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Rebecca Kudrna; Suzanne Tiemann; Michael Swoboda; Timothy Hanrahan – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2024
University First Year Seminar (FYS) programs are diverse in their content and pedagogy. Yet all seek to assist first-year students in the difficult college transition. The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate if grouping similar academic majors into the existing First Year Seminar (FYS) courses would improve social connectedness, use of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, First Year Seminars, School Orientation, College Freshmen
Weonhyeok Chung; Jeonghyeok Kim – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
High-achieving minority students have fewer friends than their majority counterparts. Exploring patterns of friendship formation in the Add Health data, we find strong racial homophily in friendship formations as well as strong achievement homophily within race. However, we find that achievement matters less in cross-racial friendships. As a…
Descriptors: Friendship, Racial Factors, High Achievement, Minority Group Students