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Ana M. Martínez-Alemán; Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon; Adam M. McCready – Journal of College Student Development, 2024
To mark ACPA's 100th anniversary, this paper will review what we currently know about the impact of one of the most consequential technologies for this generation of college students: social media. Social media have had significant effects on the lives of college students today and will continue to shape college student life going forward.
Descriptors: College Students, Social Media, Student Personnel Services, Self Concept
Meredith Grace McDevitt – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation is an exploration of leader identity development and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) college academic classrooms. While there continues to be research promoting diversity in STEM professions, women remain underrepresented in STEM disciplines, leadership positions, and for this specific study, the…
Descriptors: Females, College Students, STEM Education, Student Experience
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Myfanwy Tilley – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
A persistent challenge for Australian higher education policymakers and researchers has been to understand why policies and practices have met with limited success in widening the participation and attainment of non-traditional students. This paper explores theorising Narrative Identity as a constructive methodological framework for understanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students, Student Experience
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Alyssa Stefanese Yates – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
There are over 2.7 million student-mothers pursuing associate and bachelor's degrees in the US higher education system. Although student-mothers' enrollment continues to grow, they report being misunderstood and underserved in higher education. In response, I offer a modification to Marcia Baxter Magolda's self-authorship entitled,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mothers, Self Concept, Student Personnel Services
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Cecilia Woon Chien Teng; Raymond Boon Tar Lim; Claire Gek Ling Tan – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: Reflective practice (RP) is a key skill for developing one's professional practice. It has, however, not been unanimously prioritised in public health (PH) competency and education frameworks. Reflection activities are often unstructured in higher education. There is also a dearth of literature on the RPs of undergraduate PH students.…
Descriptors: Reflection, Student Experience, Public Health, Internship Programs
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Esohe R. Osai; Shanyce L. Campbell; James W. Greer – Children & Schools, 2024
Out-of-school time (OST) has great significance as a youth development space that can support students' exploration of social justice. Such opportunities for exploration are especially important in times of social distress and upheaval, such as those experienced during the school shutdowns and racial unrest associated with the global pandemic.…
Descriptors: Youth, Leisure Time, Extracurricular Activities, Social Justice
Christopher M. Kincaid – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With numbers over half a million, student-athletes are a significant, yet unique, population on college campuses. They encounter unique experiences and face unique challenges, not the least of which is navigating the competing roles of student and athlete. Navigating these roles within the high-stakes and competitive world of collegiate athletics…
Descriptors: Success, College Athletics, Student Athletes, Student Experience
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Yuan Zhang; Jonathan E. Taylor – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Possible Selves theory, introduced by Markus and Nurius (1986), explores individuals' ideas of what they might become, what they would like to become, and what they fear becoming. This paper examines the theoretical foundations of Possible Selves theory and its implications for identity development, particularly among graduate students. It reviews…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Self Concept, Individual Development, Self Actualization
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Caroline Cully Garbers; Dale W. Pracht; T. Grady Roberts – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2024
Universities are increasingly working to better prepare students for success in the workforce and increasingly advocating high-impact learning experiences. This case study explores the short-term impacts on students who participated in a short-term service-learning study abroad program in Ireland through a lens of Transformative Learning Theory.…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Service Learning, Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries
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Anne C. Campbell; Jordyn Dezago; Quintessence Townsend – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Pursuing education overseas is a high impact practice in higher education. Students who identify as LGBTQIA + --commonly referred to as "queer," an umbrella term--may be more likely to participate yet face additional unique challenges. Using a systematic review of literature across multiple disciplines, this paper explores LGBTQIA +…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, College Students, Foreign Students, Student Motivation
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Sylvia Dempsey; Margaret Healy; Carol Linehan – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Placement as a form of work-integrated learning is a valued element of undergraduate education. Prior work explores how placement provides a site for developing professional values, skills and competences as well as identifying how students build awareness of professional requirements. Greater focus on how such processes of awareness are realised,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Self Concept, Student Experience, Group Membership
Kaitlyn Rushelle Fisette Kelly – ProQuest LLC, 2024
First-generation college students are a prominent higher education student population and are well-represented at the community college. Unfortunately, many first-generation community college students do not persist for degree completion. These students face many academic and social challenges that impact their persistence. However, research has…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Extracurricular Activities, Student Experience, First Generation College Students
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Liv Helene Jensen; Hjørdis Frisnes; Cathrine Atundi Sødal; Marthe Lyngås Eklund; Beate Lie Sverre – Educational Action Research, 2024
Student mentoring is increasingly visible in professional practice, and in recent years, universities have integrated peer mentoring across different programs. To provide student mentors with appropriate support and contribute to the future development and success of student mentoring, it is necessary to investigate not only the benefits afforded…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Student Experience, Mentors, Peer Relationship
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Kaitlin M. Brunett; Chris Kinstley; Krista Howard; Jessica Perrotte; Rebecca Deason; Millie Cordaro – Journal of College Student Mental Health, 2024
Objective: This study examined provisional prevalence rates of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) along with psychosocial correlates among U.S. college students during the first year of the pandemic. Participants: There were 1,793 undergraduate college student participants recruited from a public university. Methods: Using the Patient Health…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Public Colleges, Anxiety Disorders, Trauma
Andrew David White – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Social group disparities persist in who chooses to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields in higher education. Goal congruity theory has highlighted how perceptions of other-oriented opportunities in STEM can spur interest among underrepresented students. The present work extends this framework by considering how…
Descriptors: College Students, Disproportionate Representation, Self Concept, Individual Development
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