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Archana A. Pathak; Maurice N. Gattis – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2024
LGBTQIA + college students are navigating a variety of social environments on college campuses. Faculty support, interaction with the LGBTQIA + community, and LGBTQIA + curriculum content are important ways that help support LGBTQIA + students thrive in college. Camp Qmunity is an interdisciplinary LGBTQIA + summer intensive program that allows…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, College Students, Summer Programs, Teacher Student Relationship
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Marcus Brumfield; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh; Christa Winkler – Discover Education, 2024
Background: In response to the effort to increase minority enrollment in college science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors, STEM summer bridge programs were created to help minorities with the transition from high school to college with the long-term goal of increasing the diversity of professionals in STEM. The goal of this…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, Outcomes of Education, STEM Education
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Gamage, Kusali; McCall, James; Daigle, Hugh; Miller, Chammi – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2022
The impact and benefits of undergraduate research experiences (URE) in the first two years of post-secondary education have been well documented. Early exposure to research experiences is effective in recruitment, diversity and persistence in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) degree programs, particularly among…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Transfer Students, Undergraduate Students, Student Research
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Vincenza Ferrara; Flor Álvarez-Taboada; Gert-Jan Burgers; Eduardo Corbelle-Rico; Miguel Cordero; Eduardo Dias; Anneli Ekblom; Stefanos Georganos; Jeff Howarth; Maurice de Kleijn; Tommaso La Mantia; Niels van Manen; Giovanna Sala; Rafael da Silveira Bueno; Philip Verhagen; Anders Wästfelt – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2025
Current environmental crises call for an integrated knowledge of landscapes and their ecosystems in a broader sense. This article presents a pedagogical framework for cross-disciplinary landscape research at postgraduate level. The framework is grounded in the use of geospatial epistemic discomfort as a creative force to develop and enhance…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Interdisciplinary Approach, Environmental Education, Ecology
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Heggland, Sara J.; Hovde, Carolyn J.; Minnich, Scott A.; Liou, Linda E.; Daniels, Richard L. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2021
Idaho Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) aims to build biomedical research capacity and enhance the scientific and technology knowledge of the Idaho workforce. A key INBRE Program at The College of Idaho, a primarily undergraduate institution of 1,100 students, is a 10-wk summer fellows…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Summer Programs, Undergraduate Students, Student Research
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Jura, Matthew; Gerhardt, Ira – PRIMUS, 2022
In summer 2013, Manhattan College introduced an online summer "bridge to calculus" course for incoming first-year students in science, engineering, and mathematics education who marginally did not receive a calculus recommendation based on a mathematics placement test. In this paper, we describe the development of the bridge course and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Calculus
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Gina Schlesselman-Tarango; Jill Edgerton; Elizabeth Pryor; Rainie Valencia – Communications in Information Literacy, 2023
This piece introduces the Des Moines University Library's Research and Scholarly Communication Peer Associate Program, focusing on the curriculum of a five-day summer institute developed for graduate medical and health sciences students and rooted in a critical information literacy framework. The authors outline the institute's philosophy and…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Health Sciences, Information Literacy, Program Evaluation
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Dorimé-Williams, Marjorie L.; Williams, Michael Steven; Carr, Amanda; Choi, Soobin; Fritz, N'ya; Joseph, Tricia; Pomilee, Brittany; Udoh, Ekaete – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2023
Summer bridge programs (SBPs) are intended to promote student learning, academic achievement, and persistence to graduation. They are also a viable vehicle for supporting diverse minoritized student constituencies. Our study, guided by a student-centered assessment approach, examined the experiences of incoming first-year students. Findings…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement
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Alžbeta Brozmanová Gregorová; Irene Culcasi; Milagros Ávila Olías; Aitor Arbaiza Valero – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2025
Service-learning (SL) is pivotal for institutionalizing university-- community engagement and achieving teaching and learning goals by addressing identified needs (Compare et al., 2023). This goal aligns with the European Commission's (2017) Agenda for Higher Education, prioritizing community engagement. SL in international collaboration offers…
Descriptors: Global Approach, International Education, Service Learning, Study Abroad
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Reid, Scott A.; MacBride, Laura; Nobile, Llanie; Fiedler, Adam T.; Gardinier, James R. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2021
General chemistry courses are key gateways for many Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) majors. Here, we report on the implementation and evaluation of an adaptive, ALEKS-based online preparatory module (PM) for general chemistry. The module was made available in Summer 2018 at no cost to all students entering any section of…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Evaluation, Online Courses, Summer Programs
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Geeta Verma; Sogol Asaei; Jacob D. Hostert; Rebecca Ahn; Julie N. Renner – Chemical Engineering Education, 2024
A synergetic approach to combine service learning at the university level with a high school outreach program is described. A holistic view is presented by discussing the importance of outreach and service learning, survey results, and outcomes. Overall, it was found that the unique program increased the self-efficacy (belief about one's…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Females, Service Learning, Self Efficacy
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Kurlaender, Michal; Lusher, Lester; Case, Matthew – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020
Remediation has long been a costly way to address the misalignment between K-12 and higher education. In 2011, the California State University (CSU), the nation's largest public four-year university system, enacted "Early Start," requiring students needing remediation to enroll in such courses in the summer before their freshman year. We…
Descriptors: State Universities, Remedial Programs, Summer Programs, Program Effectiveness
Boyd, Brittany – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the country have begun to implement intervention programs, such as summer bridge programs, to address potential gaps and aid students in their academic persistence, as Black students continuously persist to graduation at lower rates. However, many programs lack a way to objectively…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Summer Programs, Test Validity, College Bound Students
Trina Mitchener – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative comparative study was to determine the differences in literacy and mathematics pass rates between AY 2021-2022 and AY 2022-2023, whether a 21st CCLC Program contributed to score differences and whether there is an interaction between them in a southeastern state. A two-way mixed ANOVA was used to answer the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Programs, Summer Programs, Literacy
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Jenny R. Zhu; Behnoosh Afghani – Cogent Education, 2024
To promote health equity, it is crucial to educate the next generation of healthcare workers about disparities early on during their education. We developed a virtual research program at a medical school in the United States of America with the goal of increasing the awareness of youth about the complexities of health inequities. The program was…
Descriptors: Mentors, Research Projects, Access to Health Care, Barriers
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