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Swarts, Valerie R.; Walters, Timothy L. – 1995
This paper investigates a number of questions concerning the relative advantages of the U.S. Mail versus electronic mail. Specifically, the paper asks: (1) what is the impact that E-mail has on the ways in which people communicate interpersonally in a visual presentation; (2) will E-mail replace such traditional forms of communication as greeting…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Electronic Mail, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication
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Chaskes, Jay – Journal of the Freshman Year Experience & Students in Transition, 1996
A model based on the immigrant's experience is proposed to explain the social and psychological dimensions of the student's transition from high school to college. The freshman-year experience is viewed as a process of resocialization to a new cultural environment involving culture shock, new language learning, and internalization of academic,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
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Hughes, Rees – NASPA Journal, 1990
Examines the organization and delivery of student services in Kenyan universities, and raises questions that emanate from a comparison of the American and Kenyan student affairs professions. Three recommendations are provided for increased National Association of Student Personnel Administrators involvement in student services in Kenya. (Author/TE)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Deans of Students
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Ogbu, John U. – Education Libraries, 1992
Identifies different types of minorities (i.e., autonomous, immigrant or voluntary, and nonimmigrant or involuntary) and suggests that immigrant minorities are more successful in school and society than involuntary minorities because they view cultural and language differences as barriers to overcome, whereas involuntary minorities develop new,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Attitudes