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Download full textRockey, Marci; Congleton, Randi – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2016
Weak connections between students and their academic and social environment can hinder commitment and lead to departure (Deil-Amen, 2011; Karp, Hughes, & O'Gara, 2010). Given their influence on college retention and completion, higher levels of academic and social integration should be a priority. Rather than focus on why students leave, it is…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Persistence, Equal Education, Educational Improvement
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Direct linkYau, Hon Keung; Sun, Hongyi; Cheng, Alison Lai Fong – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
Students' adjustment to the university environment is an important factor in predicting university outcomes and is crucial to their future achievements. University support to students' transition to university life can be divided into three dimensions: academic adjustment, social adjustment and psychological adjustment. However, these…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Adjustment, Social Adjustment, Foreign Countries
Nichols, Naomi Elizabeth – Journal of Youth Studies, 2008
Using institutional ethnography, I demonstrate how one young man's efforts to find housing are shaped in relation to a complex institutional maze through which the immigration, child welfare, social assistance, and sheltering systems are linked. My goal is to show how a particular person's narrative can be used to illuminate the general…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homeless People, Administrative Organization, Ethnography
