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Jessica Belue Buckley; Catherine L. Biesecker; Thomas R. Tretter; Brian S. Robinson; Angela Knight Thompson – Journal of College Student Development, 2025
This article is part of a longitudinal study on academic sense of belonging (SB) in engineering, which uses narrative analysis to examine development of meaning-making systems (MMS). Featuring narratives of three students of color, findings show that over time, some students experienced subject-object shifts in their perceptions of SB, as well as…
Descriptors: Sense of Belonging, Student Development, Intersectionality, Navigation
Jesse R. Ford; Kaleb L. Briscoe; Dwayne Hamilton Jr.; Ashley R. Anderson – Journal of College Student Development, 2024
Black men's experiences in education are often marked by isolation, imposter syndrome, and racial microaggressions. This qualitative case study, guided by the five enactments of Cross and Fhagen Smith's (2001) model of Black identity development, explored the experiences of 20 Black men doctoral students as they navigated and continually redefined…
Descriptors: African American Students, Student Experience, Student Development, Self Concept
Julia C. Duncheon; Corey D. Stone; Marilyn Garcia – Journal of College Student Development, 2025
Early college high schools (ECHSs), which combine high school with the first two years of college, have grown in popularity nationwide. Research suggests ECHS participation has positive impacts on college enrollment and completion, but little is known about how ECHS graduates experience university life. Using a framework of college belonging and…
Descriptors: College Preparation, High School Graduates, Undergraduate Students, Student Experience
Booker, Jordan A.; Wesley, Rachel; Pierre, Natasha – Journal of College Student Development, 2021
Students who face life's challenges with a clear focus on agency and who feel that they are in control should also be making more progress in exploring and committing to aspects of their identity (see Schwartz et al., 2005) and have greater well-being (e.g., McLean et al., 2019). Agency is a fundamental motivational drive that is reflected in the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Late Adolescents, Personal Autonomy, Student Development
Harrington, Keneisha; Phelps-Ward, Robin – Journal of College Student Development, 2021
From microaggressions and exclusionary practices to epistemic violence and racial battle fatigue (Clark et al., 2012; Levin et al., 2013), the social sciences literature has highlighted the multitude of ways graduate Students of Color (GSOC) experience racism. Further, scholars have continued to underscore the prevailing influence of campus racial…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Development, Action Research, Participatory Research
du Toit, Nadia; Naudé, Luzelle – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
This article describes through the lens of self-authorship development the meaning-making processes of South African postgraduate psychology students who are expected to undergo significant growth as they journey towards becoming mental health professionals. Reflective writing tasks and individual interviews of 4 postgraduate students were…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Graduate Students, Psychology, Foreign Countries
Hsieh, Jasper Kun-Ting; Wang, Li-Yi – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
Although the complexity of identity transformation among Chinese-speaking international students (CSIS) has been emphasized in previous research, there is a perceived linear and causal pattern between studying abroad and being intercultural. This pattern of thinking results in the risk of treating all the CSIS as the same in each cohort of…
Descriptors: Student Development, Student Experience, Foreign Students, Graduate Students
Duran, Antonio; Jones, Susan R. – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
Using intersectionality as a framework, we examined how queer Students of Color at historically white institutions explored and made meaning of their intersecting identities in college. This research employed constructivist grounded theory to understand how 20 queer Collegians of Color at various HWIs explained the process of identity exploration…
Descriptors: College Students, LGBTQ People, Minority Group Students, African American Students
Baker, Dominique J.; Arroyo, Andrew T.; Braxton, John M.; Gasman, Marybeth – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
Theoretical modeling has been a widely used tool in the student persistence literature for many years; however, only recently has it been applied to the Historical Black College or University (HBCU) context in an intentional way. We investigated a theory of student persistence in commuter institutions at 2 commuter HBCUs (N = 147 students).…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Black Colleges, African American Students, Commuter Colleges
Muñoz, Alejandra; Alleman, Nathan F. – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
This qualitative study examines the role of college in how undocumented students make meaning of their identity through the concept of status ownership. Using a sociological framework that drew upon Kaufman and Feldman's (2004) work, this study calls attention to the social context in the college experience and offers insight into this student…
Descriptors: Social Status, Undocumented Immigrants, Qualitative Research, College Students
Gullan, Rebecca Lakin; Bauer, Kathleen; Korfiatis, Pierre; DeOliveira, Jennifer; Blong, Kelsey; Docherty, Meagan – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
Although the importance of mentorship has been widely recognized, operationalizing and measuring critical components of the mentoring relationship has proved to be a greater challenge. This brief focused on the development of a quantitative measure of mentoring relationships during the college years. The study's findings provide initial evidence…
Descriptors: Mentors, Measures (Individuals), Statistical Analysis, Undergraduate Students
Foste, Zak; Irwin, Lauren – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
In recent years a host of scholars have considered the contributions of various critical and post-structural perspectives to the study of college student development. This body of work has drawn on critical race theory, intersectionality, and queer theory, among others, to advance more power-conscious approaches to student development. Critical…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Whites, College Students, Race
Kilgo, Cindy A.; Linley, Jodi L.; Renn, Kristen A.; Woodford, Michael R. – Journal of College Student Development, 2019
We used quantitative data from the National Study of LGBTQ Student Success to investigate if participation in high-impact educational practices influenced lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer (LGBQ+) students' academic development. We also examined if these effects are mediated by perceptions of the campus environment. Our findings suggested that…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, College Students, Student Experience, Educational Practices
Taylor, Kari B.; Baker, Amanda R. – Journal of College Student Development, 2019
Scholars and practitioners alike often assume that discomfort is a necessary and productive aspect of the college experience. We used a range of theories grounded in the concept of dissonance to question these assumptions and critically analyze the role of discomfort in collegiate learning and development for today's diverse college student…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Development, Psychological Patterns, Role
Goodman, Kathleen M. – Journal of College Student Development, 2017
Need for cognition is the enjoyment of and motivation to think, solve problems, and actively use one's mind, characteristics that are vital to learning. Diversity has been associated with many learning outcomes, yet critics of diversity claim that viewpoint diversity--not racial diversity--is sufficient for learning; therefore, I explored the…
Descriptors: Ethnic Diversity, Racial Differences, College Freshmen, Racial Factors