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Direct linkIshitani, Terry T.; Reid, Aileen M. – New Directions for Student Services, 2015
This chapter explores first-to-second-year persistence behavior among first-time commuter students enrolled in 4-year universities and colleges.
Descriptors: Commuting Students, Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence, Student Behavior
Download full textKarp, Melinda Mechur – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2011
College success requires more than the ability to master college-level academic skills. Students must learn to navigate an unfamiliar campus, satisfy bureaucratic requirements, meet new expectations (Shields, 2002), and engage in new types of interpersonal relationships (Dickie & Farrell, 1991). Academically vulnerable students--those who are most…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Community Colleges, Commuter Colleges, Academic Achievement
Reinhart, Julie – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2010
This study explores the relationship between graduate students' communication practices and their perceived sense of program-level community within a graduate program. The program under study consists of both traditional on-campus students, as well as students who take classes via a distributed-learning model. This particular program has made a…
Descriptors: On Campus Students, Graduate Students, Distance Education, Information Sources
Peer reviewedAnselmo, Angela – Journal of the Freshman Year Experience & Students in Transition, 1997
Argues that freshman seminar class reunions increase the benefits of freshman seminars for urban commuter college students, and reports results of a study testing effectiveness of class reunions in reducing attrition for high-risk students (n=40). Findings support hypothesis that freshmen seminar groups with class reunions show greater student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, College Students
