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Pietro A. Sasso; Brian Joyce; Stevan J. Veldkamp – New Directions for Student Services, 2024
The Piazza Center Horizontal Hazing Model conceptualizes the ways in which hazing transitions from pre-college environments into higher education and across student constructed spaces such as student organizations or sorority and fraternity chapters. Hazing is multi-tiered, occurring at individual, organizational, and community levels. This model…
Descriptors: Hazing, Models, Student Organizations, Sororities
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Mads Paludan Goddiksen – Science & Education, 2025
Developing an adequate understanding of the nature of science includes developing an understanding of the uses and importance of models in science. General accounts of science aimed at university students, however, tend to neglect this aspect. A noticeable exception is the simple model of the key elements of a scientific result presented by Giere,…
Descriptors: College Students, Models, Comprehension, Scientific Principles
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Megan Silvey – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2025
Who 'owns' student success at an institution of higher education? Which unit is responsible for student outcomes? The answer to those questions at most universities is complicated. The evidence-based programmes, processes and interventions institutions implement to bolster student success are rarely 'communications' initiatives, but they all…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, College Students, Success, Models
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Jorge López González; Verónica Fernández Espinosa; Salvador Ortiz de Montellano – Journal of Moral Education, 2024
This article presents a theoretical justification and a proposal that seeks to educate university students in leadership through virtues and personal competencies. A distinction is offered between virtues and competencies without opposing them. Subsequently, a leadership education model based on virtues and personal competencies is offered. This…
Descriptors: Ethics, Models, Leadership Training, College Students
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Lipnicki, Aryn – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2023
This article describes a two-credit critical service-learning course at the University of Minnesota and its evolution to utilize both the Social Change Model and Social Action, Leadership, and Transformation models in complementary ways to support student leadership development.
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Service Learning, College Students, Educational Change
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Sofía Judith Garófalo; Lydia Galagovsky; Manuel Alonso – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2024
In this work extensive misconceptions of university students'--from nutrition area--about the metabolism of carbohydrates (CHM) in the human organism have been documented. The results lead to consider their difficulties concerning the learning of a complex set of imbricated biochemical models involved. Pursuant to these considerations, three…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Human Body, Biochemistry, STEM Education
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Cath Ellis; Kane Murdoch – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
Current approaches used by educational institutions to address the problem of student cheating are not working. This is because the discourse of academic integrity that currently dominates is, on its own, inadequate for addressing the problem. We propose that in order for higher education institutions to challenge cheating effectively, they need…
Descriptors: Cheating, Student Behavior, Barriers, College Students
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C. V. Dolan; Jason C. Garvey – Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 2024
The purpose of this article is to describe an emergent model that conceptualizes common experiences for nonbinary people as they explore and navigate their identities by synthesizing existing nonbinary identity development literature. We ground our manuscript epistemologically in queer theory, queer of color critique, and intersectionality theory.…
Descriptors: Self Concept, LGBTQ People, Sex Role, Individual Development
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James P. Ravenhill; Beatrice Hayes; Nuno Nodin; Narender Ramnani; Ilham Sebah; Victoria J. Bourne – Psychology Teaching Review, 2024
Issues of equality, diversity, and inclusion are under increasing scrutiny in Higher Education. This poses an opportunity for educators involved in the delivery of psychology courses to reflect on the inclusivity of their curricula. Though psychology as a discipline has contributed to reproducing social inequalities, it has also brought them to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Faculty, Psychology
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Yihe Yang; Antonio Jimenez-Luque – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2025
This article presents the Leadership Tree Model, a metaphorical and conceptual framework for transformative leadership development in higher education. Rooted in critical pedagogy and social justice, the model encourages educators to create inclusive, reflective, and action-oriented learning environments. It positions leadership as a relational…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Leadership Training, Models, Higher Education
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Kristen A. Renn; Brandon R. G. Smith – New Directions for Higher Education, 2023
In this chapter we provide an overview of campus ecology and ecological systems theory as applied to the study of higher education, most often to research on college students. We describe Bronfenbrenner's developmental ecological model and its application of it to the study of college students. We then discuss affordances and limitations of this…
Descriptors: Ecology, Models, Higher Education, Educational Research
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Susan B. Foster; John J. Miller – Sport Management Education Journal, 2025
Sport management curricula at universities across the United States often require one or more classes on legal issues of sport. Most often, the topic of risk management (RM) is not covered as extensively as necessary with venues and events being targets of violence and terrorism. Do graduating sport management students understand RM in a way where…
Descriptors: Risk Management, Experiential Learning, Learning Theories, Athletics
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Witenstein, Matthew A.; Davila, Natalia; Karikari, LaDreka; Wright, Chantelle – Journal of Career Development, 2023
Immigrant college students often encounter daunting tasks and obstacles when exploring career paths, seeking employment and experiential learning opportunities aligned with their interests within the dominant US higher education structure. Considering that there is a career services and development literature gap on immigrant students (who…
Descriptors: Immigrants, College Students, Career Centers, Caring
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Atay, Elaine; Murry, Adam – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2023
Improving post-secondary outcomes and retention of Indigenous students may require interventions such as culturally appropriate mentorship. "Mainstream" mentorship perspectives and practices developed within places of Western education and employment may be limited in their ability to address the unique cultural considerations and…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, Mentors, Culturally Relevant Education
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Lee, Hyewon; Hernandez, Paul R.; Tise, Joseph C.; Du, Wenyi – Theory Into Practice, 2023
Bandura's research on observational learning laid the foundation of role model research. Contemporary research shows role models support women and racial/ethnic minority students in STEM by buffering them from the deleterious effects of stereotype threats and boosting their self-efficacy. However, certain characteristics can make role models more…
Descriptors: Role Models, Diversity, College Students, STEM Education
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