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Darren Pierre; Allison Dunn – Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship, 2024
Students learn how to be a leader and how to develop their leadership capacity as they participate in shared experiences or learning communities, many of which are facilitated by student affairs professionals through campus activities programs. For large numbers of college students, their first learning community, and subsequent path to future…
Descriptors: College Students, Resident Advisers, Student Leadership, Leadership Training
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Allen A. Womble – Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship, 2023
With marginality and power, forms of resistance, and student development literature serving as a framework, this article explores how student leaders' minoritized identities impact their student involvement journeys. Utilizing the methods of Constructivist Grounded Theory, this paper answers the following research question: "In what ways do…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Leadership, Minority Group Students, Student Development
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Plante, Jarrad D.; Bryer, Thomas A.; Winston, Haley G. – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2019
This article presents a model that is based on Eyler and Giles' Five Elements of Citizenship, where students learn about Volunteer UCF through marketing strategies, participate in one-time service or educational events, and then pursue continuous involvement based on their positive experiences. Students transition to leadership roles by serving on…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Community Involvement, Service Learning, Student Development
Sanchez, Samuel Landon – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The college marching band provides students with opportunities that foster student development, defined as the personal growth and identity development of students due to environmental factors in higher education. However, previous research has not focused on the role of college marching band participation in student development. The goal of this…
Descriptors: College Students, Music Activities, Student Development, Student Characteristics
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Jääskeläinen, Tuula – Research Studies in Music Education, 2023
Enhancing our knowledge about students' experiences during their studies in higher music education is essential to understand and support them as they cope with their specific workloads in studying music. This study provides a research-based understanding of what engaging in music means to music students when they reflected on their experiences of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Student Responsibility, College Students, Cultural Differences
Megan Upchurch Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The benefits of experiential education are well known and a popular discussion topic on college campuses. The value of participation in a co-op work experience is recognized by employers, but not necessarily by the students they are hoping to hire. This study sought to determine whether or not students who did participate in a co-op found their…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Experiential Learning, Student Participation, College Students
Wiemer, Andrew David – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The overarching purpose of this research study was to develop a broader understanding of various forms of civic learning and democratic engagement activities that foster a student's development of civic-mindedness and their intentions for future civic participation. The goal of the research was to understand civic-mindedness through the lens of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Phenomenology, Citizen Participation, College Students
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Lower-Hoppe, Leeann M.; Elkins, Daniel J.; Beggs, Brent A.; Forrester, Scott A. – Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship, 2020
Higher education theorists have long since proposed student involvement in educational programs is directly proportional to student learning (Astin, 1999), neglecting potential non-linear relationships. The purpose of this study is to determine the presence of non-linear relationships between collegiate recreational sports (CRS) participation and…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Recreational Activities, Athletics, Student Participation
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Sofy Carayannopoulos; Vesna Damnjanovic – Education & Training, 2025
Purpose: Case competitions are growing in popularity, in part because they are believed to build the skills and employment opportunities that higher education institutions are struggling to provide. We add to the nascent research on case competitions and answer calls for more exploration of career-related aspects of case competitions by exploring…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Student Participation, Competition, Skill Development
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Juhi Kidwai; Mohammad Al Rjoob; Valerie Boyer; Maria Claudia Franca – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2025
Purpose: This study evaluated the impact and contributing factors of an exchange study abroad program between Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU-C) and the University of São Paulo (USP). The research aimed to identify barriers and facilitators to participation, assess students' self-reported personal and professional growth resulting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Study Abroad, College Students
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Wolfinbarger, Kim Graves; Shehab, Randa L.; Trytten, Deborah A.; Walden, Susan E. – Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
Background: Engineering competition teams (ECTs) allow college students to learn about and practice leadership within a technical domain, yet we know little about the mechanisms by which leadership development occurs within these teams. This paper explores how ECT participation contributes to students' leadership identity development (LID).…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Competition, Student Leadership, Student Development
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Hui, Yan Keung; Kwok, Lam For; Ip, Horace H. S. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
Student participation in extracurricular activities has been proven to be as an important element in personal development and become an indicator of their competencies in relation to their future career success. However, participation in extracurricular activities is not systematically recorded and is difficult to be used for planning and…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Extracurricular Activities, Academic Achievement, Professional Development
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Niehaus, Elizabeth; Williams, Letitia; Fullerton, Adam – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
Given the rapid increase in tertiary enrollments in Trinidad and Tobago over the past 2 decades, there is a critical need for locally based research to guide practice in student support services. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the work of student support services--in particular, students' interactions with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers
Elizabeth Mckay Cooke – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study assesses the influence of a college-level intervention program on its student participants' self-efficacy. Self-efficacy theory provides an essential foundational lens for this study as it provides the necessary sources to broaden an intervention program's plans from students' individualized experiences. Study participants…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Efficacy, Student Development, Intervention
Lau, Ka Hing; Snell, Robin Stanley – Metropolitan Universities, 2021
Service-learning was introduced into Hong Kong over a decade ago, yet there is a research gap about the self-perceived developmental outcomes for students, partly due to the lack of a reliable measurement instrument across course disciplines and types of service-learning. This study validated a recently created Service-Learning Outcomes…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Outcomes of Education, Measures (Individuals), Factor Structure
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