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Amalia E. Maulana; Paul G. Patterson; Arif Satria; Indry A. Pradipta – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2024
This study proposes a new giving behavior model for higher education institutions (HEI), featuring alumni connectedness as a primary predictor. This contrasts with previous studies that measured variables that showed an inconsistent influence as predictors of alumni's desire to contribute. Alumni connectedness, built from socio-psychological…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Alumni, Donors, Predictor Variables
Alexei Nakonechnyi – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Despite more than four decades of extensive research on student engagement and campus climate, researchers still do not know how to create undergraduate learning environments that promote student persistence. Undergraduate student graduation rate in the US has consistently hovered at around the 50 percent mark. In fact, the field of student…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Learner Engagement, Higher Education, College Environment
Zapp, Mike; Lerch, Julia C. – Sociology of Education, 2020
Cross-national analyses of university curricula are rare, particularly with a focus on internationalization, commonly studied as impacting higher education through the mobility of people, programs, and campuses. By contrast, we argue that university knowledge shapes globalization by producing various sociopolitical conceptions beyond the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Education, Global Approach, Cross Cultural Studies
Rose, Emily; Sriram, Risi – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
Leaders of higher education value student engagement because of its measured effects on student outcomes such as retention and academic success. To increase engagement, institutions implement measures such as livinglearning programs, which combine the residential experience with an academic focus (Arboleda, Wang, Shelley, & Whalen, 2003; Zhao…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Residential Institutions, Higher Education
Castellanos, Jeanett; Gloria, Alberta M.; Besson, Doriane; Clark Harvey, Le Ondra – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2016
This study examined the degree to which cultural fit (cultural congruity in combination with perception of the university environment) and the dimensional noncognitive processes of mentoring predicted college satisfaction and life satisfaction for 238 racial and ethnic minority undergraduates from two university contexts. Group differences as well…
Descriptors: Mentors, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, Life Satisfaction
Maguire, Rebecca; Egan, Arlene; Hyland, Philip; Maguire, Phil – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Student engagement is a key predictor of academic performance, persistence and retention in higher education. While many studies have identified how aspects of the college environment influence engagement, fewer have specifically focused on emotional intelligence (EI). In this study, we sought to explore whether EI could predict cognitive and/or…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries, Emotional Intelligence, Higher Education
Henninger, William R., IV; Osbeck, Anastasia; Eshbaugh, Elaine M.; Madigan, Christopher – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2016
Loneliness is an issue that is ubiquitous across college and university campuses. Studies have shown that students who utilize campus counseling services report loneliness as one of the most common issues for which they seek counseling. Although loneliness has been studied in the social sciences, little attention has been paid to predictors of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Housing, College Students, Psychological Patterns
Balmeo, Marilyn L.; Castro, Allan B.; Caplis, Kristine Joy T.; Camba, Kizzylenn N.; Cruz, Jahziel Gillian M.; Orap, Marion G.; Cabutotan, Joroma Sol T. – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2014
The study sought to determine the perceived level of importance and perceived level of satisfaction of college students on 16 areas of student service commonly provided in a tertiary education setting within any university as prescribed and observed by local and international standards of tertiary education. Each area was tested to determine the…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Educational Environment, College Environment, Higher Education
Campus Racial Climate: A Litmus Test for Faculty Satisfaction at Four-Year Colleges and Universities
Victorino, Christine A.; Nylund-Gibson, Karen; Conley, Sharon – Journal of Higher Education, 2013
This article reports on a study that investigated the relationship between three dimensions of campus racial climate and faculty satisfaction with a large, nationally representative faculty sample (N = 29,169), using a multilevel structural equation model. Results indicate that campus racial climate has a large and highly significant effect upon…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Environment, Racial Relations, College Faculty
Soria, Krista; Bultmann, Mark – NACADA Journal, 2014
Utilizing data from the multi-institutional "Student Experience in the Research University" survey, we examined self-identified working-class students' experiences in higher education. The results suggest that working-class students experience a lower sense of belonging, perceive a less welcoming campus climate, and pursue fewer social…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Working Class, Student Employment, Student Experience
Huang, Shwu-yong Liou – Learning Environments Research, 2012
This study investigated university students' perceptions of their institutions' learning environments, and related those perceptions to students' academic aspirations and satisfaction with their universities. A sample of 12,423 juniors at 42 universities in Taiwan was used to confirm the validity and reliability of the instrument: CUEI-S. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Emotional Development, College Faculty
Nava, Michael E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The academic and social integration of first-generation college students into institutions of higher education continues to be a topic of concern for university administrators, faculty, and staff. Students enter college with different background traits and experiences as well as have different college experiences that can either permit or prohibit…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Higher Education, Research Universities, Social Integration
Park, Julie J. – Review of Higher Education, 2009
Using a national longitudinal dataset of college students, this study examines satisfaction with the ethnic diversity of the student body and faculty at traditionally White institutions. The strongest predictor of satisfaction with diversity for White and Latino/a students was the heterogeneity of the institution; the strongest predictors for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Predictor Variables, College Students, Satisfaction
Career Development, Lesbian Identity Development, and Campus Climate among Lesbian College Students.

Tomlinson, Merideth J.; Fassinger, Ruth E. – Journal of College Student Development, 2003
In this study we examined the relationships among lesbian identity development, perceptions of campus climate, and vocational development of 192 undergraduate lesbian women. Results indicated the combination of lesbian identity development phases and campus climate accounted for significant variance in two measures of vocational development.…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Environment, College Students, Higher Education
Rich, Harvey E.; Jolicoeur, Pamela M. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1979
This article compares the standard structural categories of colleges with the "image factors" of the inventory of college activities as predictors of student orientations. The results are that it is difficult to obtain orthogonal "image factors" and, therefore, these factors cannot easily be used in regression equations.…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education