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College Students Coping with Transition Related Stressors: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study
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Guevara, Lyana – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore what college students' lived experiences were regarding the influence of outdoor orientation programs on their abilities to cope with transition-related stressors at one Arizona college. The study utilized two theoretical frameworks to understand the lived experience of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Student Adjustment, College Students, Outdoor Education
Leveraging Technology to Scale up First-Year New Student Orientation
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Safali Patel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore how students experience the New Student Orientation Experience (NSOE) and how they perceived it prepared them for their 1st semester of college at a large public university in the United States, Arizona State University (ASU). Institutions of higher education are under pressure to operate more…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Public Colleges, School Orientation, Technology Uses in Education
Retaining Out-of-State Freshmen at ASU
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Correa, Kevin – ProQuest LLC, 2017
College completion has become a national priority in the United States. Before students can graduate from a college or university, however, they must survive their first year in higher education. The retention of out-of-state freshmen is a major piece of the larger college student retention puzzle due to recent national enrollment trends and the…
Descriptors: Out of State Students, School Holding Power, College Freshmen, Mixed Methods Research
A Case Study Examination of a Successful Community College to University Transition Partnership
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Phillips, Karla – ProQuest LLC, 2014
A low rate of successful transition and degree completion for community college (CC) students who intend to complete a baccalaureate through transfer to a four-year university has been an unresolved problem in higher education. With more students entering higher education through CCs, successful CC to university transitions have become a critical…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Community Colleges, Colleges, Partnerships in Education
The Graduation Cliff: Improving the Post-School Outcomes of Students with Disabilities. Summary Report
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McFadden, Erica Skogebo; Daugherty, David B.; Lee, Sang Eun; Fisher, Kim W.; Hack, Anthony; Spyra, Ed – Morrison Institute for Public Policy, 2015
There is a federal movement to improve student outcomes targeting some of these predictors in several recently launched initiatives, but where does Arizona stand? What are we currently doing to move the needle, and what do we still need to do? This report prepared for the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council has two objectives: (1)…
Descriptors: High School Students, Disabilities, Parent Attitudes, Parent Surveys
The Graduation Cliff: Improving the Post-School Outcomes of Students with Disabilities
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McFadden, Erica Skogebo; Daugherty, David B.; Lee, Sang Eun; Fisher, Kim W.; Hack, Anthony – Morrison Institute for Public Policy, 2015
There is a federal movement to improve student outcomes targeting some of these predictors in several recently launched initiatives, but where does Arizona stand? What are we currently doing to move the needle, and what do we still need to do? This report prepared for the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council has two objectives: (1)…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Disabilities, Middle School Students, High School Students