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Joseph Phillip Husong – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study focused on understanding the circumstances that led to students being placed on academic probation and the effect of a support program on their academic recovery. Understanding students lived experiences that lead to academic underperformance is vital to the development and implementation of academic support programs. Ensuring that the…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, Student School Relationship, Academic Persistence, Student Experience
Straw, Suzanne; Bradley, Eleanor – UK Department for Education, 2022
The T Level Transition Programme is a study programme targeted at students aged 16 to 19 years (or young people with Education and Healthcare Plans to age 24) who are not ready to start a T Level but have the potential to progress onto one following a tailored preparation programme. The Transition Programme is expected to be a full-time study…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Late Adolescents, Skill Development, Student Recruitment
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Prins, Esther; Clymer, Carol – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2018
Many adult education providers are developing career pathways (CP) programs, which are viewed as an important workforce development and poverty alleviation strategy in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, by state and local governments, and by private funders. Based on a three-year researcher-practitioner partnership, this paper uses…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Career Development, Academic Support Services, Federal Legislation
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Zerquera, Desiree D.; Berumen, Juan G.; Pender, Jason T. – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2017
While sufficient methodological training and effective implementation of assessment approaches are essential for successful evaluation in student affairs, those with an interest and passion for social justice may be conflicted. Many of the assessment approaches employed today are misaligned with social justice agendas, lack theoretical grounding…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Ethics, Community Development
Holdren, Sarah Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This single site case study applies the "Transition Cycle" framework (Pollock & Van Reken, 2009) to an institutionally-based, student-run support program for Third Culture Kids. The purpose of this study was to examine how Lewis and Clark College responded to the presence of Third Culture Kid, or Global Nomad, students on campus by…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, College Students
Anderson, Theresa; Eyster, Lauren; Lerman, Robert I.; O'Brien, Carolyn; Conway, Maureen; Jain, Ranita; Montes, Marcela – Urban Institute, 2015
The second annual implementation report for the Accelerating Opportunity (AO) initiative in four states finds that: (1) colleges aligned pathways and supports with local needs; (2) students were satisfied with AO; (3) AO instructors grew more adept at team teaching; (4) colleges struggled to recruit adult education students; (5) states and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Vocational Education, Community Colleges
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Voorhees, Rhondie; Petkas, Steven N. – New Directions for Student Services, 2011
The Common Ground Multicultural Dialogue program in the Department of Resident Life at the University of Maryland is an innovative peer education program designed to teach skills for engagement through exploration of contemporary multicultural societal dilemmas. The Common Ground Dialogue Program was launched in 2000 to provide undergraduate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Peer Teaching, Multicultural Education, Student Leadership
Penn, J. Roger; Cornthwaite, Dan – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1976
Through committees, students and faculty develop policies which affect student development programs. Results of an attitude survey are reported in which students and faculty identify the amount of authority and involvement various groups should have in a number of major decision areas. Implications for the student personnel administrator are…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Decision Making, Faculty, Higher Education
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Calder, William Berry – Journal of the Freshman Year Experience, 1993
A 6-year study assessed the academic, career, and personal goals of 5,300 first-year college students. Data are presented, comparing student groups on various goals over the six-year period, and highlighting several key factors. Implications for program planning based on real student goals (not assumed) are examined. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Goal Orientation, Higher Education, Individual Development
Reece, Alice; And Others – Southern College Personnel Association Journal, 1979
Administrators should be open to student input on problems concerning transfer policies, facilities and course work. Responses were generally favorable towards counseling and respect for intellectual stimulation. Time management was a problem for many students. (JAC)
Descriptors: Program Development, Student Attitudes, Student College Relationship, Student Needs
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Gollattscheck, James F. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1981
Warns that, without careful planning and implementation, marketing can bring about unwanted changes that result in stress within the institution and between the institution and the community. States that marketing must be an integral part of long-range planning and directly related to the goals of the college. (DD)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Colleges, Curriculum Problems, Long Range Planning
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Klaus, Leroy D. – Canadian Journal of Special Education, 1995
An awareness program on learning disabilities was conducted for secondary school students in 24 schools, as part of a 1-year project of Memorial University of Newfoundland to provide a varied and sequenced set of services to college-bound students with learning disabilities. This article discusses the program rationale, its procedures, description…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College School Cooperation, College Students, Consciousness Raising
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McKenna, Jim; Dunstan-Lewis, Nicky – European Physical Education Review, 2004
Support for elite student-athletes was explored within a single English university using Stringer's (1996) Look, Think, Act model of action research. Entry to the ongoing support programme is competitive and participation is voluntary, with sessions delivered every second week after lectures. Based on supporting documentation, interviews, focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Athletes, Department Heads
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Finn, Laurie Lawler – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 1998
Thirty-three undergraduate and graduate students with learning disabilities (LD), aged 16-56, from five colleges and universities who participated in focus groups identified five beneficial services, skills, and accommodations beneficial to LD students: coursework accommodations; testing accommodations; LD staff; peer support groups; tutors. Other…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Accessibility (for Disabled), Attitude Change, Classroom Techniques