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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
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Duran, Antonio; Catalano, D. Chase; Pryor, Jonathan T.; Taylor, Jason L.; Jourian, T. J. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2023
Using a systematic literature review approach, this article examines the expanding landscape of LGBTQ+ student affairs in higher education. In reviewing 38 pieces of scholarship, several themes emerge about this line of work: how LGBTQ+ student affairs work came to be, how students experience LGBTQ+ centers, and ongoing organizational concerns.…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Student Personnel Services, College Students, Student Personnel Workers
Kimberly D. Rouse – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Student mental health is a concern across all sectors of postsecondary education as today's college students are presenting to campus with higher amounts of psychopathology than ever before. In 2019, the NASPA Vice President for Student Affairs Census found that student mental health was ranked the number one issue by 750 chief student affairs…
Descriptors: Caseworkers, Social Work, Work Environment, Campuses
Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2021
Investing in community colleges is a central part of the Biden administration's education agenda, with the goal of strengthening America's middle class and opening the benefits of education to all Americans. CCRC has conducted 25 years of research on how community colleges can more effectively educate students and set them up to successfully…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Success, Educational Change
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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Briggs, Peter; Ammigan, Ravichandran – Journal of International Students, 2017
Increasing international student enrollment has been a key priority for many institutions of higher education in the United States. Such recruitment efforts, however, are often carried out without much consideration for providing sufficient support services to these students once they arrive to campus. This article proposes a model for structuring…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Foreign Students, College Students, Student Recruitment
Association of American Universities, 2017
This report describes the policies and programs implemented and reported through an institutional survey undertaken by Association of American Universities (AAU) member universities to prevent and respond to campus sexual assault and misconduct. Fifty-five of the 62 leading research universities that comprise AAU's membership completed the survey,…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Rape, Crime Prevention, Crime
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2019
This paper provides information about noncredit instruction in the California Community Colleges and updates the 2009 paper "Noncredit Instruction: Opportunity and Challenge" to incorporate subsequent changes from the last decade. Since the passage of SB 361 (Scott, 2006), noncredit instruction has seen significant changes, including the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Noncredit Courses, Educational Finance, Misconceptions
PACER Center, 2014
Every child is unique and learns in different ways. Some children are identified as needing special education services to support his or her learning at school. Parents can play a major role in shaping the services a child receives. This guidebook has been written for parents, guardians, and surrogate parents of a child (ages 3 to 21 or…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Disabilities, Special Education, Public Schools
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
Culp, Marguerite McGann, Ed.; Dungy, Gwendolyn Jordan, Ed. – NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, 2014
More than a third of all undergraduate students are 25 or older, and their presence on college and university campuses is growing. However, institutions of higher learning are struggling to meet the needs of, and improve persistence and completion rates for, this significant student population. "Increasing Adult Learner Persistence and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, Undergraduate Students
Cairns, Sharon L.; Massfeller, Helen F.; Deeth, Sander C. – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 2010
The purpose of this study is to document reasons that Canadian postsecondary students seek counselling and to report counsellor ratings of the severity and complexity of presenting concerns. For over three academic years, counsellors at a large Canadian university completed a Presenting Issues Form on all clients (N = 2,943) following the initial…
Descriptors: Severity (of Disability), Program Development, Depression (Psychology), Policy Formation
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Cuyjet, Michael J. – New Directions for Student Services, 1997
Careful observation of African-American male students and the information they provide about Black male culture can provide student-affairs administrators with new theories and valuable information about how to better serve them. Provides a summary of the journal issue, including four annotated references. (EMK)
Descriptors: Black Students, College Students, Higher Education, Males
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Stafford, Thomas H., Jr.; And Others – NASPA Journal, 1980
International students (N=747) completed a questionnaire to obtain information about their adjustment so that special services could be developed for them. Homesickness was their greatest area of concern, as well as housing, social relationships, the English language, and finances. (RC)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Foreign Students, Higher Education, Program Development
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Kroeger, Sue; Schuck, Judy – New Directions for Student Services, 1993
Assesses the accomplishments in assisting students with disabilities over the past two decades. Outlines the critical issues for complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Defines disability and access, and examines ways to organize and structure services, fund accommodations, evaluate services, and collaborate with faculty. (RJM)
Descriptors: College Students, Disabilities, Higher Education, Program Development
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