Columbia Announces Universitywide Scholarship for Displaced Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-14
Author(s):  
Lois Elfman
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Author(s):  
Rita Bárbara ◽  
Cíntia Ferreira-Pêgo

Nowadays the younger generations are moving their food habits from the traditional diet to a Western diet, which is low in fruits and vegetables and high in fat and sugary drinks. University students are a particularly vulnerable population once, with the entrance to university, they are subjected to new influences and responsibilities; in particular, those who live far from their parents’ houses are more predisposed to unhealthy eating habits. To assess the influence that admission to university has had on the frequency of intake of certain foods and meals as well as their adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet), self-administered questionnaires were applied. The sample included 97 Portuguese students, with an average age of 21 years, a normal weight, according to body mass index, and an average MedDiet adherence. Most of the individuals did not smoke and the majority did not drink coffee. It was also observed that displaced students consume fast food more frequently compared to the period before they start university. Fish ingestion decreased and coffee consumption increased, in the same group, after starting their university studies.


2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-111
Author(s):  
Joshua Christian Coco

The purpose of the study was to investigate the strategies that university leaders implemented to improve retention of displaced students in the aftermaths of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The universities that participated in this study admitted displaced students after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This study utilized a qualitative phenomenological narrative design in which interviews of eight different administrators in leadership roles were conducted. The findings of this study suggested the conclusion that administrators at these universities seemed to do whatever they could when it came to admitting students and wanted to try to make the students feel welcome. In the end, students were given the opportunity to grieve, and the institutions did a wonderful job in making sure each student had the proper information when it came to counseling services. Administrators at these universities tried to do whatever they could to help the students feel more like traditional students by offering them the same services and checks after the first few weeks of being displaced.


2019 ◽  
pp. 203-212
Author(s):  
Noora Abdullah Ali ◽  
Shailer Abdullah Ali

Identify level of The Future anxiety, in the fees of students displaced by measuring the level of anxiety, on a gauge Abraham Maslow. Analysis of the fees of the IDP students on the fee analysis form. The sample consisted of (32) students from the preparatory stage, the researchers used the psychological security measure consisting of (47) paragraph, and the tool to analyze the fees of students and the (7) Of the technical characteristics, have been achieved honesty and consistency, and reached the results, including. The low level of feeling of psychological security among the students was evident in their drawings because of the influence of the conditions experienced by the student during the period of terrorism. In the light of the results, recommendations and suggestions were reached


2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 297-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Ward ◽  
Kyna Shelley ◽  
Kristopher Kaase ◽  
John F. Pane

2018 ◽  
pp. 1247-1260
Author(s):  
Sandra E. Weissinger ◽  
Ashraf Esmail

After Hurricane Katrina, numerous studies and policy reports addressed the plight of higher education in New Orleans ( and serve as examples). Of importance to this chapter are those works that focus on the well-being and renewal strategies of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the city () and, in particular, the role that technology plays in addressing the needs of displaced students and strengthening online degree generating programs. This chapter investigates the work of one particular HBCU—North-South—that, post Katrina, had great hopes of building online classes and programs of study. The goal, as articulated by school officials just after Katrina, was twofold: to attract the former student population and to develop a permanent, disaster-ready alternative to traditional on-the-ground classes. Data demonstrate that work to build and maintain online classes has been fragmented, declining significantly by 2008 and benefiting students in a select few programs.


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