Does Involvement Really Matter? Indicators of College Student Success and Satisfaction

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 591-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen L. Webber ◽  
Rebecca Bauer Krylow ◽  
Qin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Student Success ◽  
College Student Success

Enhancing the College Student Experience: Outcomes of a Leisure Education Program

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine A. Jordan ◽  
Ryan J. Gagnon ◽  
Denise M. Anderson ◽  
June J. Pilcher
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
College Student ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Education Program ◽  
School Belonging ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
School Satisfaction ◽  
Student Life ◽  
College Student Success ◽  
Leisure Education

Background: Experiential education in higher education provides opportunities for college student development that contribute to student success. As such, a leisure education program is posited as a complement to experiential education programming. Purpose: This study explored the impact of a leisure education program (leisure skills) on dimensions of college student success, including school satisfaction, student life satisfaction, school belonging, and self-esteem. Methodology/Approach: This study compared 531 leisure skills students with a group of 136 students not enrolled in a leisure skills class. Findings/Conclusions: The results of a repeated-measures analysis indicated leisure skills students fared better than non–leisure skills students in the measured dimensions, maintaining similar levels of school satisfaction, life satisfaction, belonging, and self-esteem over the course of the semester while the non–leisure skills students experienced decreases. Implications: Students who chose leisure skills classes experienced stability and improvement in school and student life satisfaction, school belonging, and self-esteem. Therefore, leisure education programming should be further examined as a mechanism for college student success.

First-Generation College Student Success

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-90
Author(s):  
Chen Zuo ◽  
Evan Mulfinger ◽  
Frederick L. Oswald ◽  
Alex Casillas
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Student Success ◽  
First Generation ◽  
College Student Success ◽  
First Generation College Student ◽  
First Generation College

Toward a Holistic Model of Black Woman College Student Success

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-83
Author(s):  
Felecia Commodore ◽  
Dominique J. Baker ◽  
Andrew T. Arroyo
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Black Woman ◽  
College Student Success ◽  
Holistic Model

Failure to Replicate: Testing a Growth Mindset Intervention for College Student Success

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 460-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Brez ◽  
Eric M. Hampton ◽  
Linda Behrendt ◽  
Liz Brown ◽  
Josh Powers
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Growth Mindset ◽  
College Student Success ◽  
Growth Mindset Intervention ◽  
Mindset Intervention

scholarly journals Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference?

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 632-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Calcagno ◽  
Thomas Bailey ◽  
Davis Jenkins ◽  
Gregory Kienzl ◽  
Timothy Leinbach
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
College Student ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Community College Student ◽  
Institutional Characteristics ◽  
College Student Success

State Policy Climates for College Student Success: An Analysis of State Policy Documents Pertaining to College Persistence and Completion

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael K. McLendon ◽  
Jeremy B. Tuchmayer ◽  
Toby J Park
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Student Success ◽  
State Policy ◽  
College Persistence ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Future Research ◽  
College Student Success ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
College Student Persistence ◽  
And Performance

This article reports the findings of an exploratory analysis of state policy climates for college student persistence and completion. We performed an analysis of more than 100 documents collected from 8 states chosen largely on the basis of their performance on past Measuring Up reports. Our analysis of governors' state-of-the-state addresses, state Master Plans, and performance-funding programs produced several notable findings. Although we had assumed that states that perform better in retaining and graduating their college students would likely have state policy climates that espouse greater support for college student success, our analysis provided some evidence that it is the lower-performing states, in fact, whose policy climates espouse more support for these goals. We also found evidence of rising political support across all states for increased college persistence and completion, although the rate of growth of support has risen fastest over the past 8 years in low-performing states. We examine some of the implications of these findings, and present several directions that future research might take in studying state policy climates for college student success.

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