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- jcotr-2112
- author: Vianden, Jörg; Berry, Mitch ; Svoboda, Tori
- title: Challenging Heterosexual White College Men to Engage in Campus Diversity Efforts: An Orientation Imperative
- date: 2019-06-01
- words: 7150
- flesch: 46
- summary: First, as Smithson (2000) suggested, the moderation and participants should come from similar identity backgrounds to engender the comfort and potential disclosure of student participants. Orientation professionals interact with college students at one of the most critical times of their undergraduate career: their introduction to the mission, the values, and the culture of their new institution.
- keywords: advocacy; analysis; behaviors; campus; challenge; college; college men; college orientation; college students; conversations; courses; data; development; different; discussions; diverse; diversity; education; efforts; engagement; events; faculty; focus; group; harper; heterosexual; heterosexual white; higher; identities; initiatives; institution; issues; journal; justice; learning; like; likely; majority; male; men; midwest; minoritized; new; number; orientation; orientation professionals; participants; peers; people; practice; privileged; professionals; programs; qualitative; race; racial; racism; research; researchers; responsibility; sage; social; social justice; specific; straight; students; study; transition; values; white; white college; white men; year
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- jcotr-2113
- author: Taylor, Z. W.
- title: Comprehending the Cost: Are Application Fee Waiver Statements Readable?
- date: 2019-06-01
- words: 6416
- flesch: 45
- summary: Given the rising trend of application fee waivers (Snider, 2015), research should interrogate the application fee waiver to ensure it is readable by low SES students in order for them to equitably access institutions of higher education. To locate the application fee waiver statements, I performed a Google search – as many college students do (Georgas, 2014) – for “application fee waiver” and the full name of the institution.
- keywords: access; admission; application; application fee; aspiring; average; charge; college; college application; complex; comprehension; cornell; cost; counselor; data; education; enrollment; fee; fee waiver; fees; financial; form; fry; grade; grade level; guidance; higher; highest; income; institutions; jersey; journal; language; length; level; low; materials; measure; nacac; national; new; number; orientation; postsecondary; private; process; professionals; public; readability; reading; research; sample; school; scores; sentence; ses; statements; students; study; taylor; test; transition; u.s; undergraduate; university; waiver; waiver statements; website; words; year
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- jcotr-2114
- author: Johnson, Jennifer Adrienne; Duncan, Mary Katherine
- title: Sharing College Knowledge: Introducing Historically Underrepresented First-Year Students to the Expectations of Academic Good Work
- date: 2019-06-01
- words: 4537
- flesch: 51
- summary: To assess students’ pre-program understanding of academic good work, all participants wrote responses to the following questions during class time in the third week of the Fall semester: Question 1: Describe what it means to do good work as a student at Bloomsburg University. Question 2: Briefly describe an example of good work by a Bloomsburg University student, faculty, or staff, and how the example demonstrates good work. Why do you consider this example good work? (3) Provide an example of when you have performed academic good work at Bloomsburg University.
- keywords: academic; agwp; bloomsburg; college; cultural; duncan; education; engagement; ethics; example; excellence; expectations; good; good work; group; high; higher; johnson; journal; knowledge; model; orientation; participants; pre; program; questions; responses; role; school; sessions; students; transition; undergraduate; underrepresented; understanding; university; value; week; work; year
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- jcotr-2115
- author: Singh, Shailen
- title: Landing the Helicopter: Orientation Processes for Students with Disabilities
- date: 2019-06-01
- words: 1492
- flesch: 41
- summary: Parents and students who intend to continue forward with their education receive general information on the university accommodations process. Public school students with disabilities typically have either an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) or a 504 plan to help guide their educational experiences.
- keywords: accommodations; administrators; college; disabilities; disability; education; iep; involved; orientation; parents; plan; process; resources; school; secondary; setting; students; transition; university
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- jcotr-2116
- author: Hadley, Wanda
- title: A Sense of Belonging: First-Year Students with Learning Disabilities’ Campus Engagement
- date: 2018-12-01
- words: 4296
- flesch: 55
- summary: College student narratives about learning and using self-advocacy skills. A sense of belonging among college students with disabilities: An emergent theoretical model.
- keywords: academic; business; campus; chickering; classes; college; culture; data; disabilities; disability; education; emotions; environment; experiences; focus; group; hadley; high; individual; interviews; journal; learning; major; newman; number; questions; reisser; research; school; semi; sense; structured; students; study; support; table; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2118
- author: McCain, Jason L. ; Hawthorne, Melissa J. ; Young-Jones, Adena ; Pierce, Benton H. ; Smith, Taylor
- title: First-Generation and Non-First-Generation Students: A Multi-Factor Exploration of Undergraduate Success
- date: 2018-12-01
- words: 8844
- flesch: 46
- summary: Self-monitoring tools and student academic success: As described above, researchers have addressed a multitude of factors to understand the causes behind student academic outcomes for both groups.
- keywords: academic; academic motivation; academic success; achievement; additional; analysis; autonomy; basic; collection; college; college students; competence; data; deci; determination; differences; education; efficacy; experience; external; extrinsic; factors; firstgeneration; friends; generation; generation students; gpa; higher; impact; individual; influence; intrinsic; intrinsic motivation; jones; journal; lack; levels; lower; measures; model; motivation; needs; new; non; number; orientation; outcomes; participants; peers; perceptions; predictors; present; psychological; psychology; regression; regulation; relatedness; reported; research; researchers; results; retention; ryan; satisfaction; scale; sdt; self; significant; skills; social; social support; stress; students; study; subscale; success; support; table; total; transition; undergraduate; university; variables; volume; year; young
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- jcotr-2119
- author: Adams, Katharine S. ; Breneiser, Jennifer E.
- title: Learning Processes and Study Strategies Influential to College Adjustment
- date: 2018-12-01
- words: 7172
- flesch: 43
- summary: They also reflect Tinto’s theory by highlighting the importance of academic and social interactions in the success of college students (Carter et al., 2013). The SACQ was used in the present study because it has proved useful as an assessment aid in counseling college students and in research.
- keywords: ability; academic; adaptation; adjustment; american; analysis; anxiety; attachment; attitude; attrition; baker; college; college adjustment; college student; crede; education; emotional; experience; gpa; important; information; institutional; inventory; journal; lassi; learning; level; life; management; measures; model; motivation; niehorster; number; orientation; overall; palmer; participants; percentile; personal; processes; programs; questionnaire; research; results; retention; sacq; sample; school; scores; self; siryk; skills; social; specific; strategies; student; student adaptation; study; study strategies; subscales; success; tasks; test; time; transition; university; use; weinstein; year
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- jcotr-2120
- author: Littlepage, Ben; Clark, Teresa; Stout, Logan
- title: Preparing for Promise: A Case Study on Proactive Change
- date: 2018-12-01
- words: 6278
- flesch: 36
- summary: Why has TN Promise motivated you to make these changes? Mid-implementation interviews took place in October 2015, after the first class of Tennessee Promise students had enrolled at associate-degree granting institutions across the state. Purpose of the Study This study explored how four-year private and public postsecondary educational institutions, specifically those administrators responsible for coordinating the delivery of new student orientation, responded to structural change, as defined by Buller (2014) and Kezar (2013), resulting from Tennessee Promise legislation.
- keywords: academic; administrators; aid; anticipated; associate; buller; case; change; college; community; culture; decline; degree; education; enrollment; events; fall; findings; higher; impact; implementation; implementation interviews; information; institutions; interviews; investigators; journal; kezar; leaders; learning; legislation; mid; new; number; order; organizational; orientation; postsecondary; pre; private; proactive; process; program; promise; public; recipients; research; result; scholarship; school; services; sessions; shared; state; structural; student; student orientation; study; support; tennessee; tennessee promise; time; transfer; transition; types; universities; university; volume; year
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- jcotr-2121
- author: Rust, Dianna Z. ; Korstange, Ryan
- title: Prioritizing Reflection and Integrative Learning in First-Year Seminar Courses
- date: 2018-12-01
- words: 7573
- flesch: 51
- summary: An independent-samples t-test was conducted to compare the average ACT score of the redesign course students (M = 84 THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION AND TRANSITION 20.71, SD = 4.77) and traditional course students (M =18.7, SD = 3.00). For comparison purposes, an independent-samples t-test was conducted to compare the average institutional GPA of the redesign course students (M = 3.12, SD = .692) and traditional course students (M =2.96, SD = .86).
- keywords: academic; activities; approach; assignments; average; benefits; career; class; classroom; college; course; curriculum; difference; education; engagement; experience; fall; following; future; fys; gpa; group; growth; higher; hypothesis; impact; institutional; integrative; integrative learning; integrative thinking; journal; kuh; learning; levels; number; orientation; practices; redesign; reflection; research; responses; retention; score; sections; self; semester; seminar; significant; skills; students; study; success; survey; thinking; time; traditional; traditional course; transition; university; version; year
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- jcotr-2122
- author: Kline, Boenell ; Duncan, Mary Katherine
- title: Academically At-Risk Students’ Initial Motivations and Pre-Graduation Reasons for Attending University
- date: 2018-12-01
- words: 4642
- flesch: 43
- summary: Student motivations, learning environments, and human capital acquisition: Toward an integrated paradigm of student development. It should be noted, however, that Bartram’s study excluded economic motivations and targeted education students whose vocation is decidedly one of service to others.
- keywords: academic; addition; american; bachelor; bui; career; college; common; data; degree; development; education; enrollment; family; findings; generation; good; graduation; growth; higher; higher education; individuals; journal; kennett; materialism; mission; motivations; motives; national; participants; personal; phinney; pre; purpose; reasons; research; responses; risk; self; students; study; survey; university; year
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- jcotr-2123
- author: Bloom, Jennifer L.
- title: College Students Today…
- date: 2018-12-01
- words: 1211
- flesch: 55
- summary: Forbes columnist George Leef (2013) postulated that college students from 50 years ago were more successful than today’s students because they were self- directed and motivated. Has the golden age of college students passed?
- keywords: advising; appreciative; author; bloom; college; faculty; framework; hutson; journal; orientation; second; students; today; transition; years
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- jcotr-2124
- author: Smith, Tyler E.
- title: Parental Involvement during Students’ Transition to College: Mixed Attitudes and Recommendations for “Ideal” Involvement
- date: 2018-12-01
- words: 2116
- flesch: 46
- summary: In order to maintain strong parent-child relationships, an “ideal” amount of parent involvement must be utilized. The contributions of parental attachment bonds to college student development and adjustment: A metaanalytic review.
- keywords: academic; children; college; development; educational; expectations; helicopter; higher; ideal; independence; involved; involvement; journal; likely; parental; parents; research; school; smith; social; students; success; support; transition; year
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- jcotr-2125
- author: Pickens, Bryon C.
- title: Implementing Strengths-Based Programs for Adult Students
- date: 2018-12-01
- words: 2172
- flesch: 44
- summary: This article presents justification for programs aimed at the interpersonal needs of adult students and details one possible implementation. Research underlines just how the needs and expectations of adult students differ from their traditional counterparts.
- keywords: adult; aged; awareness; college; education; experience; fredrickson; goals; group; higher; implementation; individual; institutions; journal; needs; non; number; orientation; personal; pickens; positive; psychology; research; strengths; students; table; traditional; undergraduates
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- jcotr-2126
- author: Cordoves, Janett I.
- title: Interfaith Engagement and Orientation Programs
- date: 2018-12-01
- words: 2965
- flesch: 42
- summary: • Proactively helping student leaders prepare to welcome a religiously diverse group of students is a needed and critical aspect of orientation work. Emerging interfaith trends: What college students are saying about religion in 2016.
- keywords: campus; campuses; chance; college; common; community; different; diverse; diversity; engagement; identity; incoming; institution; interfaith; journal; leaders; life; mayhew; ministry; new; opportunities; orientation; pluralism; programming; programs; religion; religious; schedule; spiritual; staff; students; support; time; transition; values; week; work; worldview; year
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- jcotr-2127
- author: Beras, Karina
- title: Prime Time: The First 6 Weeks Adjusting, Belonging, and Thriving in College
- date: 2018-12-01
- words: 1843
- flesch: 47
- summary: Students mentioned wanting to meet more people, which proved to be especially difficult between students of different class years, given our dispersed residential buildings. They also wanted to learn hard skills like money management and self-care practices neces- sary for their survival not only as college students but also as newly minted, even if temporarily so, New York City residents.
- keywords: academic; approach; barnard; campus; care; class; college; credit; experience; learning; management; new; orientation; peer; program; relationships; resources; self; series; session; skills; social; start; students; time; transition; weeks; workshops; year
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- jcotr-2209
- author: Morgan, Kali; Lane, Tonisha; Hutchful, Jimmy; Willis, Selene; Clarke Jr., LaFrance; Rivera, Camille
- title: Transitioning, Belonging, and the Black Student Experience: A Phenomenological Study
- date: 2020-05-12
- words: 8651
- flesch: 52
- summary: There are notable gains in access for Black students in U.S. higher education, yet campus racial climates and graduation rates remain a serious concern for this population. The national average of six-year college graduation is 60% for all groups, but Black students graduate at a rate of 40% (NCES, 2019).
- keywords: academic; advisor; affairs; african; american; black; black students; campus; climate; college; college orientation; college students; color; community; completion; cultural; diverse; education; environment; events; experiences; faculty; findings; focus; framework; gap; graduation; groups; high; higher; identity; important; institution; journal; leader; learning; likely; lot; month; msu; need; new; number; office; organizations; orientation; participants; people; positive; programming; programs; public; race; racial; rates; research; sense; social; space; staff; strayhorn; students; study; success; support; team; time; transition; university; white; white students; women; year
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- jcotr-2219
- author: Shelton, Leslie; Thompson, Charles
- title: Fostering Resilience for Puerto Rican College Students in Transition After Hurricane Maria
- date: 2020-05-12
- words: 8614
- flesch: 40
- summary: The psychological impact from hurricane Katrina: Effects of displacement and trauma exposure on university students. Current student participants reflected existing scholarship on the importance of students forming friendships post-natural disaster, as well as institutions offering support such as counseling (Coco, 2015).
- keywords: academic; access; affairs; analysis; areas; authors; campus; challenges; circumstances; coco; college; college students; community; course; crisis; current; data; disasters; education; educators; example; experiences; extrinsic; factors; faculty; family; findings; focus; following; framework; future; hadria; health; help; higher; home; host; hurricane; important; individual; institutions; interviews; intrinsic; journal; katrina; key; life; literature; management; maria; mental; merriam; natural; natural disasters; new; nicolazzo; number; orientation; participants; practice; preparedness; process; protective; puerto; qualitative; questions; related; research; resilience; resources; retention; rico; shared; shaw; social; storm; stress; students; studies; study; suggestions; support; theory; time; transition; u.s; understanding; universities; university
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- jcotr-2234
- author: Ceja, Sue; Kranzow, Jeannine
- title: Autism on Campus: : Supporting Students on the Spectrum
- date: 2020-05-12
- words: 4819
- flesch: 48
- summary: Based on research with ASD college students, there is both a greater likelihood of success and higher satisfaction with college support for those who do reveal their status (Hudson, 2013). This article presents literature on the topic of college students with ASD that will better equip those working with this student population on campus.
- keywords: academic; anderson; anxiety; asd; autism; autism spectrum; barnhill; cai; campus; campuses; challenges; class; college; college students; developmental; disability; disorders; education; et al; gillespie; hees; hees et; help; higher; journal; lynch; need; new; number; orientation; parents; population; programs; research; richdale; skills; social; spectrum; students; study; support; transition; van; ways; white; work
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- jcotr-2251
- author: Lerner Colucci, Rachel; Grebing, Robin E.
- title: The Impact of an Online Orientation Program on Student Success at a Community College
- date: 2020-05-12
- words: 7554
- flesch: 39
- summary: The authors recommend conducting additional studies at other institutions focused on the quantitative analysis of student THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION, TRANSITION, AND RETENTION21 success outcomes related to online new student orientation programs. Researchers and practitioners have comprehensively studied the significance and impact of student success programs, including new student orientation programs (Nguyen, Hays, & Weinstein, 2010; Robichaud, 2016b).
- keywords: academic; action; analysis; attempt; bergen; campus; center; college; college orientation; college students; community; community college; completion; courses; cumulative; data; difference; education; engagement; enrollment; environment; face; fall; garza; gpa; higher; impact; information; institution; jenkins; journal; literature; measures; mitchell; n.d; new; new student; noda; number; online; online courses; online orientation; orientation; orientation course; orientation program; outcomes; participation; persistence; population; practice; program; rate; research; results; retention; robichaud; sample; semester; significant; spring; student orientation; student retention; student success; students; study; success; support; time; traditional; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2285
- author: Witkowsky, Patricia; Garnar, Martin; Starkey, Kathryn; Andersen, Ashley; Clayton, Grant
- title: Approaches to Advising Incoming College Students with Dual Enrollment Credit
- date: 2020-05-12
- words: 9343
- flesch: 53
- summary: This study explored the approaches college academic advisors take when advising high DE credit- bearing incoming college students. Trey found that incoming college students with a high number of DE credits from high school often sought out their entire degree plan in their first advising appointment because they had specific goals or plans for their time in college.
- keywords: able; academic; academic advisors; advising; advisors; approaches; bearing; career; classes; cognitive; college; college academic; college orientation; college students; colorado; completion; comprehensive; concerns; courses; credit; creswell; curriculum; data; degree; development; dual; early; education; enrollment; expectations; experience; graduate; high; high school; higher; higher education; impact; incoming; journal; knowledge; learning; level; major; non; number; options; orientation; outcomes; participants; perspective; plan; practice; preparedness; process; programs; public; purpose; requirements; research; role; school; semester; sophie; specific; students; study; success; things; thinking; time; transition; understanding; university; use; view; work; years
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- jcotr-2334
- author: Korstange, Ryan; Brinthaupt, Thomas; Martin, Autumn
- title: Academic and Social Expectations of Incoming College Students
- date: 2020-05-12
- words: 9961
- flesch: 55
- summary: These results suggest that student support programming should take into consideration variations in student mindset. More research is certainly needed, but at this point, it seems likely that the answer lies outside of the areas of academic preparation or student mindset. Limitations and Implications for Future Research
- keywords: abilities; academic; achievement; act; american; approach; beliefs; best; caucasian; change; cognition; cognitive; college; college orientation; college students; course; development; differences; domain; dweck; education; effort; expectations; experiences; fair; gender; generation; goal; goal orientation; good; grade; greater; growth; hard; higher; incoming; intelligence; interactions; invite; items; journal; learning; likely; measures; mindset; mistakes; motivation; need; new; non; number; opportunity; orientation; participants; particular; performance; personality; press; psychology; r(315; research; results; retention; scenarios; scores; self; significant; situations; skills; social; social interactions; social skills; students; studies; study; success; table; thinking; transition; trouble; understanding; university; women; work; yeager; year
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- jcotr-2371
- author: Manuel, Elizabeth A.
- title: The Red Bandanna-A Life. A Choice. A Legacy.
- date: 2019-12-03
- words: 908
- flesch: 57
- summary: There are multiple childhood stories included in the text that highlight Crowther’s values and his experiences as he emerged into adulthood. As a historical non-fiction novel, The Red Bandanna showcases the life of Crowther leading up to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, where he would later be recognized by his red bandanna.
- keywords: bandanna; book; college; crowther; events; experiences; life; red; rinaldi; story; students; text; values
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- jcotr-2372
- author: Lovelace Habers, Natasha; Goldfine, Ruth Ann; Mixson-Brookshire, Deborah; Hedrick, Alison
- title: Integrating First-Year Convocation into the Orientation Experience: Innovative Strategies to Enhance the Experience
- date: 2019-12-03
- words: 2145
- flesch: 30
- summary: Whether it is the culminating experience of first-year students’ orientation to college or it serves as part of a broader effort to successfully transition students into the campus culture, First- Year Convocation has the potential to impact student retention at college by fostering a sense Figure 4. After years of Convocation ceremonies that followed this traditional model, the authors’ institution successfully incorporated innovative strategies to enhance their Convocation ceremony by collaborating with campus partners, integrating engaging and interactive elements as part of and surrounding the event, and adopting a data-informed approach to modifying the ceremony in order to enhance the experience for attendees.
- keywords: academic; aerial; affairs; attendees; campus; ceremonies; ceremony; college; community; convocation; event; experience; families; institution; orientation; research; sense; students; study; transition; university; week; welcome; year
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- jcotr-2373
- author: Coleman-Tempel, Lauren; Ecker-Lyster, Meghan
- title: Linked Coding: A Qualitative Investigation of the Impact of a College Transition Program
- date: 2019-12-03
- words: 9366
- flesch: 47
- summary: These findings are in line with previous research highlighting the importance of social ties as drivers of success for college students (Covarrubias et al., 2018; Strayhorn, 2011). Effects of perceived social support and family demands on college students’ mental well-being: A cross-cultural investigation.
- keywords: academic; achievement; activities; american; backgrounds; bridge; campus; capital; class; coding; college; college students; college transition; comfort; component; connectedness; connections; context; cultural; data; development; education; evaluation; experience; faculty; findings; focus; generation; groups; higher; hypotheses; impact; income; increase; interactions; jackson; journal; key; knowledge; kolla; lareau; leaders; levels; life; linked; literature; mechanisms; mismatch; new; number; orientation; outcomes; panel; participants; peer; people; pilot; postsecondary; process; professors; program; qualitative; questions; researchers; resources; results; similar; social; social connectedness; specific; staff; strayhorn; students; study; success; summer; support; theory; transition; transition program; underrepresented; university; week; year
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- jcotr-2374
- author: Yao, Christina W.; Rutt, Jennifer N.; Briscoe, Kaleb; Kirshenbaum, Alexandra; Knight, Matthew W.; Buell, Kathleen J.
- title: Navigating the First Year: Transition and Adjustment Experiences of International Students of Color at a Predominantly White Institution
- date: 2019-12-03
- words: 8211
- flesch: 46
- summary: More broadly, challenges related to international student transition tend to center around issues related to English language proficiency, psychosocial adjustment, and social interactions (Andrade, 2006; Smith & Khawaja, 2011). Practices that assist international student transition include a course related to academic and cultural transitions to the U.S. educational context that increased students’ intercultural competency as well as feelings of campus belonging and social support (Brunsting, Smith, & Zachry, 2018).
- keywords: academic; adaptation; adjustment; africa; arrival; black; campus; central; chinese; climate; college; color; country; data; different; education; english; example; expectations; experiences; factors; findings; george; helpful; higher; home; host; institution; intercultural; international; international students; interviews; journal; language; learning; life; like; lot; male; multiple; mwangi; new; number; orientation; overall; participants; people; political; pre; process; qualitative; questions; related; research; researchers; sense; smith; social; sojourn; states; students; studies; study; studying; support; time; transition; u.s; united; university; yao; year
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- jcotr-2397
- author: Reysen, Rebekah; Reysen, Matthew; Perry, Patrick; Knight, R. Dewey
- title: Not So Soft Skills: The Importance of Grit to College Student Success
- date: 2019-12-03
- words: 4034
- flesch: 50
- summary: Other students (more likely to be not-at-risk) were solicited by placing an ad on the Sona website—a research management system—for Psychology 201 Introduction to Psychology students. The Center also leads the University’s Retention Advisory Committee, a working group of university-wide representatives charged with focusing on all of the various aspects of student retention.
- keywords: academic; addition; average; center; college; credit; data; desirability; duckworth; goals; gpa; grade; grit; higher; hours; journal; level; measures; mississippi; non; number; orientation; overall; participants; passion; performance; perseverance; personality; point; psychology; relationship; resident; results; retention; risk; scale; scores; semester; significant; social; students; study; success; transition; university
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- jcotr-2398
- author: Gruszka, Lisa; Witt, Evan; Tower, Erin
- title: Longitudinal Comparison of Orientation Leader Learning Outcomes
- date: 2019-12-03
- words: 3820
- flesch: 47
- summary: In 2005, the university’s vice provost of student affairs presented a set of student development outcomes created during their time as assistant dean and director of undergraduate programs in the business school. Our hope is that this article contributes to the conversation about student leader outcomes in orientation programs.
- keywords: analysis; areas; assessment; campus; change; cohorts; college; course; data; development; experience; focus; growth; hypothesis; impact; institution; journal; leaders; leadership; learning; ols; orientation; outcomes; post; pre; program; recent; research; results; scores; sdos; self; significant; skills; student; study; support; test; time; training; transition; university; week; year
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- jcotr-2399
- author: Lewis, Erin L.
- title: Strategies for Successful College Transitions for High School Students in Urban Schools
- date: 2019-12-03
- words: 2448
- flesch: 50
- summary: Therefore, it is necessary to improve college readiness for high school students as a significant step toward a successful transition to college. 6VOLUME 26 NUMBER 2 Recommendations for High School Counselors and College Admissions Offices To equip high school students with additional resources that support college readiness, high school counselors and college admissions staff should develop partnerships that bridge the gap between high school and the college or university.
- keywords: admissions; backgrounds; career; center; college; counselors; data; department; early; education; enrollment; ethnicity; high; high school; journal; low; national; orientation; programs; race; readiness; research; school; staff; standards; statistics; status; students; successful; support; teachers; transitions; u.s; urban
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- jcotr-2400
- author: Schuster , Maximilian T.
- title: Learning Culture: First-Year Student Transition, Institutional Culture, and the Bubble of Trial Adulthood
- date: 2019-12-03
- words: 8854
- flesch: 48
- summary: Ultimately, it furnished first- year students with a sense of possibility as well as elements of a blueprint for success in transitioning to college life. First, this study fills a necessary gap in the literature by utilizing institutional culture as a framework for representing the transitional THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION, TRANSITION, AND RETENTION19 processes that college students encounter during their first year (Fischer, 2007; Kane, 2011).
- keywords: academic; activities; adulthood; advanced; american; analysis; behaviors; bubble; campus; class; college; college life; college orientation; college student; cultural; culture; data; development; education; error; expectations; experiences; failures; findings; francisco; guba; higher; immersion; independence; institutional; institutional culture; interviews; jonas; journal; kind; kuh; leaders; learning; life; lincoln; literature; mau; messages; negative; networks; new; norms; number; orientation; otr; outcomes; participants; peer; people; personal; point; process; qualitative; research; responsibilities; sage; san; school; second; sense; social; space; stem; students; study; success; support; time; transition; trial; university; way; white; woman; year; year students
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- jcotr-2401
- author: Hyatt, Sally E.
- title: A New Perspective on Transfer Policy: Are Community College Transfer Students Getting an Equitable Academic Experience at Small Private Colleges?
- date: 2019-12-03
- words: 8748
- flesch: 42
- summary: However, it is well known by researchers that community college transfer students report difficulty transitioning between the two institutional systems (Ellis, 2013; Gerhardt & Ackerman, 2014; Harrison, 1999; Owens, 2010; Schmitigal, 2010; Wilson, 2014) and therefore, giving community college students many opportunities to connect to a campus is important. Using an ethnographic study design, twelve faculty were interviewed to describe the culture, the perception of the students’ experiences with the university, and the institutional policies that applied to community college transfer students.
- keywords: academic; access; advising; analysis; campus; college students; college transfer; colleges; community college; credits; data; different; education; experience; faculty; findings; focused; following; gpa; graduation; higher; important; institutional; interview; journal; literature; member; methods; native; needs; nonprofit; number; opportunities; orientation; participants; perception; policies; policy; practice; private; private university; process; programs; public; qualitative; questions; rate; relationships; reported; research; researchers; sellers; sellers university; services; small; student experience; students; study; success; themes; time; traditional; transfer; transfer students; transition; types; unique; universities; university; validity; wilson; year
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- jcotr-2433
- author: Pickard, Luke; Brunton, Julie; McKenna, James; Utley, Andrea
- title: Aiding Transition to University Through an Outdoor Orientation Program: Accelerated Friendships
- date: 2020-12-07
- words: 9114
- flesch: 56
- summary: Tackling these important social transitional issues is a potentially underutilized strategy for universities to improve student experience and retention. We investigated how an outdoor orientation program for first-year university students in England, UK accelerates social group development, which in turn aids transition and adaptation to university.
- keywords: academic; accelerated; activities; activity; adaptation; adjustment; adults; aid; analysis; attachment; bell; building; campus; college; comparison; condition; course; critical; data; development; early; education; environment; experience; findings; friendships; fun; good; group; help; higher; important; intervention; interviews; journal; key; lot; lucas; methods; mixed; new; number; oop; oops; orientation; outcomes; outdoor; penetration; people; personal; physical; platform; process; program; psychological; qualitative; questionnaire; quote; relationships; research; residential; retention; room; sacq; sense; shared; social; staff; stage; students; support; talk; thematic; themes; theory; time; transition; university; way; work; year; yes; young
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- jcotr-2442
- author: Walling, Max; Van De Walker, Dana; Gilbert, Kathleen; Olmstead, Matthew; Lane, Forrest
- title: Student Experiences in an Online First-Year Seminar Paired with Remedial Mathematics
- date: 2020-05-12
- words: 7878
- flesch: 48
- summary: However, the importance of social versus academic integration likely depends on the student and this should be considered when developing first-year seminar curriculum for online students. Nearly 40% of college students are reported to take at least one remedial course in college (Ganga, Mazzariello, & Egecombe, 2018).
- keywords: academic; analysis; categories; challenges; college; college students; communication; community; comparison; completion; confidence; constant; course; coursework; data; degree; developmental; different; education; elena; enrolling; expectations; experiences; face; faculty; findings; following; group; help; higher; integration; interview; isaac; journal; learning; literature; mathematics; motivation; need; number; online; online courses; orientation; participants; perceptions; practices; professor; programs; qualitative; questions; remedial; research; resources; retention; seminar; skill; social; strategies; students; study; success; support; teaching; technology; time; tracy; transition; university; validity; year; year seminar
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- jcotr-2466
- author: Nadler, Daniel P.; Miller, Michael T.
- title: Student Satisfaction With Orientation: A Program Assessment and Cultural Stratification
- date: 1997-12-01
- words: 6
- flesch: 87
- summary: Vol 5, 1, p8 9.pdf 5.1.7.pdf
- keywords: vol
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- jcotr-2479
- author: Jacobs, Bonita C.
- title: Lest We Forget About New Student Transitions
- date: 1998-12-01
- words: 559
- flesch: 62
- summary: Whether we are faculty or staff, orientation directors or first year experience educa- tors, students are our “workplace” and flexibility is our goal. 6 The Journal of College Orientation and Transition about change, getting along with others, accepting differences, and finding a niche, and helping students succeed is about understanding transitions.
- keywords: changes; experience; high; house; new; orientation; school; students; transition; year
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- jcotr-2480
- author: Nadler, Daniel P.; Miller, Michael T.; Casebere, Jennifer
- title: Student Satisfaction With Orientation: Toward A Framework For Program Effeciveness
- date: 1998-12-01
- words: 2647
- flesch: 45
- summary: This trend, an indication of a larger philosophical concern related to the pragmatic value and use of a college experience, relates broadly to divisions of student affairs and specifically to the programming available to college students. Orientation programs are an important mechanism for the transition of new students to the collegiate setting, and often are relied upon to serve as a means for the institution to convey common expectations to new students (Gardner & Hansen, 1993).
- keywords: academic; activities; affairs; age; assessment; cas; class; college; differences; female; higher; information; journal; mean; miller; nadler; new; number; orientation; positive; program; relationships; services; significant; standards; students; study; survey; transfer; transition; tulane; university
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- jcotr-2481
- author: Craig, Susan
- title: Dating Violence: Prevalence And Perceptions Among College Freshmen
- date: 1998-12-01
- words: 3080
- flesch: 55
- summary: ARTICLE Dating Violence: Prevalence and Perceptions Among College Freshmen Susan Craig The prevalence and perceptions of dating violence were investigated in this study. The findings indicated that dating violence is a severe problem among young daters and significant differences may exist between genders regarding perceptions of acceptable behavior.
- keywords: abuse; act; alcohol; chi; college; date; factors; females; gender; incidents; items; journal; orientation; physical; question; relationship; research; respondents; results; sexual; students; study; verbal; victims; violence; violent
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- jcotr-2482
- author: Mann, Barbara A.
- title: Retention Principles For New Student Orientation Programs
- date: 1998-12-01
- words: 2748
- flesch: 44
- summary: New student orientation programs are too often viewed as either a testing and regis- tration activity in the enrollment of students, or as the time when students participate in “fun and games” to the exclusion of academic concerns. Ten years of directing new student orientation programs led the author to the formu- lation of principles to guide the development of these programs.
- keywords: academic; activities; class; college; education; effective; environment; faculty; fit; freshmen; good; higher; important; information; institution; leaders; lenning; members; needs; new; orientation; parents; programs; research; responsibility; retention; staff; students; university; upper
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- jcotr-2483
- author: Borland Jr., Kenneth W.
- title: The Assessment Of Student Transitions And Purposes For Seeking A College Education
- date: 1998-12-01
- words: 2183
- flesch: 45
- summary: The Assessment of Student Transitions and Purposes for Seeking a College Education Kenneth W. Borland, Jr. Contributors to successful student transitions to college must consider: (a) student pur- poses for seeking a college education, (b) transition challenges to student purposes and the successful transition into academic communities, and (c) assessing transition chal- lenges to changes of student purposes relationships. The seminar faculty also encourages and initiates relationships between transition students, classroom facilitators, peer lead- ers, and seminar classmates.
- keywords: academic; assessment; bass; challenges; college; college education; community; education; francisco; freshman; general; goals; higher; intellectual; jossey; levine; montana; msu; outcomes; program; purposes; research; san; seminar; state; students; terenzini; transition; university; values
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- jcotr-2484
- author: Wilson, Victor
- title: A Lesson In Black And White
- date: 1998-12-01
- words: 801
- flesch: 75
- summary: This is the best way to disintegrate the feeling of increased loneliness many students report feeling. I can relate to students of color all too well.
- keywords: campus; college; color; georgia; number; students; university; white
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- jcotr-2485
- author: Greenlaw, Harrison; Kaplan, Scott
- title: Using Compact Discs As A Supplement To An Orientation Program
- date: 1998-12-01
- words: 810
- flesch: 33
- summary: Many college officials consider informational CDs to be a viable means of communication for a number of reasons such as: (a) CDs are popular with students who have literally grown up with CDs as commonplace tools for them; (b) Many students have a home, car, or portable CD player for audio listening; (c) CDs are capable of holding considerable amounts of information on a small disc which is easy to handle and inexpensive to ship; (d) Mass-produced CDs are quickly produced and relatively inexpensive; (e) CDs allow orientation staffs and other administrators to be assured of the consistency of information delivered since all students receive identical information; (f) One of the fasting growing concepts is the use of compact discs (CDs) as a means of communication with incoming students.
- keywords: campus; cds; colleges; communication; incoming; information; means; orientation; programs; south; state; students; universities; university
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- jcotr-2486
- author: Ware Jr., Thomas E.
- title: The Alabama Men's Honors Program: Mallet Assembly In Action
- date: 1998-12-01
- words: 815
- flesch: 49
- summary: There has been much discussion of the impact of residential life on the success of college students. Whatever impact residential life has on college students, the results achieved by the honors residential pro- gram are exceptional.
- keywords: alabama; assembly; campus; college; hall; honors; impact; life; living; mallet; men; program; residence; residential; students; university; ware
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- jcotr-2487
- author: Malmberg, Eric D.; Eddy, John P.
- title: The Importance Of Highlighting Developmental Services During Orientation And Transition
- date: 1998-12-01
- words: 1039
- flesch: 38
- summary: Special services provide student counseling, mentoring, tutoring, seminars, supplemental instruction and scholarship assistance. While the above listings are not intended to be all-inclusive, they are meant as a reminder of the importance of making certain that orientation students are well-versed on and comfortable in seeking out these services.
- keywords: academic; career; centers; college; counseling; developmental; hearing; higher; mentoring; orientation; programs; services; speech; students; testing; transition; university; writing; year
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- jcotr-2488
- author: Jacobs, Bonita C.
- title: Lessons Learned
- date: 1999-06-01
- words: 600
- flesch: 63
- summary: Just as students are diverse in their needs, perceptions, Bonita C. Jacobs, Ph.D., is Editor of the Journal of College Orientation and Transition. As Cawthorn and Ward-Roof explain in their article, “A Survey on the Skills Necessary for an Orientation Professional,” the rewarding endeavor of helping students effectively transition to college is also a lot of hard work and skill development.
- keywords: article; college; excellent; journal; life; orientation; students; work; year
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- jcotr-2489
- author: Nadler, Daniel P.; Miller, Michael T.
- title: Designing Transitional Programs to Meet the Needs of Multi-Ethnic First-Year Students
- date: 1999-06-01
- words: 2477
- flesch: 44
- summary: Using two years of data collection, the findings suggest that multi-ethnic students are more satisfied with the orientation program than are Caucasian students as measured by the CAS Standards. Many of these mainstream activities do not address the unique needs of multi-ethnic students.
- keywords: american; cas; college; cultural; data; differences; ethnic; expectations; experience; information; institutional; journal; mean; miller; multi; nadler; needs; new; non; number; orientation; overall; positive; program; relationships; research; standards; students; study; transitional; university; year
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- jcotr-2490
- author: Borland Jr., Kenneth W.
- title: Parallels: First Semester of College US and First Semester of Study Abroad Transitions
- date: 1999-06-01
- words: 2855
- flesch: 58
- summary: They were then asked to answer the same questions regarding their study abroad experiences (for Experienced students) or their anticipated study abroad experiences (for Preparation students). This study is designed to determine the parallels, if any, between student transition experiences during the first semester of college in the USA and the first semester of study abroad for American students.
- keywords: -12.50; -25.00; abroad; academic; american; borland; challenging; college; differences; education; experienced; freshman; international; issues; journal; orientation; percent; positive; preparation; program; questionnaire; research; semester; sexual; students; study; table; transition; trouble; true; usa; year
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- jcotr-2491
- author: Cawthon, Tony W.; Ward-Roof, Jeanine A.
- title: A Survey on the Skills Necessary for Effective Orientation Professionals
- date: 1999-06-01
- words: 1951
- flesch: 33
- summary: Most student affairs professionals directing orientation programs are entry-level, new professionals. When orientation programs lack creativity, it is often because of the difficulty in making small changes within traditional campus organizational structures.
- keywords: affairs; campus; creativity; director; education; effective; experience; field; higher; human; institution; knowledge; new; order; organizational; orientation; professional; program; relations; rentz; respondents; skills; student; survey; time; vision; work
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- jcotr-2492
- author: Benatovich, Todd P.
- title: The Gateway Program: Fostering Academic Success of the University of Texas at Arlington
- date: 1999-06-01
- words: 1134
- flesch: 56
- summary: Over the full two-session summer semester, Gateway students were required to take English, mathematics, and a newly created three-hour college adjustment course entitled “University Success.” Therefore, students from a less rigorous high school can gain admission to any state institution even though they might not otherwise be qualified.
- keywords: admission; classes; college; gateway; grade; program; provisional; results; spring; students; success; summer; texas; university
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- jcotr-2493
- author: Takimoto, Marty
- title: Campus Transitions and the New College Student Experience: Book One of the New College Student Experience Series
- date: 1999-06-01
- words: 819
- flesch: 44
- summary: Beeler highlights the fact that college orientation staffs often witness new college students with their “wait until later” attitudes come face to face with parents who want them to progress through college on a more expeditious timeline. In part one of his book, Beeler provides a general overview of the changing demographics of college student populations.
- keywords: adults; beeler; book; campus; college; experience; issues; new; orientation; personal; student; transitions; year; young
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- jcotr-2494
- author: Payne, Cindy
- title: Parents, Family, and the New College Student Experience: Book Two of the New College Student Experience Series
- date: 1999-06-01
- words: 869
- flesch: 40
- summary: Reviewed by Cindy Payne While orientation and transition programs for new students entering the college or university setting have occurred on campuses for more than 100 years, intentional transition programming for parents and families is a much more recent addition. Additionally, as the demographics of college-bound students expand, so does the number of students attending whose parents never experienced higher education.
- keywords: beeler; book; campus; college; experience; family; issues; new; orientation; parents; programs; students; support; transition; university
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- jcotr-2495
- author: Cook, Les P.
- title: When Hope And Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today's College Student
- date: 1999-06-01
- words: 1231
- flesch: 50
- summary: Levine and Cureton’s book, When Hope and Fear Collide (1998), provides us with an overview of the students in the nineties. Levine, who has written extensively on students, painted a reasonably bleak picture of college students in the eighties in his book, When Dreams and Heroes Died (1980). Students are less concerned with material gains and more likely to seek out ways to make a difference.
- keywords: authors; book; college; cureton; different; education; eighties; future; generation; higher; hope; issues; levine; new; previous; students; today
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- jcotr-2496
- author: Jacobs, Bonita C.
- title: Big Shots and Little Steps: Toward A Collaborative Environment
- date: 1999-12-01
- words: 539
- flesch: 40
- summary: Miller, Randall, and Nadler’s “Reviving an SGA: A Case Study,” of a student government during its rebirth walks us through a deliberative process involving students, faculty, and student affairs staff. Yet, we make decisions each and every day which affect numerous students and colleagues.
- keywords: big; campus; collaborative; effort; journal; orientation; shots; steps; student
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- jcotr-2497
- author: Marling, David; Bradford, Barbara
- title: Instituting a Summer Supplemental Instruction Program
- date: 1999-12-01
- words: 2177
- flesch: 58
- summary: Finally, and most importantly, students who attended SI sessions dropped or withdrew from the class at a much lower rate than non-SI students. Supplemental instruction students make higher grades, drop the course at a much lower rate than non-SI students, and seldom fail the class (Martin and Arendale, 1994).
- keywords: class; classes; college; course; grade; group; instruction; leader; non; number; percent; program; results; retention; session; skills; students; summer; supplemental
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- jcotr-2498
- author: Jeske, Derek; Rode, Denise
- title: Current Practices in Undergraduate Student Mentoring
- date: 1999-12-01
- words: 1499
- flesch: 42
- summary: Student development. Student development.
- keywords: academic; carbondale; college; concept; development; educational; faculty; illinois; individual; levinson; life; mentee; mentoring; mentors; new; orientation; programs; relationship; retention; students; successful; support; university; year
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- jcotr-2499
- author: Fried, Jane
- title: Steps to Creative Campus Collaboration
- date: 1999-12-01
- words: 3846
- flesch: 48
- summary: Student learning should be of profound interest to both groups, however. Academics are required to evaluate student learning.
- keywords: academic; affairs; american; association; behavior; caine; campus; class; college; common; communities; community; conflict; courses; culture; development; education; experiential; faculty; francisco; groups; higher; information; knowledge; language; leadership; learning; life; management; need; new; number; orientation; paper; personal; personnel; powerful; problems; process; professionals; programs; role; san; service; skills; staff; student; student affairs; teaching; topics; understanding; work; york
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- jcotr-2500
- author: Benz, David W.
- title: Incorporating the City Into an Urban Campus's Orientation Program
- date: 1999-12-01
- words: 973
- flesch: 49
- summary: Because of its location, extra effort must be made to ensure that new students are aware of the resources available in the city, are able to access those resources safely, and begin to see themselves as members of their new community. Personal Safety It is imperative that new students become aware of personal safety issues in an urban environment.
- keywords: art; baltimore; campus; city; college; environment; institutions; mica; new; orientation; public; safety; students; tours; transportation; urban
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- jcotr-2501
- author: Geelhoed, Judy
- title: Capitalizing on Student Interests: Community Service and Orientation
- date: 1999-12-01
- words: 987
- flesch: 47
- summary: When asked, “After your service project, are you more likely or less likely to participate in community service work during your time at St. Mary’s or in the future?,” 96% of the student participants answered that they were more likely to participate in community service. Participants In 1997, 25% of students attending new student orientation participated in the community service activities, and each year the number of students has increased.
- keywords: college; community; interests; mary; new; number; orientation; parents; participants; program; projects; service; students; university
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- jcotr-2502
- author: Miller, Michael T.; Randall, Kathleen P.; Nadler, Daniel P.
- title: Reviving an SGA: A Case Study
- date: 1999-12-01
- words: 1294
- flesch: 38
- summary: Student governance organizations may take many forms. Of concern to the task force was the creation of a general sense of the role and mission of student governance.
- keywords: activities; affairs; associate; astin; college; development; education; force; functioning; governance; government; higher; involvement; journal; new; organizations; participation; self; sga; student; task; undergraduate; university
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- jcotr-2503
- author: Miller, Michael; Pope, Myron
- title: Achieving Personal and Academic Success
- date: 1999-12-01
- words: 669
- flesch: 50
- summary: 36 The Journal of College Orientation and Transition BOOK REVIEW Daniel P. Nadler, Associate Editor Achieving Personal and Academic Success By Trent A. Petrie, Lisa Pinkenburg Landry, and Kimberly Bobinski Edwards Denton, Texas: RonJon Publishing, 1999 306 pages Reviewed by Dr. Michael Miller and Dr. Myron Pope One of the most difficult tasks of collegiate transitional programs is the development of the essential skills necessary for student success. “Chapter 2: Goal Setting,” for example, provides an excellent primer for new students on Dr. Michael Miller is the Associate Dean of the College of Education at San Jose State University.
- keywords: book; chapter; college; course; excellent; fashion; goal; material; orientation; setting; students; success; text
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- jcotr-2513
- author: Miller, Michael T.
- title: New Opportunities, Old Friends, and Leadership
- date: 2000-12-01
- words: 846
- flesch: 43
- summary: Do we really provide training for student leadership? This manuscript also introduces the idea that perhaps one or two articles of each volume can reflect broader student affairs issues to accompany the three or four orientation and transitional program specific articles.
- keywords: associate; college; editorial; editors; issue; jacobs; journal; leadership; manuscript; noda; orientation; professionals; research; students; transition; volume
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- jcotr-2514
- author: Dell, Cindy Ann; Howard, Richard D.; Borland Jr., Kenneth W.
- title: Transition from Tribal College to Four Year University: Emergence of Transition Phases During the First Semester After Transfer
- date: 2000-12-01
- words: 3925
- flesch: 51
- summary: An orientation event targeted specifically on tribal college students and their academic transitions will help Native American transfer students. This grounded theory study provides an exploration of the issues Native American students face in transferring from tribally controlled colleges to a traditionally white university.
- keywords: academic; american; borland; classes; college; data; dell; education; factors; faculty; family; higher; important; institution; interview; journal; montana; native; native american; new; number; orientation; outline; participants; persistence; personal; phase; points; program; reality; research; semester; social; strategies; students; study; successful; time; transfer; transition; tribal; university; week; year
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- jcotr-2515
- author: Boening, Carl H.; Miller, Lara Anderson
- title: Writing Apprehension and Academic Achievement Among Undergraduate Honors Students
- date: 2000-12-01
- words: 2353
- flesch: 46
- summary: The overall group mean score for the respondents on the Writing Apprehension Test was 50 with a range of 29 for the lowest WAT score to 65 for the highest WAT score, indicating moderate writing apprehension for the group (instrument provides a range of 20 to 100, where 45 or lower indicates low writing apprehension and 75 or higher indicates high writing apprehension). Expanding audiences for student writing.
- keywords: academic; achievement; anxiety; apprehension; campus; classroom; college; communication; current; daly; education; fear; grade; higher; honors; instrument; journal; levels; miller; moderate; performance; point; process; programs; self; students; study; success; technology; university; wat; writers; writing
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- jcotr-2516
- author: Dyer, Beverly G.; Nadler, Daniel P.; Miller, Michael T.
- title: Female First-Year Students Preceptions of Orientation Programs
- date: 2000-12-01
- words: 3590
- flesch: 38
- summary: Despite differences in academic content between programs at various institutions, the argument for orientation programs is unchallenged. There tends to be few intra-institutional unifying themes for orientation, however, the Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS) developed a catalog of 20 purposes of orientation programs.
- keywords: academic; activities; agreement; caucasian; caucasian females; college; differences; ethnic; ethnic females; experience; females; goals; information; institution; journal; mean; miller; multi; nadler; new; number; opportunities; orientation; overall; personal; positive; programs; relationships; respondents; safety; services; sessions; standards; students; study; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2517
- author: Ware Jr., Thomas E.
- title: Encouraging Student Success through the Creation of a Math Lab
- date: 2000-12-01
- words: 1280
- flesch: 61
- summary: The method of instruction was left to the Math Lab participants. The first was a simple comparison of the grade distribution for Precalculus before the creation of the Math Lab with the grades from the Spring semester 2000.
- keywords: campus; college; course; enrollment; fayette; grade; lab; level; math; math lab; mathematics; number; percentage; precalculus; results; semester; spring; students; survey
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- jcotr-2518
- author: Rosenstein, Carrie
- title: Becoming an Orientational Professional: A New Kind of Transition A Personal Journey
- date: 2000-12-01
- words: 1158
- flesch: 59
- summary: I also gained valuable practical experience in student orientation and first year student programming. Theories of student development.
- keywords: affairs; assistants; campus; challenge; college; comfortable; development; experience; graduate; new; office; orientation; professional; student; support; transition; year
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- jcotr-2519
- author: Gallagher, T. Michael
- title: Students: Changing Roles, Changing Lives
- date: 2000-12-01
- words: 815
- flesch: 52
- summary: In the 21st century, as America seems obsessed with “keeping up with the Jones,” it follows that most students view education as a means to an end, a free pass to the next level of affluence in the richest country in the world. Historically, students showed a propensity toward learning for learning’s sake.
- keywords: american; college; different; education; event; experience; learning; lives; person; roles; silver; society; student; training
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- jcotr-2520
- author: Pope, Myron L.
- title: Diversity Consciousness: Opening Our Minds To People, Cultures, And Opportunities
- date: 2000-12-01
- words: 1077
- flesch: 44
- summary: The chapter also focuses on the three components necessary in building diversity consciousness as defined by Buchner: awareness, understanding, and diversity skills. Chapter 4: “Developing Diversity Consciousness”, focuses on getting the reader to understand that diversity consciousness is not tolerating human differences, but rather attempting to understand, respect, and value differences.
- keywords: author; barriers; book; bucher; chapter; consciousness; differences; diversity; human; new; orientation; reader; skills; students; success
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- jcotr-2521
- author: Adams, Todd
- title: Managing Students
- date: 2000-12-01
- words: 668
- flesch: 44
- summary: Managing Students may not resonate with all student affairs professionals. Managing Students is part of a series on college and university management practices.
- keywords: academic; administrators; book; ceremonies; chapter; college; faculty; gledhill; institutions; john; quick; students; university
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- jcotr-2522
- author: Jacobs, Bonita C.
- title: Values in the Key of Life: Making Harmony in the Human Community
- date: 2000-12-01
- words: 520
- flesch: 41
- summary: 46 The Journal of College Orientation and Transition BOOK REVIEW Daniel P. Nadler, Associate Editor Values in the Key of Life: Making Harmony in the Human Community By Kent L. Koppelman Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, 185 pages Reviewed by Bonita C. Jacobs Values in the Key of Life: Making Harmony in the Human Community by Kent L. Koppelman explores values and possible motivations behind those values. He tells interesting and elaborate stories as the basis for value analysis and, on more than one occasion, covers multiple issues with one narration.
- keywords: book; community; interesting; issues; key; koppelman; orientation; reader; self; stories; values
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- jcotr-2523
- author: Miller, Michael T.
- title: Emergent Questions for Orientation and Tranistional Professionals
- date: 2001-06-01
- words: 731
- flesch: 32
- summary: His article is a good first step in opening this dialogue further, and needs to be explored more directly in relation to student orientation. From my perspective as an associate dean and the editor of this journal, I have seen an emerging trend of senior student affairs administrators either coming from faculty ranks or reporting directly to a provost or similar vice president for academic affairs.
- keywords: academic; affairs; campus; college; community; faculty; journal; orientation; retention; senior; student; transition
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- jcotr-2524
- author: Pope, Myron L.
- title: Faculty Involvement in Student Affairs: Legitimate Claim or Latest Fade?
- date: 2001-06-01
- words: 3382
- flesch: 42
- summary: As shown in Table 1, SSAAs were asked to rate their agreement about what the faculty role should be in student affairs governance. As shown in Table 2, respondents indicated their perception about what the role of faculty in student affairs governance should be.
- keywords: academic; activities; administration; administrators; affairs; body; college; curriculum; decision; development; education; faculty; governance; higher; important; involved; involvement; journal; learning; making; mean; members; needs; orientation; participation; perceptions; planning; policy; process; programming; programs; research; role; ssaas; student; student affairs; study; survey
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- jcotr-2525
- author: Bai, Kang
- title: Academic Achievement and Retention at a Non-Traditional University: A Study of Factors that Affect College Retention
- date: 2001-06-01
- words: 2440
- flesch: 47
- summary: Additionally, the comparison of the mean credit hours taken was used as a basis to posit student academic commitment. All of these can have a significant impact on student academic commitment, enhance academic performance, and eventually improve retention.
- keywords: academic; achievement; attrition; college; commitment; credit; dropout; education; factors; fall; findings; gpa; hours; institution; journal; non; research; retention; significant; social; students; studies; study; term; time; traditional; university; year
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- jcotr-2526
- author: Miller, Michael T.; Miles, Albert S.; Dyer, Beverly G.
- title: Graduate Student Orientation through a Professional Seminar: A Case Study of Doctoral Students, 1997-2000
- date: 2001-06-01
- words: 4015
- flesch: 42
- summary: Student orientation programs sponsored by institutions are generally geared toward new incoming or transfer undergraduate students. Where the typical undergraduate may be away from parents or enrolled in postsecondary education for the first time, doctoral students are generally coming from the top of their respective undergraduate experiences, discriminatingly selecting their institutions based on academic reputation and national recognition, and already possessing the cognitive tools necessary for academic success.
- keywords: academic; admission; apprehension; areas; class; college; communication; component; course; daly; data; degree; dissertation; doctoral; education; experience; faculty; field; graduate; higher; institution; instrument; integrity; journal; levels; lower; mccroskey; measures; mid; miller; new; newman; number; orientation; performance; personal; point; professional; program; research; school; score; self; social; students; study; survey; time; university; wat; writing
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- jcotr-2527
- author: Gallagher, T. Michael; Lu, Mei-Yan; Hidalgo, J. Francisco
- title: New Faculty Orientation: Creating Transitions That Work
- date: 2001-06-01
- words: 1373
- flesch: 43
- summary: With competitive salaries and competitive higher education institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area, there is a need to quickly embrace new faculty members and to provide them with the tools they will need to succeed. What We Did Under the leadership of the dean, the College’s executive team, comprised of those reporting to the dean, devised a plan to improve the orientation of new faculty members.
- keywords: academic; assessment; building; campus; college; community; dean; development; education; faculty; information; jose; journal; manual; members; need; new; orientation; program; quality; research; san; state; team; university
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- jcotr-2528
- author: Ward-Roof, Jeanine; Cawthon, Tony W.
- title: The Disorientation Program: Fostering Student Transition
- date: 2001-06-01
- words: 1081
- flesch: 38
- summary: The assessment of student transitions and purposes for seeking a college education. A secondary benefit is that of collaboration between student affairs staff and faculty to achieve the goal of student development.
- keywords: academic; affairs; alumni; campus; career; clemson; college; community; development; disorientation; faculty; issues; life; networking; participants; personal; program; social; staff; students; transition; university
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- jcotr-2529
- author: Frisby, Marla
- title: Campus Life Exposed: Advice from the Inside
- date: 2001-06-01
- words: 1250
- flesch: 54
- summary: Cohen does an excellent job of presenting contemporary issues facing college students in an entertaining and instructive style. The column afforded college students with an opportunity to express problems or concerns via anonymously written letters so that others with similar experiences could see that they were not alone.
- keywords: advice; author; book; campus; chapter; cohen; college; column; drugs; harlan; issues; learning; life; new; orientation; sexual; students
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- jcotr-2530
- author: Carlisle, Brian A.
- title: Don't Tell Me What To Do, Just Send Money: The Essential Parenting Guide To The College Years
- date: 2001-06-01
- words: 812
- flesch: 55
- summary: This book holds a wealth of information and tackles almost any situation that a student could possibly face, and it offers parents suggestions on how to handle those situations. Parents generally concern themselves with such issues as tuition costs, the health and safety of their child, violence on campus, and their child’s experimentation with sex, drugs, and alcohol.
- keywords: authors; book; chapter; child; college; new; parents; process; relationship; student
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- jcotr-2531
- author: Cain, Jennifer G.
- title: Students Helping Students: A Guide for Peer Educators on College Campuses
- date: 2001-06-01
- words: 580
- flesch: 51
- summary: The chapters cover a wide range of issues of which student mentors must be knowledgeable in order to be effective. 43Spring 2001 • Volume 8, Number 2 BOOK REVIEW Daniel P. Nadler, Associate Editor Students Helping Students: A Guide for Peer Educators on College Campuses By S. Ender and F. Newton San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000, 254 pages Reviewed by Jennifer G. Cain Ender and Newton’s book, Students Helping Students, is a valuable resource for training peer educators.
- keywords: book; chapters; educators; mentors; peer; students; text; theories; training
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- jcotr-2532
- author: Miller, Michael; Viajar, Patty
- title: The Integration of Technology in New Student Orientation Programs
- date: 2001-12-01
- words: 3060
- flesch: 43
- summary: As Mullendore (1992) argued, new student orientation programs are a time to convey institutional expectations, and subsequently, it would make sense to include something about technology in a transitional program such as new student orientation. New student orientation programs are rich learning environments where a broad number of expectations and resources are furnished to new students and learning communities that include social and support-network environment construction (Twale, 1989).
- keywords: academic; agreement; association; campus; college; computer; directors; education; effective; email; expectations; importance; information; instructional; items; journal; line; mean; national; new; non; number; orientation; overall; personal; programs; range; ratings; responses; sample; standards; state; student; study; support; survey; technology; transition; university; use
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- jcotr-2533
- author: Fears, Gwen; Denke, Mark S.
- title: Wilderness Pursuit Programs: An Orientation Paradigm
- date: 2001-12-01
- words: 3773
- flesch: 42
- summary: Using the wilderness to facilitate adjustment to college: An updated description of wilderness orientation programs. Mullendore and Abraham (1993) contextualized orientation and its relationship with retention, noting that the positive correlation has also contributed to the surge in attention paid to orientation programs.
- keywords: academic; activities; campus; college; community; current; day; education; experience; group; higher; incoming; information; institutions; journal; leaders; new; number; opportunity; orientation; orientation program; outdoor; place; program; programming; pursuit; pursuit orientation; retention; social; staff; structure; students; time; transition; trip; type; university; wilderness; wilderness pursuit
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- jcotr-2534
- author: Dickerson, John C.
- title: Perceptions of Organizational Change by Different Levels of Student Affairs Administrators
- date: 2001-12-01
- words: 4038
- flesch: 52
- summary: Any level employee Senior 4.3 12.8 8.5 51.1 23.4 can influence Mid 3.0 24.2 12.1 43.9 16.7 organizational politics Entry 0.0 22.6 29.0 48.4 0.0 Managing change is Senior 2.1 8.5 21.3 44.7 23.4 really about Mid 3.0 7.6 13.6 54.5 21.2 managing stakeholders Entry 0.0 12.9 29.0 54.8 3.2 More complex the Senior 2.1 6.4 17.0 42.6 31.9 organization, more Mid 0.0 13.6 9.1 47.0 30.3 complex the politics Entry 0.0 6.5 12.9 54.8 25.8 Change vision is Senior 2.1 8.5 14.9 63.8 10.6 translated into Mid 4.5 15.2 16.7 50.0 13.6 relevant strategies Entry 0.0 19.4 22.6 58.1 0.0 Employees are used Senior 0.0 6.4 10.6 66.0 17.0 in change Mid 1.5 18.2 13.6 53.0 13.6 implementation Entry 0.0 16.1 25.8 54.8 3.2 Expectations about Senior 4.3 10.6 23.4 55.3 6.4 change implementation Mid 4.5 39.4 24.2 22.7 9.1 communicated clearly Entry 6.5 41.9 22.6 29.0 0.0 Employees told about Senior 0.0 19.1 25.5 46.8 8.5 effects of change Mid 7.6 28.8 18.2 39.4 6.1 organizationally Entry 6.5 45.2 29.0 19.4 0.0 Employees told about Senior 4.3 19.1 27.7 42.6 6.4 effects of change Mid 9.1 37.9 19.7 27.3 6.1 personally Entry 3.2 48.4 25.8 22.6 0.0 Organization has Senior 10.6 10.6 25.5 51.1 2.1 adequate resources Mid 9.1 25.8 28.8 34.8 1.5 to change Entry 0.0 25.8 41.9 32.3 0.0 22 Due to the fact that limited research exists on the concept of organizational change in student affairs, this study was conducted to examine the concept of organizational change as perceived by different levels of student affairs administrators and to develop principles and guidelines for organizational change that parallel the mission of student affairs organizations.
- keywords: administration; administrators; affairs; barr; change; college; conference; data; education; employees; entry; higher; hypothesis; journal; level; management; mid; needs; new; number; organizational; perceptions; planning; process; question; research; resistance; results; senior; significance; student; study; survey; table; total
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- jcotr-2535
- author: Butner, Bonita; Caldera, Yvonne; Herrera, Patricia; Kennedy, Francesca; Frame, Mary; Childers, Chandra
- title: The College Choice Process of African American and Hispanic Women: Implications for College Transitions
- date: 2001-12-01
- words: 4400
- flesch: 54
- summary: College students were selected because of their ability to articulate and convey their experiences. Studying student college choice.
- keywords: african; african american; american; attendance; better; choice; college; college choice; community; data; decision; dream; education; ethnic; factors; family; females; freeman; group; higher; hispanic; hossler; influence; information; journal; level; mean; minorities; minority; number; parents; participants; participation; process; racial; research; school; stage; status; students; studies; study; support; themes; understanding; universities; university; voice; women
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- jcotr-2536
- author: Pope, Myron L.
- title: Why Knowledge of Student Financial Aid is Important to Orientation Professionals
- date: 2001-12-01
- words: 1476
- flesch: 36
- summary: To gain a perspective of student financial aid, orientation personnel should first understand the history of student financial assistance. As student financial aid has witnessed growth over the past 50 years, so has student orientation.
- keywords: aid; assistance; college; education; efforts; financial; growth; higher; important; orientation; personnel; philosophy; programming; programs; significant; student; success; support; work
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- jcotr-2537
- author: Melvin, Matt; Stick, Sheldon L.
- title: The Causes and Consequences of the Federal Student Financial Aid Policy Shift from Grants to Loans
- date: 2001-12-01
- words: 5580
- flesch: 47
- summary: The history of how student financial aid emerged as a major issue in American education is discussed with attention to why a policy of student financial aid was initiated, what it was intended to accomplish, how national priorities influenced those policies, and the current status of existing practices. Student financial aid touches all aspects of higher education, reaching to the core of American Society and markedly influences opportunities to get ahead.
- keywords: access; aid; american; assistance; available; borrowing; change; choice; college; concerns; costs; current; debt; education; families; family; federal; financial; financial aid; gladieux; government; grants; hea; higher; higher education; impact; income; influence; institution; john; journal; king; learning; levels; loans; low; major; middle; money; need; new; number; opportunities; persistence; policy; potential; private; programs; public; research; result; scherschel; school; shift; social; society; socioeconomic; somers; students; study; support; system; time; transition; volume; years
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- jcotr-2538
- author: Davis, Houston D.; Noland, Brian E.; McDonald, Nicole
- title: The Impact of State Financial Aid on College Participation: Meeting the Needs of the Under-Served
- date: 2001-12-01
- words: 6393
- flesch: 50
- summary: However, Blakemore and Low (1985) also found a positive relationship between a decrease in student financial aid and a decline in student enrollment. Student financial aid and the college enrollment decision: The effects of public and private grants and interest subsidies.
- keywords: academic; access; aid; assistance; attendance; average; choice; college; costs; decision; economic; education; enrollment; fall; financial; financial aid; future; grant; heller; higher; higher education; hossler; impact; income; increases; institutions; journal; level; likely; loans; low; lower; national; need; non; number; orientation; participation; policy; population; postsecondary; programs; public; rates; receipt; research; resident; respondents; results; school; sreb; state; students; study; survey; table; tennessee; time; transition; tsac; tuition; university; volume; work; year
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- jcotr-2539
- author: Henson, Kenneth
- title: Writing For Professional Publication: Keys to Academic and Business Success
- date: 2001-12-01
- words: 1336
- flesch: 58
- summary: Henson also states that a common problem among many writers is the inability to start and end paragraphs effectively. Chapter 7 – “Common Errors in Writing For Journals,” examines typical preventable errors many writers make.
- keywords: article; book; chapter; editor; henson; individuals; journal; need; potential; process; publication; publishing; step; style; time; writers; writing
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- jcotr-2540
- author: Newman, Richard E.
- title: Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports
- date: 2001-12-01
- words: 681
- flesch: 36
- summary: Chapter one, while introductory in nature, broaches three cornerstone or pivotal issues: sport as an integral part of the institution’s educational mission, academic integrity, and a distinction between amateur versus professional sport. The media and commercial connections affixed to college sports are detailed in chapters five and six.
- keywords: athletic; author; basketball; big; change; chapter; college; educational; football; intercollegiate; major; men; sports; time
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- jcotr-2541
- author: Bila, Thomas A.
- title: The Seven Faces of Philanthropy: A New Approach to Cultivating Major Donors
- date: 2001-12-01
- words: 878
- flesch: 51
- summary: Prince and File’s work and research into donor types will provide student affairs professionals a good foundational knowledge of the art of fund raising. Many student affairs professionals automatically approach all alumni as if they were in the Repayer category when they begin work in fund raising.
- keywords: affairs; alumni; authors; business; college; community; donor; fund; good; professionals; raising; student; type
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- jcotr-2542
- author: Bai, Kang
- title: Halfway Heaven: Diary of A Harvard Murder
- date: 2001-12-01
- words: 956
- flesch: 45
- summary: Faced with a different culture, many new students often find themselves at a loss when trying to approach the new society, experience unexpected hardships when adjusting to the new environment, and feel uncomfortable when socializing with people of a different culture, particularly in an environment where others are more concerned about fitting in to their new environment on a new campus than extending a welcoming hand to international students. This is a powerful story, and one that everyone who works with college students should read and be familiar with.
- keywords: author; chapter; college; culture; educational; harvard; international; life; new; students; tadesse; transition; university
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- jcotr-2543
- author: Love, Robin L.
- title: The Five Temptations of a CEO
- date: 2001-12-01
- words: 1273
- flesch: 57
- summary: Andrew wakes to find that the whole experience was a dream as the BART train pulls into his station. Lencioni first explains his principles through “The Fable,” which is the story of Andrew, the CEO of Trinity Systems, a fictitious high-tech firm located in San Francisco.
- keywords: andrew; bart; book; ceo; charlie; college; executives; leadership; lencioni; management; meeting; model; need; number; principles; readers; subordinates; temptations
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- jcotr-2544
- author: Love, Robin; Miller, Michael
- title: Departmental and University Orientation: A Case Study on Competing Programs and Supportive Systems
- date: 2002-06-01
- words: 3348
- flesch: 41
- summary: New student orientation programs are designed to accomplish a variety of tasks, often dependent upon the situation of individual institutions (Twale, 1989). These high expectations for new student orientation programs come from a number of sources, most notably, their high impact potential.
- keywords: academic; activities; affairs; atmosphere; cas; college; current; data; decisions; department; development; expectations; faculty; findings; importance; information; institutional; journal; mean; miller; need; new; number; orientation; personal; positive; programming; programs; purpose; purpose(s; relationships; responsibility; standards; student; study; success; transition; understanding; university
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- jcotr-2545
- author: Shupp, Heather S.; Wessel, Roger D.; Lauck-Barr, Mary
- title: Admitted Student Publications: A Model Using Focus Group Research to Improve Communication
- date: 2002-06-01
- words: 3370
- flesch: 46
- summary: Focus group moderator’s guides were designed to elicit information on the following: 1) timing of the students’ decision to attend the institution and the trigger for that decision; 2) parents’ role in the college decision process; 3) recognition of the institution’s materials in the mail; 4) recall of particular communications/publications; 5) needed information that was missing from the communications; 6) which admitted student publications were most important and least important to audience members; 7) reactions to the look and feel of the publications; and 8) reactions to use of the institutional image on publications. A Model Using Focus Group Research to Improve Communication Heather S. Shupp, Roger D. Wessel, and Mary Lauck-Barr In 1999, a mid-sized, public doctoral-intensive university in the Midwest initiated a publication series to help admitted students and their family members better understand the enrollment process and increase the yield of admitted students for the institution.
- keywords: admission; applicants; brochure; campus; cardinal; college; communications; decision; effectiveness; enrollment; family; focus; group; important; information; institution; interest; journal; management; materials; members; new; newsletter; number; orientation; parents; participants; process; publications; research; series; steps; students; team; tracks; university; yield
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- jcotr-2546
- author: Jones, Penny Fripp
- title: The Value of the Liberal Arts and What It Means for Orientation Professionals
- date: 2002-06-01
- words: 2382
- flesch: 46
- summary: A decline in the enrollment of liberal arts students has been indicated over the last decade, and the assertion is that the degree is not relevant in current business settings (Hersh, 1997). Business hiring practices were mapped for a five-year period using statistical records indicating the number of liberal arts students employed.
- keywords: arts; business; career; charleston; college; current; data; degree; education; educators; employment; findings; georgia; graduate; higher; hiring; information; learning; liberal; liberal arts; major; new; number; orientation; practices; professionals; research; school; statistics; students; table; time; university; value; vocational; years
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- jcotr-2547
- author: Pope, Myron L.
- title: Meeting the Needs of Female First Year Students: How Well Does Orientation Work?
- date: 2002-06-01
- words: 3135
- flesch: 46
- summary: Additionally, these 21Spring 2002 • Volume 9, Number 2 conditions can have adverse effects on the recruitment and retention of women students in higher education. This research has publicized the positive relationship between assessed educational outcomes of participation in student orientation programs with student satisfaction, institutional environment and student persistence (Astin, 1977).
- keywords: academic; association; astin; bass; campus; chilly; classroom; climate; college; development; differences; education; faculty; female; francisco; gender; higher; information; institution; items; jossey; journal; new; orientation; positive; programs; relationships; research; respondents; san; sandler; students; study; success; transition; women; year
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- jcotr-2548
- author: Jacobs, Bonita; With, Elizabeth A.
- title: Orientation's Role in Addressing the Developmental Stages of Parents
- date: 2002-06-01
- words: 2309
- flesch: 50
- summary: Participants The participants of the study were 593 parents who attended parent orientation during summer 2000 and who completed the overall conference evaluation form. As a result, a longitudinal approach to data collection along with the collection of qualitative data may prove helpful in further advancing the conversation about parent orientation.
- keywords: campus; changes; college; day; developmental; evaluation; experience; helpful; issues; journal; mullendore; new; orientation; parents; participants; presenters; process; program; sessions; students; study; successful; support; traditional; transition; understanding; year
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- jcotr-2549
- author: Lu, Mei-Yan
- title: The Critical First Year: Making the Transition to College Teaching
- date: 2002-06-01
- words: 1832
- flesch: 50
- summary: To understand the relative importance of each area in the tenure/promotion review, new faculty need to check with their own institutions. New faculty are expected to have teaching evaluations at or above the university or college average.
- keywords: academic; careers; college; community; education; employment; evaluation; example; faculty; grant; guide; higher; jose; journal; load; members; new; number; process; professional; research; review; san; science; state; student; teaching; tenure; time; transition; universities; university; volume; writing; year
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- jcotr-2550
- author: Rode, Denise L.; Kubic, Christopher A.
- title: Enhancing an Extended Orientation Course Through the Use of Peer Instructors
- date: 2002-06-01
- words: 1520
- flesch: 45
- summary: By demonstrating a slightly higher level of student development, they provided a stimulus for new students to grow in understanding their responsibilities as college students; • PIs bridged the gap between the course instructor and the first-year students, who often were inclined to approach a peer with an issue or concern before going to the instructor; • The experience of serving as a PI can be an important role for upper division students, one which supports the development of self-confidence, connection with the college or university, and enhancement of skills such as public speaking, group facilitation, and time management. 50 The Journal of College Orientation and Transition CAMPUS NOTES Denise L. Rode, Senior Associate Editor Enhancing an Extended Orientation Course Through the Use of Peer Instructors Denise L. Rode and Christopher A. Kubic The use of undergraduate paraprofessionals on college campuses has been recognized as an effective strategy for assisting new students in achieving academic and personal success.
- keywords: academic; campus; college; component; course; experience; fall; freshman; instructors; new; niu; orientation; peer; pis; positions; program; sections; semester; students; time; university; win; year
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- jcotr-2551
- author: Hodge, Valerie M.; Kashner, Patricia A.
- title: Extended Orientation Under Limited Resources: An Example of Collaboration and BALANCE
- date: 2002-06-01
- words: 812
- flesch: 26
- summary: The student learning imperative: Implications for student affairs. 54 The Journal of College Orientation and Transition CAMPUS NOTES Denise L. Rode, Senior Associate Editor Extended Orientation Under Limited Resources: An Example of Collaboration and BALANCE Valerie M. Hodge and Patricia A. Kashner BALANCE (Being an Active Learner Among New College Experiences) is a series of workshops offered to students each fall and spring semester to enhance their ability to succeed in the university experience.
- keywords: academic; affairs; alcohol; awareness; balance; campus; college; esu; example; faculty; learning; personal; positive; president; program; specific; student; university; vice; washington; workshops
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- jcotr-2552
- author: Wolcott, Gregory V.
- title: Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
- date: 2002-06-01
- words: 1543
- flesch: 73
- summary: Mary Jane was confident she would find work, and within one month of moving, found a supervisory position in the operations area at First Guarantee Financial. At this difficult time Mary Jane began to question her career path.
- keywords: attitude; bill; book; day; employees; fish; floor; jane; lonnie; market; mary; step; story; supervisor; time; way; work; workplace; world
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- jcotr-2553
- author: Rainey, Janet B.
- title: One L
- date: 2002-06-01
- words: 998
- flesch: 57
- summary: At the very least, it catalogs much of the raw emotion that new students go through when entering a new institution and program, and this can be an excellent source of conversation for those looking to build experiences and programs that meet student psychological and academic needs. This is a book for anyone to read who is interested in or planning to attend law school, or perhaps more importantly, work with students transitioning into new learning and living environments, such as a graduate or professional school.
- keywords: faculty; harvard; humiliation; law; law school; new; professor; school; student; teaching; term; turow; year
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- jcotr-2554
- author: Mohsenin, Jaleh
- title: The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning
- date: 2002-06-01
- words: 962
- flesch: 41
- summary: In The Knowledge Factory, he vehemently dispels the myth that higher education is any longer a fertile ground for students to learn key knowledge domains (history, literature, science, philosophy) and critical thinking skills. The development of the land grant colleges of the 1860s to the GI Bill in 1944 and the National Defense Education Act of 1958 describe a few of the landmarks which changed the scope and purpose of higher education in America.
- keywords: america; aronowitz; book; colleges; corporate; education; higher; historical; intellectual; knowledge; learning; new; research; social; students; thinking; training; universities; university
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- jcotr-2555
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds
- date: 2002-06-01
- words: 1177
- flesch: 38
- summary: A majority of students indicate a preference for courses that are highly structured with short assignments and frequent quizzes to maximize instructor feedback; • Students learn more when they are encouraged by faculty to work together on homework assignments; • Students overwhelmingly express the opinion that small classes which allow for student-faculty contact and “mentoring” are important; • For most students, the impact of racial, ethnic, and religious diversity is strong and highly positive; • Students who are happiest and most successful academically are those who organize their time to include activities with faculty and/or other students that focus on substantive 65Spring 2002 • Volume 9, Number 2 academic work; and • Academic advising, especially when advisors help students evaluate the use of time and when it leads to a mentoring relationship, is vital. Those conversant with Chickering and Reisser’s key influences on student development, as described in “Education and Identity,” will find similarities between Light’s recommendations and Chickering and Reisser’s emphasis on close student-to- faculty and student-to-student interaction and on the need for a supportive campus culture in which faculty and administrators create small, supportive, personalized communities for students.
- keywords: academic; administrators; advising; book; campus; college; education; faculty; harvard; higher; learning; light; new; orientation; recommendations; residential; students; university; way; work
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- jcotr-2556
- author: Donnelly, Diane L.; Borland Jr., Kenneth W.
- title: Undeclared Students' Patterns of Declaration: Practical and Political Implications for Orientation and Transition Programs
- date: 2002-12-01
- words: 3681
- flesch: 53
- summary: Taking time to meet with leaders from other units and to speak with them about the students who will be applying for internal transfer to their programs provides an opportunity to showcase concern about the quality of future students, to listen to concerns about the quality of undeclared students, and discuss how to collaborate in order to improve those students’ potential for success in programs prior to a declaration 10 The Journal of College Orientation and Transition of a major. Politically, this may strengthen an orientation and transition program’s position within the community and elevate the perception of undeclared students.
- keywords: academic; advising; bass; campus; college; data; declarations; development; education; experience; francisco; freshmen; general; gordon; important; information; institution; jossey; journal; major; number; orazem; orientation; personnel; population; program; research; san; semester; students; studies; study; transition; undecided; undeclared; university; year
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- jcotr-2557
- author: Manns, Derrick
- title: Building Meaningful Campus Community : Lesson from the Field
- date: 2002-12-01
- words: 4402
- flesch: 39
- summary: Research 16 The Journal of College Orientation and Transition shows that student community is more frequently lacking in large institutions, than in highly selective institutions and liberal arts colleges (Astin, 1993a; Kuh, Schuh, Whitt, Andreas, Lyons, Strange, Krehbiel, & MacKay, 1991). Many colleges and universities support a number of student development programs that address the needs of its learning community.
- keywords: academic; access; activities; adult; affairs; american; astin; building; campus; characteristics; college; common; communities; community; community building; culture; development; education; effective; experiences; faculty; freshman; groups; higher; information; initiatives; institution; involved; involvement; journal; kuh; leadership; learning; needs; new; number; orientation; programs; research; retention; sense; service; social; strategies; strategy; student; success; teaching; toledo; universities; university; values; whitt; year
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- jcotr-2558
- author: Davis, Houston D.; Noland, Brian E.; Deaton, Russ
- title: A Survey of Postsecondary Education Opportunities in Tennesse
- date: 2002-12-01
- words: 9031
- flesch: 50
- summary: The model of student college choice explored by Hossler and Gallagher (1987) has provided an outline of the logical steps a student would address in the decision making process: predisposition, whether or not the student would like to continue formal education; search, considering and selecting characteristics of higher education; and choice, developing choice criteria and selecting an institution to attend. A model of student college choice.
- keywords: academic; african; aid; american; attainment; attractive; characteristics; choice; college; college choice; college decision; cost; decision; degree; different; ease; economic; education; employment; enrollment; factors; family; financial; gender; good; greater; groups; hearn; high school; higher; higher education; hossler; important; impression; income; information; institution; instrument; journal; kind; levels; life; likely; loans; major; minority; national; need; new; number; occupation; opportunities; orientation; parental; parents; participation; peers; policy; postsecondary; process; program; race; rates; reputation; research; responses; results; sample; scholarship; school; social; state; students; superior; survey; table; tennessee; time; transition; volume; white; year
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- jcotr-2559
- author: Busby, Ralph R.; Gammel, Hollie L.; Jeffcoat, Nancy K.
- title: Grades, Graduation, and Orientation: A Longitudinal Study of How New Student Programs Relate to Grade Point Averages and Graduation
- date: 2002-12-01
- words: 1672
- flesch: 52
- summary: First semester fall GPA comparison of college freshmen students attending orientation versus students that did not. Previous research supports the promising benefits of freshmen orientation programs (Forrest, 1982).
- keywords: academic; austin; average; college; freshmen; gpa; graduation; matched; orientation; program; semester; state; stephen; students; study; test; university; year
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- jcotr-2560
- author: Miller, Michael T.; Dyer, Beverly G.; Nadler, Daniel P.
- title: New Student Satisfaction with an Orientation Program: Creating Effective Learning Transitions
- date: 2002-12-01
- words: 3619
- flesch: 32
- summary: New student orientation programs conceptually are a device that allow students to be impacted immediately in their association with an institution, and front-loads divisional programming in interacting with students (Mullendore, 1992). New student orientation programs typically fall into one of several categories, including pre-enrollment programs where the orientation serves as a recruitment as well as transitional program and pre-semester programs where the program transitions students into the new semester during a multi-day ‘event’ program.
- keywords: academic; activities; affairs; analysis; campus; cluster; college; community; development; expectations; factor; goals; information; institution; journal; mean; needs; new; number; opportunities; orientation; overall; personal; positive; programming; programs; rating; relationships; services; standards; students; study; success; table; transition; understanding; university; volume
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- jcotr-2561
- author: Zis, Stacey L.
- title: Changing Student Characteristics: Implications for New Student Orientation
- date: 2002-12-01
- words: 2344
- flesch: 58
- summary: By the late 1880s, the population of college students had started to increase though it was still comprised of predominately young men. One of the most important characteristics of this generation is the fact that this group of college students is the most technology savvy in history (Alch, 2000; Hay, 2000; Johnson & Miller, 2000; Newton, 2000; O’Reilly, 2000).
- keywords: alch; bauer; campus; characteristics; chronicle; college; education; enrollments; generation; group; higher; higher education; history; horowitz; institutions; journal; millennials; need; net; new; number; orientation; parents; population; programs; saunders; students; time; today; transition; universities; year
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- jcotr-2562
- author: Branin, Jeb
- title: Evaluating Evaluations
- date: 2002-12-01
- words: 1480
- flesch: 45
- summary: Identifying the Primary Indicators In working with colleagues to re-examine program evaluations, I determined that there are three primary indicators that a participant’s evaluation of orientation should examine. In evaluation questions with this type of indicator we discovered that we got more helpful responses if we sought feedback after each individual session at orientation.
- keywords: assessment; evaluation; good; indicator; learning; mission; orientation; outcomes; participants; program; quality; questions; scale; university; useful
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- jcotr-2563
- author: Snyder, Vivian; Chesire, Donna K.
- title: A Training Model for Extended Orientation and Cross Training for International Students
- date: 2002-12-01
- words: 1056
- flesch: 42
- summary: Denise L. Rode, Senior Associate Editor A Training Model for Extended Orientation and Cross Cultural Training for International Students Vivian Snyder and Donna K. Chesire, University of the Pacific When international students arrive on a host US campus, they usually bring very little, if any, knowledge of the US education system from their home countries. While these students’ knowledge of world politics and geography may be far superior to that of many US students, international students have little reality-based awareness of US culture.
- keywords: academic; american; campus; center; course; cross; cultural; culture; director; international; orientation; services; skills; students; training; university
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- jcotr-2564
- author: McKenzie, Branda L.
- title: From Orientation Leaders to Student Orientation Coordinators: An Orientation Staffing Redesign Process
- date: 2002-12-01
- words: 1493
- flesch: 53
- summary: According to Mullendore and Abraham (1993), “the selection, training and supervision of student orientation leaders are the key to a successful orientation program” (p. 69). Next, while fulfilling the responsibilities of the position, the students did not have much contact with small groups of new students.
- keywords: leaders; meeting; new; ols; orientation; positions; process; program; recruitment; selection; significant; socs; staffing; structure; students; time; training; year
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- jcotr-2565
- author: Pope, Myron L.
- title: Leading in a Culture of Change
- date: 2002-12-01
- words: 1322
- flesch: 37
- summary: Based on his international status as an educational reformer and expert on organization change and leadership, Fullan articulated that if leaders pursue moral purpose, understand the change process, develop relationships, foster knowledge building, and strive for coherence, their overall effectiveness as a leader can be increased. Slow knowing focused on the notion that effective leaders listen attentively and make decisions after thoroughly analyzing situations.
- keywords: book; building; change; chapter; coherence; culture; education; effective; fullan; important; knowledge; leadership; leading; organization; process; purpose; relationships
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- jcotr-2566
- author: Newman, Richard E.
- title: Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports is Crippling Undergraduate Education
- date: 2002-12-01
- words: 729
- flesch: 27
- summary: How Big-Time College Sports is Crippling Undergraduate Education By Murray Sperber Henry Holt and Company, Publishers (332 pages) Reviewed by Dr. Richard E. Newman Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Physical Education Presbyterian College Anyone possessing a vested interest in higher education, particularly orientation professionals and student affairs staff, would be well served to read this book depicting the status of undergraduate education in institutions offering a high profile, NCAA Division I football and men’s basketball program. Part two, entitled “Collegiate Life: Less Educationally Filling,” detailed the neglect of undergraduate education and the entrenchment of beer-and-circus on many higher education campuses across America.
- keywords: athletics; beer; big; book; campuses; circus; college; education; institutions; quality; research; sports; student; time; undergraduate
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- jcotr-2567
- author: Ivankova, Nataliya V.; Stick, Sheldon L.
- title: Distance Education Doctoral Students: Delineating Persistence Variables Through a Comprehensive Literature Review
- date: 2003-06-01
- words: 7588
- flesch: 43
- summary: An exploratory study: Distance education doctoral students in the field of educational policy studies and evaluation at the University of Kentucky. The interest in and support of doctoral students for each other was reported to be an important factor in many studies (Brien, 1992; Ferrer de Valero, 2001; Hagedorn, 1993), although not as prominent as student/faculty relationships and student involvement in academic life (Lovitts, 2001).
- keywords: academic; adult; advisor; age; american; association; attrition; barriers; bowen; characteristics; college; completion; courses; degree; department; dissertation; distance; distance education; doctoral; doctoral dissertation; doctoral students; doctorate; dropout; education; experiences; external; factors; faculty; family; financial; goals; golde; graduate; higher; higher education; important; institutional; journal; lack; learners; learning; likely; major; model; motivation; non; number; open; orientation; persistence; personal; ph.d; process; professional; program; progress; related; relationship; research; rudenstine; self; significant; social; students; studies; study; success; successful; support; survey; thompson; time; transition; university; unpublished; unpublished doctoral; volume; women; work; year
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- jcotr-2568
- author: Layton, Carol A.; Lock, Robin H.
- title: Enabling Tutors to Identify Learning Style Preferences in Students with Learning Disabilities
- date: 2003-06-01
- words: 4275
- flesch: 43
- summary: Therefore, information about student learning style preferences can be used to provide meaningful instruction particularly for students with other learning difficulties. She described student learning as coming from a multitude of intellectual sources such as those described by Gardner (1993) in his Multiple Intelligences Theory (MI).
- keywords: ability; academic; auditory; case; chart; classroom; cognitive; collaborative; college; dependent; disabilities; education; grasha; grlss; higher; information; intelligences; intrinsic; inventory; journal; knowledge; lddi; learning; learning style; lsi; modality; multiple; needs; number; participant; preferences; processing; provide; reading; responses; results; riechmann; sessions; skills; specific; strategies; strengths; student; study; style; style chart; success; training; tutoring; tutors; use; visual; weaknesses
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- jcotr-2569
- author: Hey, William; Calderon, Kristine S.; Seabert, Denise
- title: Student Work Issues: Implications for College Transition and Retention
- date: 2003-06-01
- words: 3098
- flesch: 59
- summary: However, what has yet to be investigated is the relationship between student job characteristics and student job stress and the total college experience. In order to counsel working students, student personnel need some kind of tool to assess student job stress and the relationship of the student’s job characteristics to the overall college experience, including the student’s transition into college life and retention.
- keywords: campus; characteristics; class; college; higher; hours; income; instrument; issues; items; job; job stress; jobs; journal; jsm; levels; life; measure; number; pilot; retention; schedule; school; score; semester; stress; stressful; students; survey; time; total; transition; work
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- jcotr-2570
- author: Howard, Jeffrey A.; Morey, Kristina M.; Briancesco, Laura A.
- title: Roots and Wings: The Role of AttachmentTheory in Adjustment to College
- date: 2003-06-01
- words: 3895
- flesch: 50
- summary: Significant numbers of first year students also struggle with varying degrees of loneliness (Cutrona, 1982), health problems, and emotional problems in the first weeks and months of college (Fisher & Hood, 1987). This initial phase of the study was conducted in August of the students’ first year during Autumn Term – a specially designed transition course exclusively for first year students prior to the start of the Fall semester.
- keywords: academic; adjustment; attachment; behavior; child; college; dismissing; emotional; esteem; experience; fearful; groups; high; individuals; inventory; journal; life; likely; loneliness; model; need; new; number; preoccupied; problems; psychology; questionnaire; relationships; research; scale; school; scores; secure; self; services; significant; social; students; study; style; support; symptoms; theory; transition; university; view; year
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- jcotr-2571
- author: Singer, Wren
- title: The Role of the Campus Visit and the Summer Orientation Program in the Modification of Student Expectations About College
- date: 2003-06-01
- words: 2833
- flesch: 53
- summary: Both programs are ideally positioned to purposively modify and shape student expectations about the university experience. The role of the campus visit and the summer orientation program in the modification of student expectations about college life.
- keywords: awareness; campus; campus visit; college; color; confidence; data; expectations; experience; females; group; institutions; journal; madison; messages; new; number; options; orientation; period; program; research; results; semester; significant; students; summer; surveys; themes; transition; university; visit
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- jcotr-2572
- author: Twale, Darla J.; Schaller, Molly A.
- title: Mandatory Computer Purchases and Stuent Preparedness: Implications for New Student Orientation
- date: 2003-06-01
- words: 4418
- flesch: 49
- summary: Due to a paucity of research on mandatory computer programs, little is known about student technical competence to use computers for academic tasks. A survey of orientation professionals agreed that programs should consider student technical competence, include on-line demonstrations, and consider introducing students to campus technical support services, but they were slightly less agreeable on the matter requiring a technical component during orientation (Miller & Viajar, 2001).
- keywords: academic; access; applications; business; campus; class; college; competence; computer; computing; differences; education; entry; experience; faculty; freshmen; gender; help; higher; internet; journal; learning; level; likely; majors; mandatory; need; new; number; orientation; p<.000; perceptions; preparedness; programs; purchase; research; school; second; services; skills; software; students; study; technical; technical competence; technology; time; transition; university; usage; use; women; year
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- jcotr-2573
- author: Jones, Penny Fripp
- title: Traveling Through the Boondocks, In and Out of Academic Hierarchy
- date: 2003-06-01
- words: 1120
- flesch: 38
- summary: 70 The Journal of College Orientation and Transition BOOK REVIEW Daniel P. Nadler, Senior Associate Editor Traveling Through the Boondocks, In and Out of Academic Hierarchy By Terry Caesar State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 2000, 203 pp. From the volumes that have discussed and theorized unending lists of inequities, Terry Caesar is unique.
- keywords: academic; account; book; boondocks; caesar; campus; clarion; education; employment; exclusion; higher; opportunity; participants; personal; purpose; rate; real; review; scholarship; scholastic; second; teaching; terry; theory; unexpected; university
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- jcotr-2574
- author: Ware, Thomas
- title: Harassment, Hazing, Housing and Other Issues: The Law and Your Campus
- date: 2003-06-01
- words: 1252
- flesch: 45
- summary: Other cases included those covering the scope of ADA, contact personnel for ADA, and accessibility. Other cases involved disclosure of records to third parties acting on behalf of the institution, tape recordings of student teaching activities, and testing for properly informing students of a subpoena of their educational records.
- keywords: activities; book; case; chapter; colleges; court; education; ferpa; gephart; harassment; hazing; higher; housing; legal; liability; records; rights; state; student; universities; university
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- jcotr-2575
- author: Pope, Myron L.
- title: Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Educational Psychology and Administration
- date: 2003-06-01
- words: 664
- flesch: 34
- summary: As there are various writing styles required for varying journals, including the Chicago Manual of Style and the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, the Directory provides specific guidelines about the style and format requirements of most of the included journals. These characteristics of the Directory allow an author to narrow down the number of journals that will be interested in publishing a work.
- keywords: administration; cabell; directory; educational; journals; manuscript; number; process; publication; publishing; review
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- jcotr-2576
- author: Adams, Todd
- title: Embrace the Oxymoron: Customer Service in Higher Education
- date: 2003-06-01
- words: 1053
- flesch: 53
- summary: The chapter on Principle Eleven delves into student satisfaction, and why it should not be used as a measure of a college’s success in serving its customers. Although colleges and universities have long been seen as bastions of intellectual and moral development and thus were exempt from traditional market mechanisms, Raisman suggested that providing good service should be inherent in higher education jobs, as it is every institution’s mission to “serve students.”
- keywords: college; concept; customer; education; higher; institution; principle; raisman; right; service; students; tier; value
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- jcotr-2577
- author: Schmidt, Lisa L.
- title: Civic Responsibility in Higher Education
- date: 2003-06-01
- words: 893
- flesch: 28
- summary: The case is clearly made for being concerned about college students’ attitudes about civic engagement and the challenges faced in addressing civic responsibility. Part three focused on the intersections that exist between civic education and other social sectors such as the media, public education at the primary and secondary levels, and the special challenges to civic and community engagement posed by the digital age and the move toward the on-line 80 The Journal of College Orientation and Transition campus.
- keywords: book; challenges; civic; college; community; education; ehrlich; engagement; higher; initiatives; institutions; leadership; responsibility; students; thomas; university
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- jcotr-2578
- author: Ray, Darrell C.
- title: College Rules! How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College
- date: 2003-06-01
- words: 1146
- flesch: 45
- summary: There has also been increased research on the adaptation to and ultimately the retention of college students. Many students achieved academic success in high school through route memorization, but have failed to master the ability of information integration.
- keywords: academic; authors; campus; chapters; college; education; high; higher; information; learning; preparation; resources; school; students; study; success; text; time; transition; understanding
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- jcotr-2579
- author: Tremblay, Christopher W.
- title: Making the Most of College Revisited
- date: 2003-06-01
- words: 1195
- flesch: 50
- summary: Richard Light’s Making the Most of College is a text that contains findings, insights and wisdom from college students about the role colleges play and should be playing in helping students maximize their college experience. While the findings may seem basic upon first review, they are grounded on extensive conversations from hundreds of college students.
- keywords: academic; book; chapter; classroom; college; diversity; educational; experience; faculty; help; impact; light; living; number; orientation; students; transition; undergraduate; writing
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- jcotr-2580
- author: Hicks, Terence
- title: First-Generation and Non-First-Generation Pre-College Students' Expectations and Perceptions About Attending College
- date: 2003-12-01
- words: 5146
- flesch: 60
- summary: Hicks (2002) indicated that college instructors, counselors, academic support teams, and administrators should be aware that college students, first generation or second- generation, who perceive a positive family involvement in their college experiences are likely to possess more information about college and to be more successful in college than those who do not. Over the past 50 years, professionals have attempted to improve the academic performance of college students through specially designed programs and courses, such as extended freshman orientations, transition seminars, and study skills courses (Murtuza & Ketkar, 1995).
- keywords: academic; college; college students; courses; education; expectations; friends; generation; generation college; generation pre; high; instructors; item; journal; likely; need; new; non; orientation; peek; perceptions; personal; post; pre; programs; responses; school; skills; social; students; study; summer; table; test; transition; university; week; year
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- jcotr-2581
- author: Branch, Katie; Taylor, Adrienne; Douglas, James
- title: Identifying the Merits of Sophomore Involvement in New Student Orientation
- date: 2003-12-01
- words: 4256
- flesch: 52
- summary: While some may argue that it does not make any difference whether the mentors involved with the NSS are sophomores, juniors, or seniors, the continuation of using sophomore students is recommended for several reasons. From the data obtained via this study, we found that sophomore students were able to relate to the new students because only a year had passed since they were in their first year.
- keywords: academic; campus; class; college; coordinator; data; expectations; experience; faculty; focus; freshman; group; impact; involvement; journal; member; mentors; new; nss; orientation; overall; participants; positive; process; program; questions; role; schreiner; sections; semester; seminar; smp; sophomore; staff; state; students; themes; transition; university; year; year students
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- jcotr-2582
- author: Young Jr., W. Wayne; Stick, Sheldon L.
- title: The New Generation of College Students: Is Higher Education Ready?
- date: 2003-12-01
- words: 3848
- flesch: 55
- summary: Thus it is not a surprise the next generation of college students is a population worth studying and as such, much is being written about them (Howe & Strauss, 2000; Howe & Strauss 1998, Howe & Strauss, 1992; Tapscott, 1998; Zoba, 1999). The challenge to the higher education institution, then, becomes, one of not just providing technology for use by new students, but doing so in such a way that it both builds upon previous knowledge and experience, and is used in a way that expands critical thinking skills.
- keywords: america; attention; campus; century; college; community; critical; customer; different; education; experience; faculty; future; generation; great; higher; higher education; howe; important; institutions; instruction; internet; iste; journal; learning; levine; millennials; miller; needs; new; number; orientation; parental; parents; past; personal; postsecondary; programs; quality; question; ready; savvy; school; society; standards; state; strauss; students; tapscott; technology; time; transition; university; york; zoba
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- jcotr-2583
- author: Hadley, Wanda M.; Twale, Darla J.; Evans, James
- title: First-Year Students with Specific Learning Disabilities: Transition Adjustment to Academic Expectations
- date: 2003-12-01
- words: 5617
- flesch: 46
- summary: Preparing high school students with learning disabilities for the transition to postsecondary education: Teaching the skills of self-determination. Advising high school students with learning disabilities.
- keywords: academic; accommodations; advocacy; assignments; autonomy; brown; business; campus; chickering; class; classes; college; comments; competence; data; development; disabilities; disability; education; emotions; environment; faculty; female; focus; group; high; higher; independence; individual; information; interviews; journal; k-12; learning; need; orientation; postsecondary; problems; professors; question; reading; research; school; self; services; skills; students; study; support; time; transition; university; vector; work; year
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- jcotr-2584
- author: Newman, Richard E.; Miller, Michael T.
- title: Effective Orientation Strategies for Student Athletes Participating in NCAA Division III and NAIA Football Programs
- date: 2003-12-01
- words: 4117
- flesch: 43
- summary: Orientation of Student-Athletes Some form of new student orientation program is in place at virtually every college and university in America, and these programs are broad in scope. What college students say about intercollegiate athletics: A survey of attitudes and beliefs.
- keywords: academic; activities; activity; affairs; athletes; athletic; basketball; behavior; campus; class; coaches; college; division; education; effective; expectations; football; group; higher; iii; institutional; journal; life; mean; miller; nadler; naia; ncaa; new; number; orientation; participation; personal; players; president; programs; rating; round; season; second; sports; strategies; student; study; support; team; transition; university; volume
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- jcotr-2585
- author: Pivk, Helen Khalouyan
- title: Educational Transition and Adult Re-entry Programs
- date: 2003-12-01
- words: 1117
- flesch: 53
- summary: The Needs of Re-entry Students The needs of re-entry students in college are as complex as their reasons for returning to school after a short or long absence. The Benefits of Attending a Community College Community colleges often offer a warm atmosphere for adult re-entry students.
- keywords: adult; career; college; community; educational; entry; needs; parents; program; school; services; single; students; support; transition; valley; west; women
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- jcotr-2586
- author: McCarthy, Kelly
- title: Innovative Collaboration: Transforming a University's Orientation Program
- date: 2003-12-01
- words: 1123
- flesch: 40
- summary: At the point at which the on-line orientation was ready to go “live,” the Board of Governors (BOG) degree program advisers were brought in to discuss how BOG students could help pilot the program. Add to that a population of students who are all commuters, mostly nontraditional students who attend an upper-division university, and this challenge becomes monumental.
- keywords: development; dsp; exams; line; mandatory; orientation; pilot; placement; process; proficiency; program; self; session; staff; students; university; writing
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- jcotr-2587
- author: Tigue, John W.
- title: Using Memory to Foster Community Among New Students
- date: 2003-12-01
- words: 1341
- flesch: 65
- summary: As professionals who teach or work with new students a sense of community and belonging can be promoted by learning their names and helping them learn and recall the names of their peers. Developing Relationships and Community for New Students Higher education scholars such as Ernest Boyer, Alexander Astin, Laura Rendon, and Nancy Schlossberg have highlighted the importance of building community and valuing new students in their early days on campus.
- keywords: academic; astin; ball; boyer; campbell; campus; class; college; community; faculty; group; learning; names; new; person; rendon; schlossberg; staff; students; techniques
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- jcotr-2588
- author: Rau, Delia A.
- title: The Educated Student: Getting the Most Out of Your College Years
- date: 2003-12-01
- words: 1285
- flesch: 56
- summary: Because maintaining high grades is such an important issue to many students, Labunski spent an entire chapter attempting to show students that good grades are not an indicator of a good education. Labunski advised students to take advising and registration into their own hands, and not to depend on a campus advisor to make sure he or she is registered in the correct classes.
- keywords: advice; book; campus; chapter; class; classes; college; education; issues; labunski; major; number; professors; students; time; years
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- jcotr-2589
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: Academic Administrator's Guide to Budgets and Financial Management
- date: 2003-12-01
- words: 999
- flesch: 44
- summary: Assessing the capabilities of staff who may have interest and expertise in financial areas, anticipating problems before crises occur, and managing change all are key skills for new budget managers, according to Barr. As one who has considerable expertise in financial management in higher education, Barr points out some common pitfalls for new budget managers, including overestimat- ing revenue, postponing problems, failing to ask for help, failing to identify hidden costs, failing to identify multi-year consequences, and “assuming the good times will continue” (p. 86).
- keywords: barr; budget; chapter; financial; fiscal; guide; management; managers; monograph; new; orientation; problems; skills; unit; volume; year
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- jcotr-2590
- author: Williams, Charla T.
- title: How Minority Students Experience College
- date: 2003-12-01
- words: 704
- flesch: 48
- summary: Students spoke freely concerning their places as minority students in the predominantly white institutions they attend. 71Fall 2003 • Volume 11, Number 1 How Minority Students Experience College Edited by Lemuel Watson, Melvin Terrell, Doris Wright, Fred Bonner, Michael Cuyjet, James Gold, and Dawn Person Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing, 2002, 160 pages Reviewed by Charla T. Williams University of Alabama Higher education professionals can forget or ignore the needs of minority students.
- keywords: authors; book; college; comments; institutions; methods; minority; multiculturalism; research; students
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- jcotr-2591
- author: King, Tara M.; Wessel, Roger D.
- title: Impact of Admitted Student Programs on Matriculation and Retention
- date: 2004-06-01
- words: 3094
- flesch: 45
- summary: The purpose of this study was to determine if program participants in admitted student programs matriculated and persisted at greater rates than admitted students who did not participate in admitted student programs. Did admitted students who participated in admitted student programs (pre-enrollment programs as defined by Perigo and Upcraft, 1989) matriculate and persist into the second semester of study at greater rates than students who did not participate in admitted student programs?
- keywords: admissions; campus; college; day; enrollment; environment; fit; greater; hall; institution; journal; matriculation; new; orientation; participants; perigo; persistence; programs; rate; research; residence; retention; semester; student; student programs; study; transition; university; upcraft
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- jcotr-2592
- author: Manns, Derrick
- title: Private Higher Education Transfer: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle
- date: 2004-06-01
- words: 2834
- flesch: 40
- summary: Low levels of student involvement, limited socialization, limited interaction outside of class, and student apathy, produce a lack of student community (Astin, 1993). Transfer students pursuing their first baccalaureate degree at Madonna University must complete the requirements for general education, the desired major, including a minimum of 120 total semester credit hours.
- keywords: admissions; agreement; arts; association; campus; college; community; courses; credit; degree; education; enrollment; general; guides; higher; institutions; involvement; learning; level; liberal; macrao; madonna; madonna university; major; making; meeting; michigan; needs; number; private; recruitment; registrars; requirements; service; social; students; time; transfer; transition; universities; university; work; year
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- jcotr-2593
- author: Haulmark, Myra; Williams, Peter
- title: Designing Orientation for a New Audience and Learning Environment: Moving the College Experience Course Online
- date: 2004-06-01
- words: 3125
- flesch: 53
- summary: While the 25Spring 2004 • Volume 11, Number 2 design team was constrained by the one-hour credit in the number of topics covered, it is recommended that topics in online orientation course focus on many of the issues mentioned above in order to address holistically the transition that older online students are making when embarking on a college education. The analysis of the learner demographic data revealed a notable difference in the age distribution between online students and non-online students.
- keywords: adult; age; campus; college; content; course; critical; design; development; environment; experience; faculty; fall; female; goals; issues; learners; learning; life; majority; management; new; number; objectives; online; orientation; process; rsu; skills; stress; students; team; time; topics; traditional; use; years
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- jcotr-2594
- author: Szafran, Robert F.; Clipson, Timothy
- title: Open Versus Restricted Enrollment First-Year Seminars: Do Beginning College Students Benefit From Being With Like-Minded Students?
- date: 2004-06-01
- words: 2980
- flesch: 49
- summary: While most first-year seminars bring together students from many different academic majors and interests, many schools designate all or at least some of their sections for students who share some common trait, often the same academic major (National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2002). Students with different background characteristics and students in different majors often differ substantially and significantly in terms of academic outcomes, but whether those students enroll in open or restricted sections of the first-year seminar seems to matter very little. 31Spring 2004 • Volume 11, Number 2
- keywords: academic; analysis; average; background; characteristics; college; community; effect; enrollment; faculty; gpa; grade; greater; higher; journal; likely; major; n.s; open; persistence; point; positive; rank; restricted; retention; sat; school; sections; semester; seminar; significant; students; study; table; transition; university; volume; year
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- jcotr-2595
- author: Nadler, Daniel P.; Miller, Michael T.; Dyer, Beverly G.
- title: A Longitudinal Analysis of Standards Used to Evaluate New Student Orientation at a Case Institution
- date: 2004-06-01
- words: 3178
- flesch: 49
- summary: The content of new student orientation programs has been a frequent topic for student affairs professionals during the past three decades (Gardner & Hansen, 1993). The conversation became so relevant that the Commission for the Advancement of Standards (CAS) worked with a committee of senior student affairs professionals to identify core standards for new student orientation programs.
- keywords: academic; campus; cas; case; college; data; education; faculty; higher; information; institution; items; journal; life; mean; miller; new; new student; number; orientation; overall; positive; programs; ratings; relationships; retention; standards; student; student orientation; study; survey; table; transition; university; volume; year
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- jcotr-2596
- author: Colella, Christine; Schweitzer, Joanne
- title: Freshman Success: A Challenge for Educators
- date: 2004-06-01
- words: 1658
- flesch: 52
- summary: The format utilized at the University of Cincinnati could be adapted by any major or discipline to improve student success. Based on research at the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience, students are more likely to succeed if certain strategies for success are followed (Gardner & Jewler, 2001).
- keywords: academic; college; course; experience; faculty; freshman; gardner; group; health; life; major; management; need; new; nurses; nursing; opportunities; profession; role; strategies; students; success; team; time; ucnc; year
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- jcotr-2597
- author: Lang, Melissa E.
- title: The Need for Graduate Orientation
- date: 2004-06-01
- words: 960
- flesch: 44
- summary: A strong orientation program for graduate students can be a powerful tool in reducing the fear and apprehension of new students, and has the potential to not only improve retention, but improve the overall educational experience. Yet, the goals for graduate student orientation, much like those for undergraduates, are strikingly similar: helping students adjust academically and personally, aiding families in the adjustment, and providing the tools to be successful in and out of the classroom.
- keywords: academic; affairs; education; experience; graduate; needs; new; orientation; process; programs; students; undergraduate; university
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- jcotr-2598
- author: Ray, Darrell C.
- title: Students Helping Students: Navigating Your Freshman Year
- date: 2004-06-01
- words: 1054
- flesch: 52
- summary: 52 The Journal of College Orientation and Transition BOOK REVIEW Daniel P. Nadler, Senior Associate Editor Students Helping Students: Navigating Your Freshman Year By Allison Lombardo Published by Natavi Guides, New York 2003, 144 pages Reviewed by Darrell C. Ray University of Georgia This latest edition in the “Students Helping Students” series presents realistic steps to having a successful first year of college. Though not divided into chapters, the text consists of an introduction; eleven focus areas students will face with corresponding subsections, inspirational quotes, words of wisdom from student affairs practitioners, and additional resources.
- keywords: campus; college; experience; high; home; life; making; new; orientation; resources; school; section; students; text; topics; transition; understanding; year
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- jcotr-2599
- author: Carlisle, Brian A.
- title: You're On Your Own (But I'm Here If You Need Me): Mentoring Your Child During The College Years
- date: 2004-06-01
- words: 1179
- flesch: 63
- summary: While the book is primarily written for parents, each chapter includes a “Quick Tips for Students” section with advice on a multitude of topics. During this process, the relationship between parents and students change.
- keywords: author; book; campus; chapter; child; college; information; issues; life; new; parents; questions; savage; students; transition; year
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- jcotr-2600
- author: Lewis, Hallie K.
- title: Critical Thinking: A Campus Life Casebook (2nd ed.)
- date: 2004-06-01
- words: 1141
- flesch: 44
- summary: By using the fictional campus of Cromwell College as the setting, Picciotto helps familiarize student readers with “a set of techniques and approaches that will enable [them] to examine critically…the everyday events of college life.” In a deceptively simple format, Picciotto presents college students with a step-by-step method for analyzing all angles of an argument or situation before making the decision to act.
- keywords: 2nd; angelica; argument; book; boz; campus; case; casebook; chapter; college; critical; cromwell; life; parents; picciotto; reader; scenarios; step; students; thinking
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- jcotr-2601
- author: Burger, Jessica R.
- title: Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds
- date: 2004-06-01
- words: 1149
- flesch: 51
- summary: Today, many students state that it is more beneficial to study together because of the community learning that occurs. 59Spring 2004 • Volume 11, Number 2 Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds By Richard J. Light Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001, 242 pages Reviewed by Jessica R. Burger University of Arkansas Making the Most of College:
- keywords: book; chapter; college; dean; diversity; education; experience; faculty; higher; learning; light; need; personal; points; research; senior; students
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- jcotr-2603
- author: Hadley, Wanda M.
- title: The Transition and Adjustment to Academic Expectations of First-Year Students with Specific Learning Disabilities: The Initial Follow-Up Study
- date: 2004-12-01
- words: 5
- flesch: 83
- summary: Page 16.jpeg Page 16.pdf 12.1.12.pdf
- keywords: page
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- jcotr-2604
- author: Smith, Tonisha M.; Frierson, Henry T.
- title: Introducing Them to Research: How Do Students New to Research and Participating in a Summer Research Program Perceive Research?
- date: 2004-12-01
- words: 6
- flesch: 45
- summary: Page 34 Binder1.pdf Page 28.pdf 12.1.24.pdf
- keywords: page
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- jcotr-2605
- author: Ibrahima, Poda; Brescia, William; Murry, John; Miller, Michael
- title: Orientation Issues for Distributed Learning Programs in Graduate Education
- date: 2004-12-01
- words: 5
- flesch: 83
- summary: Page 38.jpeg Page 38.pdf 12.1.38.pdf
- keywords: page
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- jcotr-2608
- author: Schnell, Carolyn A.; Venette, Patricia A.
- title: On-Line Presentation of a First Year Seminar
- date: 2004-12-01
- words: 5
- flesch: 83
- summary: Page 55.jpeg Page 55.pdf 12.1.55.pdf
- keywords: page
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- jcotr-2612
- author: K. Dalgarn, Dr. Melinda
- title: Smart Start-A Survival Guide for First Year College Students (And Their Parents Too)
- date: 2004-12-01
- words: 168
- flesch: 91
- summary: Cover.jpeg S11um Sran dedicates a ch�tcr to those fml year srudc.ms who li\'e off-campus and recognizes the 1,1niquc challenges and oppottuniric� with wftich lhey must oontc.nd. MoM ,�Ml.me dual mks as studen.1/emp1oyec. J�� of pultlng.
- keywords: campus; faculty; lhey; oontc.nd
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- jcotr-2616
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: Editor's Perspective
- date: 2005-06-01
- words: 600
- flesch: 55
- summary: Under the able editorship of Bonita C. Jacobs of the University of North Texas, and a team of respected associate editors with strong experience in the field of Orientation, the Journal of College Orientation and Transition was revitalized and has been continuously published since Fall 1997. NODA Journal 1(1).
- keywords: articles; association; college; editor; jacobs; journal; noda; orientation; transition
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- jcotr-2617
- author: Lingren, Beth M.; Keim, Marybelle C.
- title: Academic, Out-of-Classroom Experiences and Overall Adjustment of Freshman Students at a Midwestern University
- date: 2005-06-01
- words: 3666
- flesch: 43
- summary: Emotional, social, and academic adjustment of college students: A longitudinal study of retention. Findings were compared with data from peer institution students (n=2,734) who also had completed the YFCY.
- keywords: academic; adjustment; categories; classroom; clubs; clusters; college; community; course; demands; education; experiences; faculty; female; freshman; greater; groups; higher; institutions; journal; learning; life; midwestern; midwestern students; orientation; overall; p<.0001; pascarella; peer; persistence; race; sense; social; students; study; success; terenzini; university; variables; year
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- jcotr-2618
- author: Wessel, Roger D.; Reed, Jennifer L.
- title: Incorporating Health Care, English Proficiency, Social Integration, and Career Planning in Orientation Programming for New International Students
- date: 2005-06-01
- words: 4403
- flesch: 44
- summary: The number of international students studying in the United States steadily increased from 305,000 students in 1980 to 528,700 students in 2000 (College Enrollments by Racial and Ethnic Group, Selected Years, 2003). International students have unique needs as individuals and as a subgroup on campus.
- keywords: academic; activities; adjustment; american; campus; career; center; college; communication; community; counseling; culture; day; education; english; experience; groups; health; help; higher; international; international students; issues; journal; leaders; learning; life; lunch; needs; new; number; orientation; p.m.; planning; presentation; program; related; services; session; skills; social; states; students; support; system; tour; transition; united; university; volume; welcome
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- jcotr-2619
- author: Kostin, Yury; Unruh, Ron
- title: Virtual Counseling: An Examination of Academic Advising via The Internet
- date: 2005-06-01
- words: 4796
- flesch: 46
- summary: Ninety-seven surveys were distributed to respondents participating in academic counseling services at the college counseling center. How adequately does virtual academic counseling via Internet technologies, such as videoconferencing, e-mail, and chat rooms, satisfy students’ academic requests?
- keywords: academic; academic advising; academic counseling; adviser; advising; center; chat; chat room; college; comments; communication; computer; counseling; counselors; courses; data; digital; distance; document; education; eric; face; group; highest; impressions; information; internet; journal; level; long; majority; needs; online; participants; percentage; program; questions; research; results; room; satisfaction; satisfied; services; session; students; study; survey; table; technologies; technology; time; traditional; use; video; videoconferencing; virtual
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- jcotr-2620
- author: Hicks, Terence; Dennis, Dixie
- title: A Profile of Choice/Responsibleness and Goal-Seeking Attitudes among First-Generation and Non-First-Generation College Students
- date: 2005-06-01
- words: 6172
- flesch: 54
- summary: First generation college students: Are they at greater risk for attrition than their peers? The importance of being first: Unique characteristics of first generation community college students.
- keywords: academic; choices; college; college students; community; composite; death; degree; difference; dimension; direction; education; existential; family; firstgeneration; generation; generation college; generation students; goals; hicks; higher; important; journal; lap; level; life; making; mean; meaning; new; non; orientation; overall; parents; personal; purpose; research; responsibleness; results; school; scores; second; self; sense; significant; students; study; support; terry; transition; university; york
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- jcotr-2621
- author: Jacobs, Joseph; Harst, William
- title: The Capstone Course: Innovative Concepts and Content
- date: 2005-06-01
- words: 4376
- flesch: 33
- summary: Reform strategies for capstone experiences should properly integrate institutional mission and service learning, and develop collaboration between students, faculty, and professionals within a discipline. One such think group (“Endings”) immediately began exploring the existence and design of capstone experiences on campus.
- keywords: aac&u; academic; action; alvernia; american; arts; assessment; association; capstone; capstone experience; change; class; college; core; course; credits; cultural; culture; curriculum; department; development; education; expectations; experience; faculty; future; higher; initiatives; institutional; integration; journal; knowledge; learning; liberal; major; measures; need; new; orientation; plan; professional; programs; project; purpose; reform; research; review; skills; social; society; strategic; students; study; team; time; transition; undergraduate; universities; university; values; work; world
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- jcotr-2622
- author: Mouton, Michelle
- title: Understanding Transfer Students
- date: 2005-06-01
- words: 3420
- flesch: 58
- summary: NODA Layout (SP 05) 65Spring 2005 • Volume 12, Number 2 ARTICLE Understanding Transfer Students Michelle Mouton The number of transfer students attending four-year institutions is increasing rapidly, making this group of students an important segment of the campus population (Cuseo, 2003). The information collected from interviews with transfer students at one public research university reflects their experiences, and the study offers suggestions to make the transfer experience a more positive one for these students.
- keywords: able; aid; campus; college; course; experiences; financial; friends; group; housing; important; information; institution; jessica; native; needs; new; orientation; positive; process; public; research; semester; sense; stephanie; students; study; support; transfer; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2623
- author: Juve, Amy K.; Frey, Melissa A.
- title: Campus Vistaton Programs: A Needs Assessment
- date: 2005-06-01
- words: 2933
- flesch: 53
- summary: Other variations in campus visits include employing students to coordinate and lead tours or having alumni help with this important recruitment tool. The institution must determine the best way to offer services to potential students who visit because campus visits are such a significant factor in a student’s decision-making process when selecting an institution.
- keywords: assessment; campus; campuses; college; expectations; high; important; institution; learning; meeting; needs; number; office; oregon; osu; people; potential; programs; questions; resources; respondents; school; services; state; students; successful; survey; tour; university; visit; visitation; visitors; weekend
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- jcotr-2624
- author: Woodlen, Susan A.
- title: Influencing Parental Behaviors Through an Orientation Program
- date: 2005-06-01
- words: 1494
- flesch: 49
- summary: The coordinator of parent services expresses the same message by suggesting that parent intervention in most situations is not considered helpful, and that it will be best for parents not to be directly involved. Immediately following this announcement, the coordinator of parent services is introduced.
- keywords: behaviors; campus; children; college; coordinator; groups; isu; messages; office; orientation; parental; parents; problems; program; role; services; son; student; university
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- jcotr-2625
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: Demorgraphic and Academic Outcomes of Freshman Attendees at Early and Late Orientation Sessions
- date: 2005-06-01
- words: 3148
- flesch: 53
- summary: Orientation % Orientation %
- keywords: academic; admission; arts; attendees; college; course; cycle; differences; earlier; early; education; fall; family; freshmen; groups; high; late; new; niu; orientation; participants; programs; retention; school; sciences; semester; sessions; significant; students; study; table; total; university
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- jcotr-2626
- author: Wiese, Dennis
- title: Real College: The Essential Guide to Student Life
- date: 2005-06-01
- words: 987
- flesch: 54
- summary: These topics further represent Stone and Tippett’s assertion that real students face challenges. Real students aren’t always sure who they are, where they fit in, or what they want to do with the four years ahead of them, let alone the rest of their lives.
- keywords: authors; book; college; essential; freshman; guide; information; issues; life; real; relationships; sex; stone; student; style; tippett; topics; university
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- jcotr-2627
- author: Ray, Darrell C.
- title: Black Greek 101: The Culture, Customs, and Challenges of Black Fraternities and Sororities
- date: 2005-06-01
- words: 928
- flesch: 35
- summary: The author also highlights how organizations began to transition from negative aspects of the pledge process to more positive ones. Chapter 4 briefly examines the establishment of organizations in response to the African American Greek movement.
- keywords: african; american; black; chapter; development; fraternities; greek; information; intake; membership; movement; organizations; pledge; process; sororities; transition
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- jcotr-2628
- author: Cawthon, Tony W.
- title: Reflecting Back, Looking Forward: Civil Rights and Student Affairs
- date: 2005-06-01
- words: 1400
- flesch: 44
- summary: They offer an overview of the history of student affairs in relationship to race; the role of student affairs in responses to activism, segregation, and integrations concerns for student affairs administrators; the response of student affairs administrators to Black Power demands; and the inclusion of African Americans in student affairs professional organizations. Offering stories that are often difficult and painful to hear, the interviewees also share situations that made them and us proud to work in student affairs.
- keywords: administrators; affairs; authors; book; campus; chapter; civil; college; experiences; issues; leaders; multicultural; narratives; naspa; professional; rights; section; state; student; student affairs; themes; university; values
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- jcotr-2629
- author: Goodfellow, Marianne; Cresswell-Yeager, Tiffany; Felty, Adrienne L.
- title: Creating a Seamless Learning Environment: Linking the First-Year Seminar to Educationally Purposeful Cocurricular Program
- date: 2005-12-01
- words: 3372
- flesch: 50
- summary: First, it provided a record of student attendance at all cocurricular events; second, the reflection allowed students the opportunity to understand the meaning of the experience; and, third, it provided a vehicle to assess student learning. Students are encouraged to take ownership of the cocurricular experience at the beginning of the semester when students are asked to complete a Personal Plan for First-Year Student Resource and Support Program atten- dance sheet (See Appendix B for a sample plan).
- keywords: academic; affairs; assessment; campus; class; classroom; cocurricular; college; community; cultural; experience; fys; goal; information; introduction; journal; learning; library; major; number; objective; penn; personal; programs; resources; seminar; skills; state; student; support; table; total; transition; university; useful; year
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- jcotr-2630
- author: Schluchter, Jackie
- title: Understanding Transfer Students: Perceived Needs for Successful Assimilation
- date: 2005-12-01
- words: 2780
- flesch: 59
- summary: 17Fall 2005 • Volume 13, Number 1 ARTICLE Understanding Transfer Students: Perceived Needs for Successful Assimilation Jackie Schluchter Literature Review Transfer Students Research on transfer students over the past decade points to institution specific barriers that inhibit matriculation and retention. Jacobs, Busby, and Leath (1992) revealed that transfer students felt ready for college; however, financial aid and work were concerns that needed to be addressed.
- keywords: adjustment; april; assistance; campus; college; dakota; data; decision; experience; focus; group; group participant; helpful; journal; ndsu; number; orientation; participant; people; process; question; research; social; staff; state; students; study; transfer; transition; university
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- jcotr-2631
- author: Twale, Darla J.; Ridenour, Carolyn; Schaller, Molly
- title: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Intellectual Risk Taking and Transition in a First-Year Doctoral Cohort
- date: 2005-12-01
- words: 7155
- flesch: 54
- summary: According to one student, each student faced risks but there were group risks as well. Realizing that the power of the faculty outweighed the power of the cohort was revealing to students individually, despite the safety inherent in group risk (Kehrer, 1989).
- keywords: academic; barnett; behavior; challenges; change; cohort; collective; college; culture; doctoral; education; expectations; fact; faculty; feelings; focus; golde; graduate; group; group risk; help; higher; individual; intellectual; journal; kehrer; knowledge; leadership; level; management; meaning; members; negotiating; new; norris; number; opportunities; orientation; participants; personal; ph.d; possible; professional; program; qualitative; research; researchers; risk; risk taking; rubin; school; share; socialization; stein; students; study; support; taking; theory; time; transition; twale; uncertainty; university; volume; ways; weidman; work; year
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- jcotr-2632
- author: Hadley, Wanda M.; Miller, Michael T.
- title: The Transition of First-Year Students with Learning Disabilities: A Fourth Year Follow-Up Study
- date: 2005-12-01
- words: 6306
- flesch: 52
- summary: Students responded to questions reviewed from Chickering’s (1969) second vector of managing emotions, which had been part of the original study, to see if students were continuing to 43Fall 2005 • Volume 13, Number 1 grow along this vector. The purpose for conducting this research was to continue the original study of the cohort of college students with specific learning disabilities as they sought to clarify their career goals, plan for their life after graduation, analyze their core beliefs and values, and come to understand how those beliefs and values shaped their behavior.
- keywords: academic; assignments; business; career; chickering; classes; college; development; disabilities; disability; dyslexia; education; engineering; environment; experience; female; focus; freshman; future; goals; graduate; graduation; group; hadley; individual; integrity; interviews; job; journal; learning; learning disability; major; number; orientation; original; plans; postsecondary; purpose; related; research; school; services; setting; students; study; teaching; theme; thought; time; transition; values; vector; work; workplace; writing; year
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- jcotr-2633
- author: Derby, Dustin C.; Watson, Lemuel W.
- title: Community College Retention of Hispanic Students: The Study of an Orientation Course
- date: 2005-12-01
- words: 3911
- flesch: 47
- summary: The Pearson chi-square procedure was applied to address the differences between orientation course enrollment and Hispanic student retention. The Journal of College Orientation and Transition Discussion The purpose of this study was to assess the differences between orientation course enrollment and Hispanic student retention regarding four previously mentioned retention measures.
- keywords: astin; black; campus; cohort; college; community; course; criteria; degree; differences; dropout; education; enrollment; faculty; fall; higher; hispanic; hispanic students; increase; institution; issues; journal; martinez; minority; number; orientation; orientation course; persistence; research; retention; semester; significant; spring; stop; students; study; success; time; valladares; watson; year
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- jcotr-2634
- author: Brescia, William
- title: Orientation of American Indian Students to Workforce Technology Needs
- date: 2005-12-01
- words: 2412
- flesch: 47
- summary: American Indian students complete fewer undergraduate, master’s, or doctoral degrees in comparison to their representation in the general population (Turrentine & Conley, 2001). Guidance of American Indian students should focus on where they intend to fit into the tribal workforce.
- keywords: american; applications; basic; college; communities; education; employees; enterprises; governments; group; high; higher; important; indian; institutions; journal; knowledge; learning; mean; need; orientation; participants; particular; programs; research; respondents; scale; score; skills; software; students; technology; tribal; university; use; workforce
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- jcotr-2635
- author: Heeder, Mary Beth
- title: It's All About Me!
- date: 2005-12-01
- words: 1625
- flesch: 72
- summary: Today, “it’s all about ME” as we interact with many students and their parents. Many students think they know it all.
- keywords: class; college; experience; generation; life; negative; orientation; parents; role; school; students; teachers; things; years
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- jcotr-2636
- author: Cooper, Jacqueline
- title: Your Financial Future: A Guide to Life After Graduation, 1st Edition
- date: 2005-12-01
- words: 1306
- flesch: 58
- summary: Other chapters with a sense of urgency for new graduates are Chapter 8, Identity Theft, and Chapter 13, Investing. In proper debt management, the goal is to get rid of the “bad” debt; the author suggests several methods for doing so, including, but not limited to, eliminating credit cards, living within one’s means, paying more than the minimum about due each 73Fall 2005 • Volume 13, Number 1 month, and selling things one does not need.
- keywords: author; book; cards; chapter; college; credit; debt; early; financial; goals; good; graduates; income; investing; loans; new; payments; report; sample; step; student; use
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- jcotr-2637
- author: Masterson, Dale
- title: Navigating the Research University: A Guide for First-Year Students
- date: 2005-12-01
- words: 1599
- flesch: 40
- summary: A “Quick Start Guide” is also included to assist new students successfully through the first few days on their campus—a reference to topics such as finding classes, adding and dropping courses, paying tuition, living with roommates, campus parking, and attending campus events. The importance of academic integrity is emphasized early in the book; this topic is made “real” for new students through the account of an actual experience of a current student.
- keywords: academic; andreatta; book; campus; chapter; college; content; courses; development; guide; important; issues; new; orientation; overview; personal; research; section; skills; students; transition; understanding; university; year
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- jcotr-2638
- author: Price, Suzanne J.
- title: Formula for Academic Success in the First Year
- date: 2005-12-01
- words: 903
- flesch: 53
- summary: These obstacles are obvious ones that often hinder student success. Formula for Academic Success in the First Year provides new students a clear and concise plan for achieving success in college.
- keywords: academic; guide; important; negative; power; process; self; strategies; students; success; voice; year
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- jcotr-2639
- author: Roof, Mark K.
- title: From F to Phi Beta Kappa: Supercharge Your Study Skills
- date: 2005-12-01
- words: 1113
- flesch: 52
- summary: The focus of Ong’s book goes beyond a basic study guide to be used actively by college students. This book could be the key to success for many students, as it was created to be an effective resource to assist one with the rigors of academia.
- keywords: attention; better; book; chapter; class; college; course; effective; focus; healthy; life; ong; organized; personal; students; study; success; tips
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- jcotr-2640
- author: Dennis, Dixie; Hicks, Terence
- title: Health Behavior Patterns Among First-Year and Non-First Year College Students Attending a North Carolina Historically Black University
- date: 2006-06-01
- words: 3702
- flesch: 52
- summary: Specific to college students attending historically Black universities, Ford and Goode 11Spring 2006 • Volume 13, Number 2 (1994) surveyed the health behaviors of 224 undergraduate students enrolled in health education classes. Overall, students reported that they believed the most important health issues facing college students at that time included HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, birth control, date rape, stress management, suicide, and alcohol and other drugs.
- keywords: academic; activity; african; alcohol; american; behaviors; black; college; college students; daily; drinking; ford; goode; health; journal; life; non; number; overall; percentage; physical; problems; psychological; quality; questionnaire; questions; related; reporting; research; significant; status; stressed; students; study; times; university; usdhhs; week; year; year college; year students
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- jcotr-2641
- author: Cabrere-Buggs, Nicole
- title: Perceived Barriers and Levels of Satisfaction with Student Services for Adult Learners
- date: 2006-06-01
- words: 3734
- flesch: 52
- summary: This survey was specifically designed to obtain data needed to describe and assess barriers, satisfaction of student support services, and demographics of adult students (Whitmer, 1998). The outcomes of how adult students perceive student services at one southern, metropolitan research university are described in this research.
- keywords: academic; adult; adult students; advising; aid; assistance; availability; available; barriers; college; cross; data; dispositional; education; financial; findings; higher; home; hours; information; institutional; journal; number; office; orientation; problem; questions; research; responsibilities; results; satisfaction; satisfied; services; situational; students; study; support; survey; time; university
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- jcotr-2642
- author: Capps, Matthew A.; Miller, Michael T.
- title: Essential Elements for New Student Orientation: The Perspective of Secondary School Personnel
- date: 2006-06-01
- words: 3836
- flesch: 37
- summary: The women in administrative positions in secondary schools who participated in the study agreed most strongly that new student college orientation programs should work to create an atmosphere that minimizes anxiety and promotes positive attitudes (M = 4.54; 33Spring 2006 • Volume 13, Number 2 see Table 3). The retention of college students is a major challenge for higher education, as nationally fewer than 45% of all first-time college students graduate within 5 years of beginning their studies (Adelman, 2004).
- keywords: academic; administrators; assist; college; community; education; expectations; faculty; female; high; higher; information; journal; kirst; miller; nadler; new; new student; number; opportunities; orientation; orientation programs; positive; programs; relationships; respondents; school; secondary; standards; student; student orientation; study; survey; table; time; transition; understanding; university; volume; year
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- jcotr-2643
- author: Booker, Keonya C.
- title: Building the Connection: An Evaluation of New Student Orientation at a Woman' College
- date: 2006-06-01
- words: 1797
- flesch: 48
- summary: The purpose of the present study was to explicate findings from an objective- oriented evaluation of new student orientation at a woman’s college. The specific evaluation question guiding the study was: To what degree does new student orientation accomplish the following five goals: (1) help first-year students become familiar with campus facilities and resources; (2) facilitate positive adjustment to a new environment; (3) encourage personal confidence and new friendships among first-year students; (4) facilitate fun, open-mindedness, and preparedness for the college academic experience; and (5) increase excitement about the college and a sense of belonging among first-year students? Method Setting and Participants
- keywords: academic; activities; campus; college; community; education; evaluation; faculty; families; higher; institutions; journal; new; number; open; orientation; programs; results; sex; social; students; study; time; transition; women; year; young
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- jcotr-2644
- author: Johnson, David B.
- title: Editor's Perspective
- date: 2006-06-01
- words: 237
- flesch: 46
- summary: In the first article, “Facing the Facebook Generation,” the authors discuss ethical decision making and how this impacts student orientation leaders and the professional staff who supervise them. 41Spring 2006 • Volume 13, Number 2 CAMPUS NOTES Editor’s Perspective David B. Johnson, Senior Associate Editor, Campus Notes I am delighted to serve as the senior associate editor for Campus Notes.
- keywords: article; campus; editor; notes; student
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- jcotr-2645
- author: Gumm, Eric; Wolfman, Abbey
- title: Facing the Facebook Generation: Ethical Challenges in Orientation
- date: 2006-06-01
- words: 2288
- flesch: 47
- summary: Colleges and universities are considering how to slow or stop this illegal activity, leading some orientation professionals to ask whether this issue should be addressed during new student orientation. 42 The Journal of College Orientation and Transition CAMPUS NOTES David B. Johnson, Senior Associate Editor Facing the Facebook Generation: Ethical Challenges in Orientation Eric Gumm and Abbey Wolfman Orientation professionals often are masters at the “nuts and bolts” aspects of organizing and implementing programs that serve new students and families in their transition to a college or university environment.
- keywords: actions; behavior; campus; challenges; college; ethical; ethics; expectations; file; group; illegal; information; issue; leaders; members; new; number; orientation; post; professionals; sarah; sharing; sites; situation; staff; students; transition; universities; university; use; web
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- jcotr-2646
- author: Correll, Monica
- title: Return to Learn
- date: 2006-06-01
- words: 1739
- flesch: 61
- summary: This exercise allows students the opportunity to connect at a more personal level and to network with other students. The main purpose of the seminar is to introduce students to items, procedures, and jargon they will encounter at the institution, as well as to acquaint students with support offices on campus, such as the academic support center, health services, disability support services, and multicultural support services; and with the variety of essential offices on campus, such as the advising center and financial aid office.
- keywords: academic; assignment; breakout; campus; center; class; college; day; group; institution; number; offices; questions; return; seminar; services; sessions; staff; students; support; transition
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- jcotr-2647
- author: Cooper, Jacqueline
- title: How to Zing! Your Life & Leadershipp: 21 Insights to Maximizing Your Influence
- date: 2006-06-01
- words: 914
- flesch: 53
- summary: Denney further adds that charisma, though hard to define because of its highly personal nature, is a valuable quality and a powerful means of influencing others, achieving personal happiness, and making the world a better place. Your Life & Leadership: 21 Insights on Maximizing Your Influence By Nancy Hunter Denney Published by Viaticum Press 2004, 231 Pages Reviewed by Jacqueline Cooper (jc41@txstate.edu), Assistant Director Admission/Coordinator Orientation, Texas State University-San Marcos Nancy Hunter Denney must have had fun writing How to Zing!
- keywords: book; building; charisma; denney; exercises; forces; good; happiness; influence; insights; leadership; life; personal; self; success; zing
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- jcotr-2648
- author: Ray, Darrell C.
- title: Student Development in the First College Year: A Primer for College Educators
- date: 2006-06-01
- words: 868
- flesch: 38
- summary: A command of student development theory has been seen as paramount for professionals within higher education. An operational knowledge of student development theory enables not only student affairs practitioners, but all employees in an academic environment to better respond to and understand the needs of the student population.
- keywords: application; chapter; cognitive; college; development; education; higher; identity; model; practice; research; student; theories; theory; year
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- jcotr-2649
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to Do About It
- date: 2006-06-01
- words: 1634
- flesch: 41
- summary: Although the primary audience for this book is parents and family members, college and university administrators, high school counselors, and even students will benefit from this readable, well-balanced look at the mental health of college students. Chapter 6 focuses on the complicated but crucial role parents play in their students’ mental health.
- keywords: authors; book; campus; campuses; chapter; college; concerns; crisis; developmental; disorders; family; health; issues; kadison; mental; need; normal; orientation; parents; problems; professionals; resources; sexual; students
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- jcotr-2650
- author: King, Sheri
- title: Who's the Real Enemy?
- date: 2006-06-01
- words: 1273
- flesch: 65
- summary: However the most surprising reality I had to face was the way parents are referred to by so many in the academy. Are parents really that bad?
- keywords: affairs; bad; college; encounters; enemy; goal; good; institution; message; need; orientation; parents; son; stories; student; years
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- jcotr-2651
- author: Gentry, William A.; Kuhnert, Karl W.; Johnson, Rachel M.; Cox, Brennan D.
- title: Even a Weekend Works: The Value of a Weekend-Long Orientation Program on First-Year College Students
- date: 2006-12-01
- words: 5821
- flesch: 56
- summary: Many schools offer orientation programs of varying lengths with different degrees of success. However, what distinguished the current study’s findings from other research findings on orientation programs is that the present results illustrate how one weekend can apparently impact college students.
- keywords: .05; activities; attendees; campus; classroom; college; college orientation; community; comparison; contact; data; development; education; freshman; greene; group; higher; incoming; information; involved; involvement; journal; junior; leadership; likely; long; long orientation; number; open; organizations; orientation; orientation program; participants; program; program attendees; questionnaire; questions; research; responses; results; retention; school; semester; senior; sessions; staff; students; study; summer; time; transition; university; volume; weekend; wilderness; year; year students
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- jcotr-2652
- author: Wolcott, Gregory V.
- title: Critical Reflections of College Sophomores About Preparation and Persistence During Their Freshman Year
- date: 2006-12-01
- words: 10097
- flesch: 53
- summary: Chickering and Reisser’s (1993) vectors of psychosocial development, which helped a generation of professionals better understand the development of college students, was the second theoretical framework. These theorists examined how earlier psychological research could be applied to college students, creating what they called “seven vectors of development” (Chickering & Reisser, 1993, p. xv).
- keywords: academic; advising; astin; bass; campus; carolina; center; class; classes; college; college students; control; critical; development; eds; education; expectations; experience; factors; faculty; family; findings; francisco; freshman; freshman year; friends; future; gardner; help; higher; institution; integration; internal; involvement; jossey; journal; locus; national; negative; new; number; orientation; parents; participants; participatory; people; persistence; personal; positive; precollege; programs; ralphie; recommendations; reflections; research; resource; retention; roof; san; second; semester; services; social; staff; students; studies; study; success; successful; support; tacey; taylor; time; transition; university; upcraft; venus; volume; ward; year; year experience
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- jcotr-2653
- author: Collier, Amy M.; Petty, Karen
- title: Characteristics and Repatriation Issues of Third Culture Kids: A Review of the Literature
- date: 2006-12-01
- words: 3225
- flesch: 47
- summary: This article reviews the pertinent literature on the phenomenon of third culture kids— their characteristics, the repatriation issues they may face, and the assistance they may need to succeed in college. A commonly underserved population in universities and colleges is third culture kids (TCKs), individuals who have spent part of their developmental years in a country that is not the home country of their parents (Pollock & Van Reken, 1999).
- keywords: american; children; college; country; cultural; culture; culture kids; experience; gaw; gerner; high; home; host; identity; international; journal; kids; loss; mobile; number; orientation; parents; pollock; reentry; reken; relationships; repatriation; research; school; schulz; social; states; support; tcks; united; universities; university; useem; van
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- jcotr-2654
- author: Bell, Brent J.; Williams, Brady G.
- title: Learning from First-Year Fears: An Analysis of the Harvard First-Year Outdoor Program's "Fear in a Hat" Exercise
- date: 2006-12-01
- words: 6713
- flesch: 51
- summary: Purpose of the research: To look at the types of fears students on wilderness orientation programs have concerning transition to college. Recent evidence suggests that social fears, when involving a fear of social exclusion, also have significantly detrimental effects on specific types of cognitive functioning and, potentially, successful transition to the university.
- keywords: academic; activities; activity; baumeister; categories; category; chickering; college; commitment; competence; conflict; data; development; exclusion; fears; fih; fit; goals; group; harvard; hat; help; high; home; incoming; information; intellectual; interpersonal; issues; journal; model; need; new; number; orientation; participants; physical; program; reisser; related; relationship; reported; research; researchers; responses; results; role; school; self; social; students; study; support; table; task; time; transition; true; twenge; university; vector; volume; wilderness; year
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- jcotr-2655
- author: Lounsbury, John W.; Levy, Jacob J.; Saudargas, Richard A.; Gibson, Lucy W.
- title: Big Five Personality Traits and Outcomes for First-Year College Students
- date: 2006-12-01
- words: 3763
- flesch: 43
- summary: The personality measure used in this study was the Resource Associates Transition to College (TTC) inventory, a normal personality inventory contextualized for college students from an adolescent personality inventory that has been used for adolescents from middle school through high school and college. The present results also support Chickering and Reisser’s (1993) contention that college student identity has multiple linkages to the personal attributes of college students.
- keywords: academic; agreeableness; bass; big; college; college student; conscientiousness; courses; development; different; emotional; extraversion; findings; francisco; gibson; gpa; identity; intention; inventory; jossey; journal; life; lounsbury; openness; organizations; orientation; outcomes; performance; personality; personality traits; personnel; present; programs; psychology; research; results; satisfaction; saudargas; school; sense; stability; students; study; traits; transition; university; variables; work; year
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- jcotr-2656
- author: McKenzie, Branda L.
- title: Orientation and NASCAR: Parallel Worlds
- date: 2006-12-01
- words: 1259
- flesch: 73
- summary: Although there may be a director who serves as the driving force behind the program, without the rest of the staff (student, support, and professional) as well as involvement from others at the institution, it would not be possible to welcome new students to campus. During our programs we have to be prepared for anything, make sure the program runs smoothly (and that we don’t “wreck”), and work with others to get new students housed, fed, advised and registered, all while maintaining a positive attitude and energy.
- keywords: crew; driver; nascar; new; number; orientation; pit; programs; race; staff; students; team; time; track
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- jcotr-2657
- author: Schneider, Joshua
- title: Preparing for a Career: My Experience as a NODA Intern
- date: 2006-12-01
- words: 1636
- flesch: 54
- summary: This gave me a chance to meet the eleven orientation leaders I would be working with, and it allowed me to begin evaluating some of their strengths and weaknesses as student leaders. The NIU students and professional orientation staff answered all of these questions, and many more, even before I arrived on campus.
- keywords: able; affairs; campus; day; graduate; institution; intern; internship; new; noda; orientation; phone; position; program; school; student; summer; university; work; year
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- jcotr-2658
- author: Wolfman, Abbey E.
- title: Cultivating Future Professionals: My Experience as a NODA Intern Supervisor
- date: 2006-12-01
- words: 864
- flesch: 48
- summary: When the intern arrived in mid-May, he immediately became part of orientation leader training and final preparations for orientation programs. The internship provided more than additional experience working with comprehensive orientation programs.
- keywords: experience; illinois; intern; internship; leaders; noda; office; orientation; program; staff; student; summer; university
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- jcotr-2659
- author: Neal, Roxanne
- title: Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation fo Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students
- date: 2006-12-01
- words: 1667
- flesch: 55
- summary: 76 The Journal of College Orientation and Transition BOOK REVIEWS Jeanine Ward-Roof, Senior Associate Editor “Doing School”: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students By Denise Clark Pope Yale University Press 2001, 212 pages Reviewed by Roxanne Neal (rneal@college.ucla.edu), Director of Orientation, University of California – Los Angeles The messages about success are fairly clear in American culture, and by high school, most students have that message ingrained. Ultimately, Eve is conflicted about whether she is truly enjoying her time in high school and consciously making the choices in her frantic life, or if she has succumbed to outside pressures.
- keywords: academic; book; college; eve; experience; goals; grades; high; kevin; michelle; pope; pursuit; questionable; roberto; school; stress; students; success; system; teachers; teresa; work
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- jcotr-2660
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: Serving the Millennial Generation
- date: 2006-12-01
- words: 1491
- flesch: 36
- summary: Chapter 5 takes up the topic of effectively teaching Millennial students and fostering their learning in the classroom. Coming from structured precollege lives where high achievement came easily, Millennial students may have unrealistic expectations about what is required to be successful in college.
- keywords: affairs; boomer; campus; chapter; cohort; college; coomes; debard; development; expectations; generation; higher; history; members; millennial; need; new; number; orientation; parents; popular; professionals; staff; students; traditional; understanding; values
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- jcotr-2661
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: Editor’s Note
- date: 2007-06-01
- words: 239
- flesch: 47
- summary: Ours is a caring and collegial profession, and the hearts of many orientation/transition professionals and student staff members go out to our colleagues at Virginia Tech as they mourn the loss of 33 members of their academic community. 5Spring 2007 • Volume 14, Number 2 EDITOR’S NOTE This issue of The Journal of College Orientation and Transition goes to press just as the unspeakably tragic events at Virginia Tech University have occurred.
- keywords: campus; orientation; tech; university; virginia
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- jcotr-2662
- author: Nehls, Kimberly
- title: Let Your Fingers Do the Talking: An Analysis of a College Parent Listserv
- date: 2007-06-01
- words: 7487
- flesch: 63
- summary: College parents may find themselves balancing an awkward position between their old role and new one. Support: What are the common concerns of college parents and how can the institution function as a source of social support based on these concerns? 4.
- keywords: address; adjustment; analysis; bass; campus; coburn; college; communication; computer; concerns; data; daughter; discourse; discussion; education; evans; event; feb; francisco; future; grades; higher; home; impact; institution; issues; jossey; journal; letting; life; listserv; living; mail; messages; miss; month; network; new; number; online; orientation; parental; parents; parents@xyz.edu; participants; personal; positive; postings; programs; questions; relationships; reply; research; san; schlossberg; school; semester; situation; son; students; study; subscribers; suggestions; support; table; theory; time; transition; university; volume; year
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- jcotr-2663
- author: Abel, Michael J.; Bice, Asheley; Cox, Bradley E.
- title: Importance of Faculty Involvement in Orientation
- date: 2007-06-01
- words: 3022
- flesch: 44
- summary: Therefore, the first contact with faculty members must be an affirmative experience in order to ensure that students have the confidence to approach other faculty once the semester begins. Though this study is limited in scope, it suggests the need to 27Spring 2007 • Volume 14, Number 2 examine not only if faculty members are involved in orientation programs, but also how they are involved.
- keywords: abel; academic; affairs; bice; campus; classroom; college; community; cox; education; environment; experience; faculty; institutions; interaction; involved; involvement; journal; members; national; new; number; opportunities; orientation; positive; professionals; professors; programs; students; success; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2664
- author: Bracken, Jillian L.
- title: Mental Health and the College Freshman: An Exploration of Effective Ways to Address Mental Health Education in a First-Year Experience Course
- date: 2007-06-01
- words: 3111
- flesch: 49
- summary: Student mental health: Secondary education no more. It discusses the growing need for mental health awareness on college campuses, identifies current trends in mental health education in the first-year classroom, and presents several useful resources for those campuses who are considering including this topic in a college transition course.
- keywords: academic; address; campus; center; classroom; college; counseling; depression; directors; education; emotional; excellent; experience; florida; following; fye; health; help; increase; information; issues; journal; mental; national; number; office; online; personal; problems; program; research; resources; september; state; students; success; suggestions; suicide; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2665
- author: Burchett, Matthew P.
- title: The Case for Conferences: Confessions of a New Professiona
- date: 2007-06-01
- words: 1354
- flesch: 69
- summary: Kathleen Manning (2001) describes this experience as being when “student affairs professionals are exposed to the soul’s creative polarity. My college mentor once told me, after a lengthy career in student affairs, that if asked to be truthful about the lives he had changed, it would only be a handful.
- keywords: affairs; case; clouds; college; conference; education; experience; life; moment; nashville; need; new; perfect; professionals; programs; soul; student; trip; want; work; world; worth
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- jcotr-2666
- author: Ward-Roof, Jeanine; Smith, Joy
- title: What Do You Do When the Unthinkable Happens?
- date: 2007-06-01
- words: 780
- flesch: 59
- summary: As we discuss this situation, it is important to note that Clemson University administration, faculty, staff, and students all send their condolences to the student’s family as they continue to deal with the tragedy that we will discuss. Crisis management meetings occurred with staff from the police department and other municipal services areas, housing, media, dean of students, undergraduate studies, admissions, orientation, and many others.
- keywords: campus; clemson; community; information; orientation; police; program; safety; staff; student; summer; university
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- jcotr-2667
- author: Wical, Gabe; Lezan, Erica
- title: How Using a Common Language Helped Define Staff Selection
- date: 2007-06-01
- words: 2149
- flesch: 50
- summary: After completing the application, every candidate goes through a 30-minute individual interview with two professional staff members as well as a group interview in which professional staff members and former student staff members rate their performance in group activities. One of the most challenging aspects of selecting staff members is distinguishing among a large pool of highly qualified candidates.
- keywords: campus; group; members; new; ocs; orientation; process; rubric; selection; staff; students; work
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- jcotr-2668
- author: Hemphill, Brian O.; LaBanc, Brandi Hephner
- title: Anatomy of an Orientation Welcome
- date: 2007-06-01
- words: 815
- flesch: 60
- summary: Therefore, it is critical that the president, vice president, deans, and directors, who are welcoming prospective students, set a positive tone for the day while assuring the students and families that they have made a great decision in selecting this particular institution. Volume 14, Number 2 Anatomy of an Orientation Welcome Brian O. Hemphill and Brandi Hephner LaBanc The Orientation Welcome is a critical component of the many methods that introduce students to the college campus.
- keywords: campus; college; community; day; experience; family; institution; orientation; path; president; students; success; vice; welcome
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- jcotr-2669
- author: Silverman, Scott; Erlanger, Chasen; LeGree, Diane
- title: Commuter Pit Stops
- date: 2007-06-01
- words: 1215
- flesch: 57
- summary: The Associated Students of UCR, which on their own have taken a greater interest in services and programs for commuter students, have become a valuable asset, often joining us for the Pit Stops to meet and greet students. Volume 14, Number 2 Commuter Pit Stops Scott Silverman, Chasen Erlanger, and Diane LeGree Commuter students, or more accurately, students who live off campus, occupy a special place within the university.
- keywords: campus; commuter; erlanger; information; legree; lot; number; parking; pit; programs; services; silverman; stops; students; time; university; year
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- jcotr-2670
- author: Bedsole, Blake
- title: Creating a Sibling Orientation Program: The University of Alabama’s Successful Start
- date: 2007-06-01
- words: 1208
- flesch: 55
- summary: We conducted a literature review on the subject of sibling orientation programs and found that there was a literature gap; peer institution benchmarking was conducted to look at the sibling programs offered by other institutions. 50 The Journal of College Orientation and Transition Creating a Sibling Orientation Program: The University of Alabama’s Successful Start Blake Bedsole As orientation professionals, we go the extra mile to plan programs to best benefit the students entering our institutions.
- keywords: a.m.; activities; alabama; campus; center; college; museum; orientation; p.m.; program; respondents; session; sibling; statement; students; table; tour; university
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- jcotr-2671
- author: Eaton, Paul
- title: My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
- date: 2007-06-01
- words: 1731
- flesch: 38
- summary: These peer groups are often haphazardly formed by students as a result of shared circumstances or shared demographics and have a tremendous impact on the overall experience of undergraduate students. Be it a choice of major, residential living environment, or extracurricular involvement, undergraduate students now have almost unlimited optional experiences during college.
- keywords: american; book; campus; college; community; culture; discussion; experience; higher; impact; issues; nathan; orientation; programs; result; society; students; undergraduate; understanding; universities; university
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- jcotr-2672
- author: Loynes, Ericka; Rode, Denise L.
- title: The College to Career Road Map (Student and Parent Editions)
- date: 2007-06-01
- words: 1098
- flesch: 40
- summary: The College to Career Road Map: A Four-Year Guide to Finding Your Path (the student edition) takes students through college year by year, spelling out the essential academic and experiential activities they should pursue to best prepare themselves for a satisfying, purposeful life after college. The student version helps students work on their goals throughout their college careers—not just in the year or two before graduation—and this developmental approach is one of the strengths of the book.
- keywords: academic; activities; authors; book; campus; career; college; development; edition; experience; guide; map; orientation; parent; purpose; road; student; success; year
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- jcotr-2673
- author: Ray, Darrell C.
- title: Transforming the First-Year Experience for Students of Color
- date: 2007-06-01
- words: 1020
- flesch: 41
- summary: 60 The Journal of College Orientation and Transition Transforming the First-Year Experience for Students of Color Edited by L. I. Rendon, M. Garcia, & D. Person National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina 2004, 208 pages Reviewed by Darrell C. Ray (dcray5@lsu.edu), Associate Dean of Students/Director of the Center for Student Leadership & Involvement, Louisiana State University The landscape of American higher education continues to be characterized by a more diverse population than previous generations of students.
- keywords: campus; campuses; chapter; college; color; experience; faculty; needs; population; process; programmatic; section; students; text; transition; year
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- jcotr-2674
- author: Linvill, Darren
- title: Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money
- date: 2007-06-01
- words: 1608
- flesch: 53
- summary: In their book, Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money (2005), winner of the Association of American Colleges and Universities 2007 Frederic W. Ness Book Award, Engell and Dangerfield address the causes and effects of this culture of money which has invaded American higher education. Some question whether higher education is beginning to take its responsibility to raise funding more seriously than its responsibility to both students and society.
- keywords: american; authors; benefits; college; culture; dangerfield; economic; education; engell; goal; higher; important; institution; knowledge; learning; money; new; professionals; students; transition; universities; university; way
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- jcotr-2675
- author: Andrews, Charlie
- title: Exploring Our Past to Prepare for Our Future
- date: 2007-12-01
- words: 609
- flesch: 42
- summary: For those who have been a part of NODA history, you should be thanked for the role you played in getting the association to the place we are now. Exploring Our Past to Prepare for Our Future Charlie Andrews, NODA President, 2004-2007 As the National Orientation Directors Association (NODA) celebrates 30 years since our incorporation, we have dedicated this edition of the Journal to reflect on our history and some of the highlights that have shaped both the association and our profession.
- keywords: association; director; future; history; new; noda; orientation; professional; resources; years
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- jcotr-2676
- author: Fabich, Mary Jo
- title: The History of NODA
- date: 2007-12-01
- words: 1515
- flesch: 39
- summary: First Director of Regions named, solidifying the importance of regional participation in NODA The NODA Journal launched (but ceases publication in 1986) 1983 Tradition of exchanging school stickers and placing them on nametags begins at national conference held in Kentucky 1987 First Student Leadership Award given at regional conferences 1993 Associate/Corporate membership defined and incorporated into NODA culture Joint NODA/FYE monograph published 1996 NODA’s scholarly journal reestablished with a new name, The Journal of College Orientation and Transition 1999 First Orientation Professionals Institute held 2000 Parent Services Network added to provide support to Parent/Family programs Parent Handbook published 2001 New mission along with core values of Community, Diversity, Integrity, Learning, Scholarship, and Service adopted by NODA The NODA Board adopts “Vision 2007” which includes four strategic priorities designed to move the association forward 2002 NODA Board of Directors votes to support first “Transfer Institute” to be held at the University of North Texas 2004 Regional Coordinators elected, rather than appointed, for the first time Handbook for Families of Commuting Students published 2006 University of Minnesota selected as location for first permanent home office 2007 Search begins for first NODA Home Office Executive Director During the spring of 2007, a specific location was identified and a very happy and excited group of Board members crowded into the office to check out the furniture, take pictures, shed a tear, and share a very special moment in NODA history.
- keywords: association; board; charter; college; conference; directors; fall; incorporation; journal; membership; national; noda; office; organization; orientation; professionals; regional; services; students; support; transition; university
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- jcotr-2677
- author: Fabich, Mary Jo
- title: NODA Presidents
- date: 2007-12-01
- words: 136
- flesch: -2
- summary: VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1 11 NODA Presidents Prepared by Mary Jo Fabich, NODA Historian First Year of Term President Institution 1976 Mike Jones State University of New York at Oswego 1978 Don Perigo Michigan State University 1980 Bob Walters California Polytechnic State University 1982 Debbie Shriver University of Tennessee 1984 Dave Hansen University of Nevada – Reno 1986 Yvonne Schildt University of the Pacific 1988 Jim Zakely University of Northern Colorado 1990 Richard Mullendore University of North Carolina - Wilmington 1992 Becky Smith Otterbein College 1994 Victor Wilson Agnes Scott College 1996 Daniel Robb Bridgewater State University 1998 Jeanine Ward-Roof Clemson University 2000 Cindy Payne Northern Arizona University 2002 Andrene Kaiwi-Lenting California Polytechnic State University 2004 Charlie Andrews Florida International University 2007 Craig Mack Massachusetts Bay Community College ANNIVERSARY ARTICLE NODA Journal Fall 2007.indd FALL 2007 •
- keywords: anniversary article; college; fall; noda; polytechnic; state; university
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- jcotr-2678
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: Memories of Past Presidents
- date: 2007-12-01
- words: 920
- flesch: 37
- summary: David Hansen (President, 1984-1986) Associate Vice President emeritus and Special Assistant to the Vice President for Student Services at the University of Nevada, Reno During Dave’s tenure, NODA regions were reorganized and the first Director of Regions position was discussed. NODA issues during her presidency were strategic planning for the organization, discussion of a home office, publishing a monograph, and establishing financial stability.
- keywords: association; board; college; conferences; director; experience; journal; monograph; noda; orientation; past; president; regions; students; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2679
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: The History of the NODA Journal
- date: 2007-12-01
- words: 1949
- flesch: 39
- summary: NODA Journal Fall 2007.indd FALL 2007 • NODA Journal, 1(1), 1.
- keywords: articles; authors; board; book; categories; category; college; development; directors; early; editorial; education; higher; issues; jacobs; journal; new; noda; number; orientation; professional; program; publication; robb; students; submissions; topics; total; transition; university; years
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- jcotr-2680
- author: Williams, Sheena C.; Rode, Denise L.
- title: Celebrating the Last 30 Years of NODA Annual Conferences
- date: 2007-12-01
- words: 9707
- flesch: 16
- summary: I n fo rm a ti o n f ro m S el ec te d N O D A A n n u a l C o n fe re n ce G u id es S p o n so r K ey n o te K ey n o te A d d re ss P le n ar y S p ea k er s/ Ye ar L o ca ti o n In st it u ti o n /H o st (s ) O ve ra ll T h em e S p ea k er (s ) T it le (s ) C o n fe re n ce H ig h li gh ts 1 9 8 5 Sc o tt sd al e, A Z A ri zo n a St at e U n iv er si ty O ri en ta ti o n i n t h e D r. G en e Sh ar p en in g th e Fo cu s (H o st : B o b F ra n ci s) 8 0 s- -S h ar p en in g th e C h av ez o n S p ec ia l P o p u la ti o n s Fo cu s 1 9 8 6 Fo rt W o rt h , T X Ta rr an t C o u n ty J u n io r O ri en ta ti o n a n d D r. W ri gh t E n h an ci n g D r. M ar ga re t B ar r, C o ll eg e, o th er s A ca d em ic A d vi si n g: L as si te r A ch ie ve m en t T h ro u gh “O ri en ta ti o n a n d A d vi si n g: (H o st : Su zz an e Fi el d s) P ar tn er s o f th e Fu tu re C re at iv e O ri en ta ti o n P ar tn er s in S tu d en ts ’ S u cc es s” an d A d vi se m en t D r. T h o m as G ri te s, “ R et en ti o n , ‘U n d ec id ed ’ m aj o rs , an d A ca d em ic A d vi si n g” 1 9 8 7 C h ar lo tt e, N C U n iv er si ty o f N o rt h O ri en ta ti o n i n D r. R o b er t C ar o li n a - C h ar lo tt e, T ra n si ti o n : A A lb ri gh t - o th er s C h an gi n g C h al le n ge P re si d en t Jo h n so n (H o st s: M ar y H o w ar d C . A P P E N D IX B S p ec ia l F ea tu re s o f S el ec te d N O D A A n n u a l C o n fe re n ce s Ye ar L o ca ti o n S p o n so r In st it u ti o n O ve ra ll T h em e S p ec ia l Fe at u re s/ To p ic s 1 9 7 9 W as h in gt o n , D .C .
- keywords: ar o; b o; c o; conference; d r.; d s; d t; decade; e n; e u; es o; f n; h e; h n; h o; io n; l o; le n; li n; m o; n al; n ar; n ce; n d; n es; n fe; n g; n iv; n m; n n; n p; n s; n t; n te; o d; o f; o n; o o; o ri; o rt; o st; o te; o u; orientation; p o; p u; programs; r o; ra n; s o; s p; sessions; si n; students; t h; t o; ti n; ti o; total; u d; u n; w o
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- jcotr-2681
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: What Makes Annual Conferences Special?
- date: 2007-12-01
- words: 1432
- flesch: 57
- summary: Since then, I’ve accumulated many miles of air travel (and several pieces of battered luggage) traveling to NODA conferences and meetings, and I treasure every opportunity.” Harrison Greenlaw (University of South Carolina): “At my first conference, I was greeted by board members from my region who made me feel welcome. Whether it’s their first conference or their 21st, NODA members describe their conference memories with heartfelt words.
- keywords: annual; carolina; chicago; city; college; conference; fall; feeling; graduate; illinois; journal; members; new; noda; opi; orientation; people; professionals; special; student; time; toronto; university; years
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- author: Williams, Sheena C.
- title: NODA Award Recipients
- date: 2007-12-01
- words: 1015
- flesch: -189
- summary: VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1 41 President’s Award Ray Passkiewicz, Davenport College, 1993 Dick Mullendore, University of North Carolina, 1994 Gerry Strumpf, University of Maryland, 1995 Valerie Hodge, East Stroudsburg University, Pennsylvania, 1996 Michele McManus, University of North Carolina – Charlotte, 1997 Victor K. Wilson, University of Georgia, 1998 Bonita Jacobs, University of North Texas, 1999 Jeanine Ward-Roof, Clemson University, 2001 LeeAnn Melin, Northern Arizona University, 2002 Terese King, NODA Director of Membership Services (1999-2003), 2003 Jim Levi, Greek 101, 2004 Melanie Payne, Indiana University, 2005 Carren Martin, University of Wisconsin, 2006 Porter Martin, Attorney in Madison, WI, 2006 Outstanding Research Beth Lingren, Southern Illinois University – Carbondale, 2002 Jeanine Ward-Roof, Clemson University, 2003 David Ortiz, University of Houston – Clear Lake, 2005 Greg Wolcott, San Jose State University, 2006 Outstanding Service Tracy Forman, Texas A&M University, 2004 J. J. Brown, University of Tennessee – Knoxville, 2005 Craig Mack, Boston University, 2006 Outstanding NODA Intern Joshua Boschee, North Dakota State University, 2005 Kate Granholm, Illinois State University, 2005 Justin Brady, University of South Carolina, 2006 Kelly Rifenbark, Bowling Green State University, 2006 Jude Butch, Western Illinois University, 2006 Emily Williams, Jacksonville State University, 2006 42 THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION AND TRANSITION Outstanding Network Chair Rob Anderson, University of Iowa (GLBTA Network), 2004 Outstanding Regional Coordinator Larry R. Martin, California State – Fullerton (Region II), 2004 Chancellor’s Award Cheryl M. Hogle, University of New York – Plattsburgh, 1987 VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1 39 Christina Purcell, Peabody College of Vanderbilt, 1994 Carol Lundberg, Claremont Graduate School, 1994 Andrea Hemphill, Texas A&M University, 1994 Margaret Anlinker, University of South Carolina – Columbia, 1995 Kristin Corbett, Florida State University, 1995 John Seabreeze, University of Maryland – College Park, 1995 Anita B. Walton, North Carolina State University, 1995 Amy Donahue, Clemson University, 1996 Dan Turner, Northern Illinois University, 1996 Alicia Dawn Caudill, University of South Carolina, 1996 Sara B. Thomas, Miami University of Ohio, 1996 Regina D. Graber, University of Arkansas, 1997 Mark B. Reed, Western Illinois University, 1997 Kevin D. Rome, University of Texas at Austin, 1997 Courtney Erin Collier, Florida State University, 1998 Chastity Gerhardt, Oklahoma State University, 1998 Meg Nowak, Boston College, 1998 Brett E. Kennedy, University of Maryland, 1999 Maria S. Diaz, Florida State University, 1999 Karla Jean Felker, University of South Carolina, 1999 Mary Beth Mercatoris, University of Texas at Austin, 2000 Sarah Schoper, Miami University of Ohio, 2000 Erin Reicks, Iowa State University, 2000 Cody Arvidson, University of North Texas, 2001 Kellie Johnson, Miami University of Ohio, 2001 Marcus Skjervem, Illinois State University, 2001 Jene Kapela, College of William and Mary, 2002 Christopher Wyckoff, University of South Carolina, 2002 Mitsu Narui, Bowling Green State University, 2002 Michelle Murphy, Azusa Pacific University, 2003 Maren Oates, Oregon State University, 2003 Tricia Seifert, University of Iowa, 2003 Lucy LePeau, Indiana University, 2004 Emily Bauer, Oregon State University, 2004 Marci Rockey, Illinois State University, 2004 Kristin Price, Oregon State University, 2005 Rachael Stimpson, Virginia Tech University, 2005 Jess Webb, University of St. Thomas, 2005 Victoria “Tori” Svoboda, University of St. Thomas, 2006 Erin Biddlecombe, Oregon State University, 2006 Meredith Malnar, Texas A&M University, 2006 40
- keywords: a&m; beth; carolina; clemson; college; fall; florida; green; green state; illinois; illinois state; illinois university; indiana; jeanine; journal; mary; maryland; michigan; noda; north; northern; ohio; oregon; orientation; outstanding; south; south carolina; southern; state; state university; texas; university; vermont; ward
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- jcotr-2683
- author: Harper, Casandra E.; Keup, Jennifer R.; Brewer, Beth
- title: Using 30 Years of Institutional Data to Discover Critical Trends Among Freshmen
- date: 2007-12-01
- words: 7565
- flesch: 48
- summary: Meanwhile, between 1987 and 2006 there was a 9% increase in the proportion of entering freshmen for whom English was not their first language, thus suggesting that native language has been an emerging area of diversity among UCLA students. Further, these data are used to identify changes over time and generational shifts in entering student cohorts that may mirror national trends or indicate the rise of generational influences that are unique to one institutional context.
- keywords: ability; academic; american; analysis; areas; aspirations; assessment; average; career; categories; category; change; characteristics; cirp; cohorts; college; confidence; counseling; critical; data; degree; denzine; education; expectations; experiences; fall; figure; freshman; high; higher; incoming; increase; information; institutional; interests; item; journal; korn; national; new; number; orientation; past; percentage; personal; preparation; proportion; research; respondents; response; school; self; social; students; survey; table; time; transition; trends; ucla; values; volume; year
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- jcotr-2684
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: A Look Back…
- date: 2007-12-01
- words: 165
- flesch: 39
- summary: Three articles were selected to be reprinted, representing three areas of ongoing interest for the profession: student staff selection and training using a theoretical model; a national overview of orientation programs, including program design, personnel, fees, and emphases; and suggestions for creating balance for student personnel professionals. While each article is a product of its time, there is much in each that has value for orientation professionals in 2007.
- keywords: journal; orientation; transition
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- jcotr-2685
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: Editor's Note
- date: 2007-12-01
- words: 557
- flesch: 44
- summary: Since that time, some of the original theories have expanded to become more inclusive while in other cases new theories and models have evolved that are more inclusive of groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education. However, this rich theory is also supplemented by knowledge from second- and third-generation theorists and interpreters such as Clyde Parker, L. Lee Knefelkamp, and Carol Widick (for their creation of the concept of development instruction) and Carol Gilligan (a pioneer in the area of women’s moral and ethical development) as well as by newer theories of racial, ethnic, sexual, gender, and class identity.
- keywords: development; mueller; orientation; perry; pope; practice; reynolds; student; theories; theory
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- jcotr-2686
- author: Wanzek, Robert P.
- title: Perry's Theory: A Model For Paraprofessional Selection And Training
- date: 2007-12-01
- words: 2387
- flesch: 52
- summary: Faculty and student development in the 80s: Using student development theory as a tool in academic advisement.
- keywords: authority; college; commitment; communication; cues; development; information; journal; knefelkamp; making; model; objective; orientation; paraprofessionals; perry; personal; position; process; research; right; role; selection; self; stage; student; theory; training; type; university
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- jcotr-2687
- author: Whyte, Cassandra B.
- title: An Additional Look At Orientation Programs Nationally
- date: 2007-12-01
- words: 2047
- flesch: 38
- summary: Most students are overloaded with information during orientation programs and the stressful transition period for new students must be recognized when planning information for students (Klosterman & Merseal, 1978; Knott & Daher, 1978). Other questions provided information about program design, personnel, fees, program emphasis, projected outlook for orientation efforts in the future, and evaluation of orientation programs.
- keywords: academic; activities; additional; college; data; directors; efforts; evaluation; group; higginson; information; journal; mail; methods; moore; needs; new; orientation; personnel; populations; programs; registration; research; respondents; special; students; survey; time; universities; white; year
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- jcotr-2688
- author: Barnes, Richard B.
- title: Energizing Strategies For Sudent Personnel Professionals
- date: 2007-12-01
- words: 704
- flesch: 29
- summary: Develop and Maintain a Sense of Humor and Optimism — Find ways to brighten up your work setting — Be cautious of sarcastic remarks—they tend to be very de-energizing — Learn to laugh at yourself — Verbally point out positive behavior to co-workers Develop and Maintain Your Physical Dimension — Take an active role in your physical health—choose a proper diet and exercise regularly — Listen to and appreciate your body needs — Get an adequate amount of rest Develop and Maintain Your Emotional Dimension — Make and take time for yourself — Share your feelings with appropriate others — Accept your feelings without guilt — Establish a personal identity outside your work setting — Accept your flaws Develop Relaxation and Recreational Activities — Take time within each day to relax — Become an “enthusiast” of some form of recreation or hobby — Realize the value and importance of “playing” — Learn relaxation techniques that work for you 78 THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION AND TRANSITION Accept Limitations — There is never enough time — Not everybody cares — There is not enough money — You only have a finite amount of personal energy—use it well — We all make mistakes and will continue to do so Summary It should be noted that when we operate from a purely reactive position this may often result in feelings of frustration and stagnation due to a sense of a lack of control in our work setting. FALL 2007 • VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1 77 Utilize Planning Strategies — Outline and review daily, weekly, and semester tasks — Set priorities — Develop time management techniques that work for you — Ask yourself: “What is the best use of my time right now?” Develop and Use a Support Network — Continuously clarify expectations between yourself, co-workers, and supervisors — Develop a personal list of consultants — Utilize support and advice from colleagues at other institutions — Develop and maintain a resource file Review Your Sense of Purpose — Review personal and professional roles—how do they fit in with each other?
- keywords: colleagues; fall; journal; number; personal; setting; strategies; student; time; use; volume; work
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- jcotr-2689
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: Editor's Note
- date: 2008-09-01
- words: 898
- flesch: 43
- summary: NODA Journal Spring 2008.indd SPRING/SUMMER 2008 • VOLUME 15, NUMBER 2 5 Editor’s Note Denise L. Rode This 2008 Spring/Summer edition of The Journal of College Orientation and Transition brings a variety of articles to enhance the work we do as graduate students and professionals in the field of new student orientation and transition. This article could provide the basis for a fascinating discussion among those on any campus who are concerned with the affective domain as it relates to new student transition.
- keywords: article; campus; college; development; family; identity; issue; journal; new; orientation; spring; students; summer; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2690
- author: Johnson, Vanessa K.; Gans, Susan E.; Kerr, Sandra; Deegan, Kelly
- title: Managing the Transition to College: the Role of Family Cohesion and Adolescents' Emotional Coping Strategies
- date: 2008-09-01
- words: 6838
- flesch: 44
- summary: Similarly, no significant differences were indicated in participants’ spring semester academic adjustment between emotion avoiders from cohesive families and emotion managers or emotion avoiders from non-cohesive families. We found no significant differences in spring semester personal/emotional adjustment between emotion managers from cohesive families and participants SPRING/SUMMER 2008 • VOLUME 15, NUMBER 2 41 from non-cohesive families who were either emotion managers or emotion avoiders.
- keywords: academic; academic adjustment; adjustment; adolescents; angry; assessment; avoiders; children; cohesion; cohesive; cohesive families; cohort; college; college adjustment; college year; coping; differences; emotion; emotion avoiders; emotion emotion; emotion managers; emotional; emotional adjustment; fall; fall semester; families; family; feelings; functioning; gottman; johnson; journal; managers; mean; meta; non; organization; parents; participants; perceptions; personal; present; psychology; relationship; relative; report; research; second; semester; significant; social; spring; spring semester; strategies; students; study; summer; time; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2691
- author: Abreu-Ellis, Carla; Knight, William; Ellis, Jason Brent
- title: Regular Versus Shorter Orientation: A Comparison Study of Student Characteristics and Retention
- date: 2008-09-01
- words: 4763
- flesch: 49
- summary: Moxley, Najour-Durack, and Dumbrigue (2001) noted “a principal vehicle of awareness building is student orientation or familiarization. This study found that students who attended shorter orientation sessions were less likely to live in learning communities; however, students who attended the shorter orientation session were more likely 66 THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION AND TRANSITION to join multicultural programs.
- keywords: academic; age; campus; characteristics; college; community; credit; difference; education; ethnicity; fall; gender; gpa; higher; hours; journal; late; learning; likely; n =; number; orientation; orientation session; programs; regression; regular orientation; research; results; retention; semester; shorter orientation; spring; state; students; study; table; total; transition; university
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- jcotr-2692
- author: Siegel, Michael J.
- title: The Use of Ritual and Ceremony in Strengthening Institutional Affiliation Among First-Year Students
- date: 2008-09-01
- words: 6231
- flesch: 46
- summary: The following are items that practitioners (both at large and small and public and private institutions) should consider when identifying, documenting, and celebrating campus rituals and ceremonies for the purposes of community-building and culture transmission: • Institutions should organize a group of individuals on campus who have a vested interest in the culture of the academy and who would serve the campus as arbiters of campus traditions. Similarly, institutions will want to be careful not to promote or endorse campus rituals that are, at best, deleterious to the well-being of the institution, and at worst, exclusive and even demeaning. • Examine the language and messages that are sent by the college community before, during, and after campus rituals, noticing any themes that emerge.
- keywords: activities; affiliation; aspects; august; behavior; beliefs; beyer; campus; campus culture; campus rituals; campuses; ceremonies; ceremony; college; community; convocation; cultural; culture; day; education; environment; events; experience; fall; forms; graduation; higher; important; induction; institutional; journal; kenyon; kuh; language; life; mary; meaning; narrative; new; number; organizational; orientation; paper; passage; people; perspective; practitioners; process; properties; rites; ritualistic; rituals; role; salem; small; spring; students; study; summer; symbolic; terms; texas; traditions; transition; trice; universities; university; use; values; volume; way; williams; year
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- jcotr-2693
- author: Miles, Jennifer; Miller, Michael; Nadler, Daniel P.
- title: Increasing Participation in Student Governance Through First-Year Programs
- date: 2008-09-01
- words: 3156
- flesch: 42
- summary: By building activities, experiences, and opportunities into new student orientation programs, students can become engaged and develop the habits of interaction and involvement that will last throughout their collegiate careers (Goodfellow, Cresswell-Yeager, & Felty, 2005). Through new student orientation programs, where expectations and cultural norms are conveyed to the society’s (college’s) new citizens (new students), certain activities might result in greater involvement and investment.
- keywords: activities; arts; campus; college; comprehensive; directors; education; engagement; experience; governance; government; higher; involvement; journal; liberal; mean; miles; national; new; orientation; overall; participation; programs; research; respondents; result; self; social; society; spring; strategies; strategy; student; study; summer; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2694
- author: Lounsbury, John W.; Richardson, John D.; Saudargas, Richard A.; Levy, Jacob J.
- title: An Investigation of Extracurricular Activities in Relation to Sense of Identity of College Freshmen
- date: 2008-09-01
- words: 3191
- flesch: 51
- summary: However, several activities in this group do not fit neatly into one single vector in Chickering and Reisser’s model or any other classification of student activities we could find in the extant literature on college student affairs or development. However, there has been surprisingly little research on what kinds of student extracurricular activities are related to identity achievement.
- keywords: achievement; activities; adolescence; astin; bass; chickering; college; correlations; development; different; extracurricular; francisco; friends; gibson; identity; jossey; journal; leisure; life; lounsbury; number; orientation; personal; personality; reisser; research; results; san; saudargas; scale; sense; significant; social; spring; student; study; time; transition; volume
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- jcotr-2695
- author: Bentrim-Tapio, Erin; Sousa-Peoples, Kim
- title: Student Learning Outcomes Assessment for an Orientation Program: A "SOARing" Transformation
- date: 2008-09-01
- words: 1533
- flesch: 52
- summary: The mission statement of the Office of Orientation & Family Programs was the primary starting point for identifying target areas to transition from a satisfaction-heavy survey to one that also encompassed student learning outcomes. Findings did provide empirical evidence of student learning outcomes.
- keywords: academic; assessment; campus; classes; council; family; learning; new; office; orientation; outcomes; planning; process; program; questions; satisfaction; session; soar; student; survey; transition; university
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- jcotr-2696
- author: Barrett, Kimberly; Bonneville, Jacqueline
- title: Emptying the Nest
- date: 2008-09-01
- words: 1269
- flesch: 65
- summary: Parents can be bolstered by the fact that getting children to successfully “empty the nest” results in a silver lining. Through this process, children seem to get a sense of unconditional positive regard from us and come to understand that what they have to say is important.
- keywords: bureaucracy; children; choices; college; daughter; day; good; home; important; journal; lives; need; nest; new; orientation; parents
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- jcotr-2697
- author: Howard, Sarah E.; Roldan-Schieb, Gloria
- title: Communication, Cooperation and Collaboration: The Merging and Partnering of New Student Orientation and Student Activities/Student Organizations
- date: 2008-09-01
- words: 1000
- flesch: 41
- summary: After the merger, New Student Orientation gained additional student workers to assist student questions about orientation and mentoring, to help out at events, and to help with organizational efforts. This layout helps with cross-training of professional and student staff on handling office business procedures and with handling student questions about orientation, student activities/organizations, and other miscellaneous university questions.
- keywords: activities; help; mentor; new; office; organizations; orientation; program; questions; staff; student; time; units; university
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- jcotr-2698
- author: Ray, Darrell C.
- title: Shedding Light on Sophomores: An Exploration of the Second College Year (Monograph No. 47)
- date: 2008-09-01
- words: 1515
- flesch: 37
- summary: The first chapter provides the monograph’s context by expanding on the development of sophomore students. A discussion of ways to connect sophomore students to academically purposeful activities, including undergraduate research, advising, career planning, major exploration, leadership development, study abroad programs, and student mentoring, is also presented.
- keywords: academic; activities; campus; chapter; college; development; efforts; events; experience; exploration; initiatives; institutions; kennesaw; major; monograph; needs; programs; retention; second; sophomore; spring; students; study; sye; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2699
- author: Wolfman, Abbey; Murphy, Daniel W.
- title: Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities
- date: 2008-09-01
- words: 1665
- flesch: 47
- summary: Even more shocking than the details that sorority members were willing to share with Robbins are the attitudes about hazing shared by the women highlighted in the book. Robbins provides her own reflection on her year in the life of sorority women.
- keywords: campus; chapter; conference; examples; fraternities; girls; greek; guidelines; hazing; house; life; members; month; national; organizations; orientation; personal; robbins; sororities; sorority; spring; system; university; values; women; year
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- jcotr-2700
- author: Hale, Jessica A.
- title: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
- date: 2008-09-01
- words: 1291
- flesch: 57
- summary: There are a number of ways to make people care, including piggybacking on the emotions of other ideas, appealing to self-interest (“What’s in it for me?”), and appealing to identity (“Don’t mess with Texas”). There are often multiple agendas or multiple messages being relayed at once, but the power of a simple message comes from its singularity.
- keywords: action; authors; book; brothers; chapter; core; credibility; examples; experience; heath; idea; message; number; orientation; people; principles; research; sticky; stories; students
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- jcotr-2701
- author: Garcia Falconetti, Angela M.; Jones, Joyce T.
- title: The Community College Transfer Student and Articuation Services in Selected Florida Public Universities: Myths and Realities
- date: 2009-06-01
- words: 7666
- flesch: 48
- summary: As four-year institutions configure future student services, the demographics, enrollment patterns, and individual needs of community college transfer students must be considered. The difference question proposed for the study and analyzed using binary logistic regression analysis was: Is there a statistically significant (p =. 05) difference in the academic success and persistence of community college transfer students and FTIC (native) students who are seeking baccalaureate degrees in Florida’s State University System? Six selected factors that represent academic success and timely completion for community college and FTIC student graduates were: (a) changes in major, (b) cumulative semesters completed to graduate, (c) final GPA, (d) number of 1000 and 2000 level hours taken at the senior institution, (e) number of breaks in continuous enrollment (stop out), and (f) total semesters enrolled.
- keywords: academic; administrators; age; analysis; articulation; baccalaureate; campuses; changes; college; college students; college transfer; community; community college; cumulative; data; demographic; dropouts; education; enrollment; factors; fau; fewer; final; findings; florida; ftic; ftic students; gpa; graduates; higher; hours; institutions; journal; level; logistic; majority; new; number; orientation; participants; persistence; practice; profile; programs; public; regression; research; review; sample; semesters; services; shock; significant; spring; state; students; study; success; support; table; total; transfer; transfer students; transition; unf; universities; university; uwf; volume; year
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- jcotr-2702
- author: Black, Brittney; McKenzie, Brenda
- title: Proving Our Value: Developing a New Student Orientation Assessment Plan
- date: 2009-06-01
- words: 2077
- flesch: 62
- summary: NODA Journal 16_1.indd SPRING 2009 • VOLUME 16, NUMBER 1 25 Proving Our Value: Developing a New Orientation Assessment Plan Brittney Black and Brenda McKenzie “First year programs that survive and thrive likely share a common link—a strong outcome assessment agenda that is closely connected to program goals” (Swing, 2001). This goal correlated with a number of mandatory sessions for new students during the Week of Welcome program.
- keywords: assessment; campus; college; data; development; events; goals; new; number; orientation; plan; process; program; questions; research; resources; results; rpie; sessions; staff; students; surveys; time; wow
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- jcotr-2703
- author: Hicks, Terence; Bey, Juanita Ashby; Lewis, Leontye; Harpe, J. Michael; Keane, Francis
- title: Correlates of Alcohol Consumption, Drug Usage, Sexual Behaviors, and Knowledge About HIV/AIDS Infection Among Traditional College Students
- date: 2009-06-01
- words: 5971
- flesch: 51
- summary: In one peculiar study of this population of college students, drinking patterns of Black college students were found to be characterized as light to moderate, with a limited amount of heavy drinking (Thurston, 1982). A majority of college students (38.9%) indicated that they “never” drink alcohol, 23.3% indicated that they drink “once a month,” 26.8% indicated that they drink “2–4 times a month,” 8.7% indicated that they drink “2–3 times a week,” and 2.3% indicated that they drink “4 times a week or more.”
- keywords: african; aids; alcohol; american; american college; answer; attitudes; authors; behaviors; black; campus; college; college health; college students; condom; consumption; drink; drinking; drug; findings; glasses; health; hicks; hiv; illegal; infection; intercourse; issues; journal; knowledge; life; method; month; national; number; occasion; orientation; question; rate; research; results; risk; sexual; sexual intercourse; spring; students; studies; study; survey; table; times; traditional; transition; university; use; week; year
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- jcotr-2704
- author: Buckley, Jennifer L.
- title: The Value of Physical Education and Wellness for the First-Year Student
- date: 2009-06-01
- words: 3484
- flesch: 45
- summary: A study conducted by Welle and Kittleson (1994) looked at the impact of college health education and physical education courses on personal wellness. Furthermore, “physical education courses on the other hand saw no significant improvement in wellness scores” (¶ 30).
- keywords: activity; adams; center; college; complete; course; disease; education; experience; fitness; freshman; gardner; general; health; hensley; higher; hour; impact; institutions; journal; life; lifestyle; oral; personal; physical; physical activity; physical education; required; requirement; roberts; state; students; study; undergraduate; universities; university; upcraft; wellness; year
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- jcotr-2705
- author: Saunders, Dana; Sousa-Peoples, Kim; Whiteside, Carrie Brunt
- title: Students and Families: So Happy Together
- date: 2009-06-01
- words: 1677
- flesch: 51
- summary: The recent proliferation of Web sites, associations, and conferences dedicated to all things related to college families indicates the impact of parents and family members on the collegiate landscape. Students and family members alike appreciated the additional time to discuss issues that had arisen during the day.
- keywords: academic; advising; college; day; dessert; families; family; happy; involvement; members; orientation; parents; program; reception; registration; soar; students; time; university
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- jcotr-2706
- author: Hale, Jessica
- title: Clicker Technology: Actively Engaging Students in Orientation
- date: 2009-06-01
- words: 1454
- flesch: 49
- summary: Clicker technology (also called student response systems, classroom response systems, or audience response systems) is a classroom communication tool designed to solicit and report feedback from students during presentations. Student response systems: A University of Wisconsin system, Study of clickers (Research Bulletin, Issue 10).
- keywords: clickers; college; count; dunn; education; engaged; journal; learning; non; oblinger; orientation; parent; presentations; research; responses; students; systems; technology; traditional; wcc
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- jcotr-2707
- author: Cooper, Jacqueline
- title: The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset
- date: 2009-06-01
- words: 1125
- flesch: 62
- summary: He divides the concept of attitude into what attitude can and cannot do for you and concludes this section with a thorough discussion of what defines as attitude obstacles. Fighting off the old cliché that “attitude is everything” (p. 1), Maxwell holds that “attitude isn’t everything, but it is one thing that can make a difference in your life” (p. 2).
- keywords: attitude; book; change; difference; failure; fear; life; maxwell; orientation; people; problem; right
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- jcotr-2708
- author: Cook, Les P.
- title: Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: A Guide for College Students
- date: 2009-06-01
- words: 1581
- flesch: 50
- summary: Student leaders show conviction, passion, and commitment on our campuses every day. I would strongly suggest this book for student leaders, student affairs staff, and anyone who works with students on our campuses.
- keywords: able; authors; college; consciousness; different; good; important; intelligent; leaders; leadership; model; organization; orientation; self; students; understanding
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- jcotr-2709
- author: Wiese, Dennis
- title: Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled and More Miserable Than Ever Before
- date: 2009-06-01
- words: 1531
- flesch: 43
- summary: Twenge argues that GenMe students expect good grades and high praise, and their egos feel assaulted when either is missing. GenMe students firmly believe that they can be whatever they want regardless of experience, education, perseverance, or ability.
- keywords: accepted; american; author; chapter; characteristics; college; culture; current; data; education; esteem; faculty; focus; generation; genme; howe; millennials; number; opinions; personal; rules; self; social; strauss; students; twenge
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- jcotr-2710
- author: Silverman, Scott
- title: Creating Community Online: The Effects of Online Social Networking Communities on College Students' Experiences. How Can Student Affairs Professionals Best Respond to this Emergent Phenomenon?
- date: 2009-12-01
- words: 10682
- flesch: 45
- summary: As universities consider interventions or other programs to incorporate student online activity into their work, the quality and quantity of student involvement in online social networking should be taken into account. However, evaluating student involvement in a physical time and energy sense is still contingent on traditional definitions of student involvement—that is, spending time and energy on campus or at least in-person with other students.
- keywords: activities; affairs; analysis; astin; behaviors; benefits; campus; class; college; college students; communication; communities; community; concerns; content; data; development; drawbacks; educate; educational; effects; engagement; experiences; facebook; fall; focus; friends; granovetter; groups; help; higher; individuals; information; institutions; interactions; interests; involved; involvement; issues; journal; liability; life; lives; maslow; myspace; need; networking; networks; new; number; office; online; online communities; online social; orientation; osns; participation; person; policies; potential; practitioners; professionals; programs; questions; research; residence; responses; role; schlossberg; school; sense; similar; social; social networks; staff; student affairs; students; study; stutzman; support; survey; technology; theory; time; transition; universities; university; usage; usc; use; volume; ways; web
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- jcotr-2711
- author: Hadley, Wanda M.
- title: The Transition and Adjustment to First-Year Students with Specific Learning Disabilities: A Longitudinal Study
- date: 2009-12-01
- words: 6448
- flesch: 45
- summary: College students with learning disabilities are not covered by this legislation. Students with learning disabilities in the pre- kindergarten through twelfth grade (PK–12) educational system are protected by the Education of All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1990/Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) of 2004.
- keywords: academic; accommodations; act; assignments; autonomy; campus; career; chickering; classes; college; development; disabilities; disability; dyslexia; education; emotions; environment; expectations; female; focus; goals; group; hadley; hard; high; higher; homework; identity; individual; issues; journal; learning; learning disability; level; new; orientation; pk–12; problems; professors; purpose; reading; reisser; research; school; self; services; students; study; support; system; transition; university; work; year
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- jcotr-2712
- author: Gurley, Kathleen; Herd, Ann
- title: Differences in the "Inclusion Need Orientation" of Students from a Historically Black University Versus Predominantely White Institutions
- date: 2009-12-01
- words: 4749
- flesch: 48
- summary: One of the keys to academic success for college students is feeling connected to their institutions by being actively involved in both academic and out-of-class activities (Bagayoko & Kelley, 1994; Datnow & Cooper, 1997). Although there has been considerable literature published on the comparison of HBCUs and PWIs, no research has been done using the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation (FIRO) theory developed by Schutz to identify differences in inclusion behaviors among college students at these institutions.
- keywords: academic; activities; adjustment; african; american; behavior; black; business; class; college; development; differences; environment; expressed; firo; group; hbcu; higher; inclusion; institutions; instrument; interpersonal; journal; learning; lower; needs; orientation; present; pwi; pwis; relationships; research; results; retention; school; schutz; scores; self; social; students; studies; study; success; support; theory; transition; universities; university; white
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- jcotr-2713
- author: Roszkowski, Michael J.; Ricci, Raymond A.
- title: Is Eighty Percent of Success Just Showing Up? Student Compliance and Refusal to Complete an Advisement Form as an Indicator of First-Term GPA
- date: 2009-12-01
- words: 4144
- flesch: 56
- summary: Moreover, since our sample consisted mainly of traditionally admitted students, Moore’s point applies to college students in general. Student motivation: How much can we really do?
- keywords: academic; achievement; cognitive; college; college gpa; compliance; correlation; critical; educational; enrollment; factors; form; gpa; high; high school; information; journal; math; measure; model; moore; motivation; multiple; non; orientation; performance; predictors; reading; regression; research; sat; school; school gpa; scores; sedlacek; semester; students; success; term; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2714
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: Lessons Learned from My Daughter's First-Year Experience
- date: 2009-12-01
- words: 2080
- flesch: 60
- summary: Living through her first year has informed my practice in a variety of ways. This jolt came after she had been recruited for the band and had spent three days of new student orientation at band camp.
- keywords: application; better; campus; college; course; daughter; deadlines; experience; fall; help; journal; lesson; new; orientation; parent; process; student; summer; time; transition; university; value; way; work; xyz; year
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- jcotr-2715
- author: Wade, Adam L.; Waryold, Diane M.; Crees, Nikki T.
- title: Satisfaction Guaranteed: Student Satisfaction of Orientation at Appalachian State University
- date: 2009-12-01
- words: 3906
- flesch: 43
- summary: Grades, graduation, and orientation: A longitudinal study of how new student programs relate to grade point averages and graduation. Results indicated that students were generally satisfied with their orientation experience.
- keywords: academic; appalachian; appol; asu; better; campus; college; corp; current; data; education; events; experience; fall; focus; group; higher; information; journal; leaders; new; number; orientation; phase; population; professionals; programs; questions; research; respondents; results; satisfaction; session; staff; standards; state; structure; students; study; survey; training; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2716
- author: Johnson, Melissa L.
- title: Philanthropy Competition Builds Community Among Honors Freshmen
- date: 2009-12-01
- words: 1707
- flesch: 60
- summary: Honors students who have participated in these opportunities are invited to participate on the panels to share the nuts and bolts of how they found these opportunities, what the experiences entailed, and what they gained from these experiences. When initially designing a first-year experience course for honors students in 2005, we wanted to help build community among all of the sections that we offered.
- keywords: box; club; community; competition; course; day; event; fall; field; girls; girls club; honors; items; philanthropy; point; prior; project; sections; semester; service; students; superchallenge; team; time; university; year
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- jcotr-2717
- author: Whitney, Rich
- title: Graduate Students in Transition: Assisting Students Through the First Year
- date: 2009-12-01
- words: 2063
- flesch: 51
- summary: This chapter offers a cogent view of student development theory—both theories of developmental change and college impact models—starting with Erikson (1950, 1959) and extending to theories and 84 THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION AND TRANSITION models specifically about graduate students. Thinking that graduate students arrive with an understanding of campus life and how to negotiate the culture may be correct in some respects, but at the same time it could be an overgeneralization.
- keywords: academic; campus; center; chapter; college; development; education; experience; faculty; graduate; identity; master; monograph; new; orientation; process; professional; programs; publication; reader; research; resource; school; section; students; theories; tokuno; transition; understanding; year; york
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- jcotr-2718
- author: Russell, Kathrine; Rode, Denise L.
- title: Multicultural Competence in Studen Affairs
- date: 2009-12-01
- words: 1949
- flesch: 38
- summary: The authors acknowledge, “Some of the [foundational] theories used by student affairs have expanded and changed, and other new theories have been developed in the past twenty years to accommodate diverse populations that were not included in the theories when first developed” (p. 31). Multicultural competence in ethics and professional standards is addressed in Chapter 6, where the authors remind us that the three essential values of student affairs are human dignity, equality, and community (Young, 1993).
- keywords: affairs; authors; awareness; book; change; chapter; competence; development; journal; knowledge; multicultural; order; orientation; pope; practitioner; professional; research; reynolds; skills; student; theory; training; volume
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- jcotr-2719
- author: Bell, Brent J.; Haberek, Nicolas; Zepko, Laura
- title: Orientation to the Student Role: What Do You Expect from Millennials?
- date: 2010-06-01
- words: 4715
- flesch: 51
- summary: We encourage people working in orientation to consider the role expectations and student role in the development of a student culture. Fortunately, orientation can set the tone for collaborative student roles.
- keywords: academic; ashforth; cohorts; collaborative; college; current; data; days; development; differences; different; education; effects; evidence; expectations; faculty; generations; gist; heri; higher; identity; important; individual; interactions; journal; millennials; model; needs; new; number; orientation; past; positions; prepared; pryor; report; research; researchers; results; role; rosenthal; self; social; staff; students; study; survey; theory; today; transition; university; work; year
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- jcotr-2720
- author: Waryold, Diane M.; James, J. Joy
- title: In Their Own Words: The Perceived Benefits of Participation in the First Ascent Wilderness Orientation Program
- date: 2010-06-01
- words: 4925
- flesch: 47
- summary: The effects of a wilderness program on college students. Although First Ascent is a short term program, it offers students opportunities to become familiar with ASU and serves as gateway into collegiate life.
- keywords: analysis; appalachian; ascent; asu; authors; bound; college; collegiate; comments; content; country; data; day; development; education; evaluation; example; experience; experiential; gass; goals; group; importance; journal; leaders; life; meaningful; natural; number; opportunities; orientation; orientation programs; outcomes; outdoor; outward; participants; personal; population; program; questions; research; self; solo; spring; staff; state; students; study; theme; time; transition; trip; university; unobtrusive; volume; wilderness; wilderness orientation; words; world; year
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- jcotr-2721
- author: Tovar-Murray, Darrick
- title: The Narrative Experiences of Undergraduate African American Male Students, 24 Years and Younger, who Successfully Transitioned to and Persisted in College
- date: 2010-06-01
- words: 5229
- flesch: 45
- summary: In other words, microaggressions tend SPRING 2010 • VOLUME 17, NUMBER 2 7 to negatively impact collegiate racial relationships, which can lead to undergraduate African American male students developing maladjusted behaviors at their respective institutions to cope with the stress associated with racism. How are selected undergraduate African American male students able to be persistent at predominant White colleges and universities?
- keywords: academic; african; african american; american; american male; black; campus; cognitive; college; data; drop; education; environmental; experiences; findings; focus; group; higher; journal; junior; male; male students; microaggressions; model; negative; non; number; organization; participant; peer; persistence; primary; programs; qualitative; race; racial; rates; relationships; research; results; role; school; social; spring; students; study; successful; support; themes; theory; transition; undergraduate; undergraduate african; universities; university; volume; white; year
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- jcotr-2722
- author: Hawthorne, Melissa; Young, Adena
- title: First-Generation Transfer Students' Perceptions: Implications for Retention and Success
- date: 2010-06-01
- words: 3555
- flesch: 41
- summary: In addition to culture, SPRING 2010 • VOLUME 17, NUMBER 2 33 participants were categorized based on generation of college student [i.e., first generation (n = 95) or second-generation (n = 83)] and transfer status [i.e., transfer (n = 90) or non-transfer (n = 88)]. Discussion With escalating numbers of college students failing to graduate, student attrition is increasingly relevant to academic administrators.
- keywords: academic; analysis; attainment; bachelor; college; commitment; community; community college; complete; culture; degree; differences; education; environment; factors; generation; higher; institutional; journal; levels; lower; minority; number; pascarella; perceptions; research; satisfaction; second; statistics; status; students; transfer; university; year
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- jcotr-2723
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: A Personal Interview With Dr. Margaret J. Barr
- date: 2010-06-01
- words: 3563
- flesch: 62
- summary: We’re like the “Dear Abby” of student affairs. Rode: As you look back at the profession over the years that you’ve been involved in student affairs, what would you identify as some of the “watershed” moments, events, or documents that have been formative for the profession and for yourself? Barr: I grew up professionally when The Student Personnel Point of View [1937, 1949] shaped much of our student affairs professional practice.
- keywords: affairs; association; barr; bass; board; college; different; directors; education; handbook; help; higher; important; institution; issues; jossey; journal; lives; new; northwestern; orientation; parents; people; president; professional; programs; rode; skills; student; texas; things; time; transition; university; vice; years
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- jcotr-2724
- author: Hendley, Julianna
- title: Orientation Leader Training: An Appreciative Advising Approach
- date: 2010-06-01
- words: 1730
- flesch: 52
- summary: Given today’s cutbacks in staff due to economic pressures and the increased responsibilities that orientation staff members must undertake, conducting several individual meetings with each new OL likely is not a realistic expectation. It is also important that professional staff members ask students to submit their goals for their leadership experience in orientation so that the staff can intentionally relate tasks to students’ goals.
- keywords: advising; appreciative; bloom; design; disarm; discover; dream; goals; group; journal; leaders; meetings; member; ols; orientation; phase; professional; questions; staff; students; training
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- jcotr-2725
- author: Dean, Samvedna
- title: No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process
- date: 2010-06-01
- words: 3258
- flesch: 57
- summary: Students may discuss potential drawbacks, if any, of Beavan’s methods. Students will likely not be overwhelmed by the exposure to current events as Beavan’s discussion on environmental concerns is buffered by the simplicity of his writing style and language, which is conversational and exoteric.
- keywords: awareness; beavan; book; college; common; community; current; discussion; environmental; experiment; flock; identity; impact; issues; journal; laufgraben; life; liljequist; man; new; number; people; personal; products; program; progress; project; reading; responsibility; sense; students; text; transition; way; ways; year
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- jcotr-2726
- author: Newhouse, Ben
- title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
- date: 2010-06-01
- words: 1626
- flesch: 59
- summary: He attacks Laila with full intent on killing her, but Mariam intervenes and kills Rasheed instead. While A Thousand Splendid Suns is the story of Mariam and Laila, the country of Afghanistan is an ever-present character.
- keywords: afghanistan; babi; book; child; city; country; daughter; family; father; home; laila; mariam; mother; new; rasheed; reading; soviet; splendid; students; suns; tariq; time; war
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- jcotr-2727
- author: Ward-Roof, Jeanine
- title: Preface
- date: 2010-09-01
- words: 380
- flesch: 46
- summary: This edition reviews 12 different types of books spanning a variety of broad topics and is divided into three distinct categories: common reading—general books which could be used with a variety of audiences; freshman interest groups—books that would be ideal to use in a freshman interest group setting— and books that address specifi c topics such as fi nancial responsibility, diversity, and vocational issues which could be used in a class, colloquium, or other setting with new or special interest groups of students. We are in the process of reviewing additional books and expect future editions to include publications from Penguin Book Group (USA); Jossey-Bass; as well as John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Stylus Publish- ing, Inc.; and individual authors and other publishers who sent books for review.
- keywords: books; edition; group; interest; journal; new; orientation; review; transition
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- jcotr-2728
- author: Ray, Darrell C.
- title: The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
- date: 2010-09-01
- words: 1277
- flesch: 53
- summary: The novel centers on the interaction, growth, and an eventual close, personal relationship that develops between Steve Lopez and Nathanial Ayers. When placed in the context of higher education, this novel connects with multiple points of the curricula and can challenge students to apply the information in a variety of ways.
- keywords: author; ayers; characters; disciplines; education; friendship; illness; impact; importance; life; lopez; mental; music; newspaper; novel; power; relationship; story; students
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- jcotr-2729
- author: Winter, Kris
- title: Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man’s Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See
- date: 2010-09-01
- words: 933
- flesch: 66
- summary: A Blind Man’s Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See by Erik Weihenmayer Published by Penguin Putnam Inc., 2002, 342 pages Reviewed by: Kris Winter (kris.winter@oregonstate.edu), Director, New Student Programs & Family Outreach, Oregon State University An inspiring biography, Erik Weihenmayer’s Touch the Top of the World is a narrative of emotion, triumph, setting goals, and pushing one’s self beyond boundaries. As a potential book for new student reading programs, this would certainly serve as a stirring and inspirational choice.
- keywords: author; blind; book; climbing; erik; eye; loss; new; self; students; touch; vision; weihenmayer; world
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- jcotr-2730
- author: Estes, Steven L.
- title: The Last Lecture
- date: 2010-09-01
- words: 2295
- flesch: 63
- summary: After using The Last Lecture in our common reading program at Northern Illinois University, many students were inspired to volunteer as peer instructors, citing enthusiasm for the book. In addition to students, though, the audience he hoped would embrace his message would be his three children when they are older.
- keywords: advising; appreciative; bloom; book; brick; chapter; coach; common; course; discovery; dreams; experience; fake; head; instructors; lecture; orientation; pausch; personal; phase; process; questions; reading; students; summer; walls; work; year; zaslow
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- jcotr-2731
- author: Calega, Shannon
- title: The Power of Giving: How Giving Back Enriches Us All
- date: 2010-09-01
- words: 1661
- flesch: 63
- summary: Finally, new students can partner with the volunteer or community outreach offices to find agencies in the community in need of volunteers. Ultimately, through giving back, new students may have an opportunity to find their voice on the campus community, leading to finding where they “fit” on campus.
- keywords: able; authors; book; chapter; corporate; giving; jamal; mckinnon; means; money; new; opportunity; point; potential; readers; students; ways; year
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- jcotr-2732
- author: Watson, Trish
- title: The Book that Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them
- date: 2010-09-01
- words: 954
- flesch: 67
- summary: While The Book That Changed my Life itself does not delve into the great mysteries in life, the commentaries provided are excellent conversation starters that have the potential to allow students to explore multiple viewpoints in dynamic group discussions. As a reader, I began to wonder just what it is that 16 SUMMER 2010 V O L U M E 1 7 , N U M B E R 3 is so magical about these books.
- keywords: book; essay; life; literary; new; pages; potential; reader; reading; students; technology; time; year
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- jcotr-2733
- author: VandeVoorde, Eric
- title: The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
- date: 2010-09-01
- words: 1569
- flesch: 58
- summary: Lighting a Spark The ninth practice focuses on “enrollment,” the art and practice of generating the spark of possibility for others to share. Lastly, the authors provide a final stepwise process, this time for attaining WE practices.
- keywords: art; authors; book; enrollment; experience; framework; leadership; life; order; possibility; practice; process; programming; readers; reality; spark; step; story; summer; year; zander
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- jcotr-2734
- author: Fleming, Jomita
- title: The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
- date: 2010-09-01
- words: 1002
- flesch: 54
- summary: However, the manner in which the book is written seems more directed toward high school students or younger. As the three doctors’ story is largely focused on their experience in higher education, it appears to be a good match for college students.
- keywords: academic; book; college; doctors; experience; high; men; pact; program; reading; school; social; story; students; text; university; young
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- jcotr-2735
- author: Weaver, Ella
- title: Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
- date: 2010-09-01
- words: 2062
- flesch: 58
- summary: In Happiness: Lessons From a New Science, author Richard Layard succeeds in some of those areas, yet falls short in others. One of the strengths of Happiness is that Layard presents a global perspective.
- keywords: author; book; chapter; common; eff; factors; family; goals; happiness; impact; increase; layard; life; new; people; problems; reader; reading; science; society; solutions; students; summer; wealth; world
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- jcotr-2736
- author: Greene, Meghan
- title: Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
- date: 2010-09-01
- words: 1484
- flesch: 67
- summary: After two years in the “mainstream,” J. T. grew frustrated with White people who possessed lesser skills than him receiving promotions ahead of him, and he returned to the projects and the gang (p. 29). J. T. explained to Venkatesh that he hoped to rise in the leadership of the gang and described a structure not so distant from that of other businesses in corporate America.
- keywords: book; buildings; children; community; gang; groups; illegal; leader; life; meals; new; people; projects; research; robert; school; taylor; venkatesh; women
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- jcotr-2737
- author: Bemus, Melissa
- title: Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
- date: 2010-09-01
- words: 1652
- flesch: 63
- summary: Esquith is quick to admit that fifth graders will not grasp the concepts immediately but that many students actually look at their behavior and that of their peers with new insight. The majority of students speak English as a second language and despite starting out with what might be perceived as obstacles, students in Room 56 are beating the odds and succeeding every year.
- keywords: activities; behavior; book; classroom; day; environment; esquith; evans; fifth; fire; forney; guido; hair; kohlberg; learning; patton; renn; room; school; stage; students; teach; thinking; world
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- jcotr-2738
- author: Hale, Jessica A.
- title: The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker
- date: 2010-09-01
- words: 1613
- flesch: 43
- summary: This review will provide background information on the author, an overview of the text, an analysis of its applicability to new student programming, and a conclusion with recommendations. While using this book in new student programming would be challenging, there are opportunities for collaboration across the curriculum.
- keywords: activities; american; book; chapters; class; cognitive; college; educational; educators; family; institutions; intelligence; makers; mind; new; occupational; research; rose; social; status; students; text; traditional; vocational; work; working; year
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- jcotr-2739
- author: Mudd, Sarah G.
- title: Extra Credit: The 7 Things Every College Student Needs to Know About Credit, Debt & Ca$h
- date: 2010-09-01
- words: 1405
- flesch: 66
- summary: However, when students make decisions about credit cards and student loans, they may not be thinking about how that debt may aff ect their ability to rent an apartment in the future. Sallie Mae, one of the country’s leading student loan companies, indicated in an April 2009 release that the number of college students with a credit card has increased, and nearly 82% of those students carry a balance from month to month (2009).
- keywords: account; americans; bill; book; cards; college; credit; debt; extra; finances; financial; individuals; likely; loans; mae; money; pratt; sallie; students; year
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- jcotr-2740
- author: Foote, Stephanie M.
- title: Using Student Narratives to Understand the Perceived Impact of First-Year Seminar Participation
- date: 2010-12-01
- words: 5374
- flesch: 57
- summary: The study found that participating in a first-year seminar contributed to students’ feelings of confidence in academic skills and abilities, as well as the connections they developed with their peers and seminar instructor. Through these interactions, participants developed friendships, and they became acquainted with seminar instructors whom they described as caring, friendly, helpful, concerned, and approachable.
- keywords: academic; class; classes; college; confidence; course; credit; data; early; education; experience; freshman; general; help; hours; impact; institution; instructor; journal; major; number; orientation; participants; people; perceptions; programs; research; section; seminar; skills; specific; students; study; time; transition; university; year; year seminar
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- jcotr-2741
- author: Norris, Jacquelyn M.; Mounts, Nina S.
- title: Parents, Peers, and Campus Involvement in the Transition to College
- date: 2010-12-01
- words: 7545
- flesch: 55
- summary: In an ethnically diverse sample of college students, adolescents whose parents aided their transition through these three types of support were more likely to have a sense of belonging to the university and were more likely to have lower levels of depression and loneliness. Rather, the technological devices that the current generation of college students has at their disposal are simply another means of carrying out the parenting that is experienced in face-to-face interactions.
- keywords: activities; adjustment; adolescents; alcohol; alcohol use; analyses; belonging; belongingness; binge; campus; college; college transition; current; days; drinking; drug; drug use; fall; friendship; higher; higher levels; important; investigation; involvement; items; journal; levels; likely; loneliness; lower; lower levels; mounts; number; orientation; parental; parenting; parents; participants; peer; percent; quality; relationships; research; results; sample; satisfaction; scale; school; social; students; study; support; transition; university; use; variables
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- jcotr-2742
- author: Connolly, Sara
- title: New Student Orientation in Online Education
- date: 2010-12-01
- words: 4130
- flesch: 49
- summary: Results suggest that online orientation programs are meeting the standards in some areas and missing them in others. In order to assess how online orientation programs fulfill the CAS Standards in the category of human resources, participants were asked a series of questions regarding their staffing patterns.
- keywords: advancement; areas; assessment; campus; cas; college; council; degree; education; environment; evaluation; face; faculty; financial; goals; group; higher; human; information; journal; largest; majority; mission; new; oldest; online; online orientation; orientation; orientation programs; participants; programs; research; resources; results; schools; self; services; standards; students; study; survey; transition; university
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- jcotr-2743
- author: Ward-Roof, Jeanine
- title: A Personal Interview With Dr. Jon C. Dalton
- date: 2010-12-01
- words: 1884
- flesch: 49
- summary: New students were processed by the thousands in a gym or cafeteria, listened to a lot of lengthy speeches, and concluded the whole experience in three to five days. Dalton noted that he did not know much about the field of student affairs but wanted very much to work in a college or university setting.
- keywords: affairs; campus; career; changes; college; dalton; development; education; enrollment; florida; journal; new; orientation; president; professionals; program; staff; state; students; time; transition; university; vice; work; years
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- jcotr-2744
- author: Hoston, William T.; Graves, Shanna L.; Fleming-Randle, Marche
- title: Individual Practices to Increase the Graduation Rate of African American Students at Predominantly White Colleges and Universities
- date: 2010-12-01
- words: 3561
- flesch: 43
- summary: Even though the enrollment of African American students at these institutions continues to increase, their completion rate remains low. This article explores an important question: What individual strategies are important for African American students to practice in an effort to graduate from PWCUs?
- keywords: academic; african; african american; american; american students; barriers; black; campus; class; college; education; ethnic; experience; faculty; graduation; higher; important; individual; institutions; instructor; journal; learning; matter; minority; number; practice; professors; programs; pwcus; racial; research; retention; social; stereotypes; strategies; students; study; subject; success; undergraduate; universities; university; white
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- jcotr-2745
- author: Zlotkowski, Lynn
- title: Where the Students Are: Using Social-Networking Sites in Summer Communication
- date: 2010-12-01
- words: 1431
- flesch: 60
- summary: New students move in on a Saturday, schedule classes on Monday, receive course schedules on Tuesday, and start class as fully matriculated students on Thursday. The Class of 2013 group gave new students an opportunity to tailor their CAMPUS NOTES Lynn Zlotkowski (lynn.zlotkowski@allegheny.edu) is an Assistant Director of the Learning Commons at Allegheny College.
- keywords: allegheny; august; class; college; commons; facebook; group; learning; mailings; new; orientation; sites; students; summer; twitter; year; youtube
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- jcotr-2746
- author: Guthrie, Kathy L.
- title: Service Leadership Seminar: A Unique Tool for Transition
- date: 2010-12-01
- words: 3145
- flesch: 53
- summary: The model is designed to aid educators in the development of college students as effective leaders (HERI, 1996; Komives et al., 2009). Essentially, the goal is to bring new students together and provide them with the tools for creating positive, sustainable change.
- keywords: change; college; comfortable; community; consciousness; development; facilitator; focus; group; items; komives; leadership; model; new; orientation; participants; personal; positive; post; program; research; scale; self; seminar; service; sls; social; srls; students; tool; transition; values; year
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- jcotr-2747
- author: Jennings, Janelle Perron
- title: Helping College Students: Developing Essential Support Skills for Student Affairs Practice
- date: 2010-12-01
- words: 2152
- flesch: 41
- summary: Reynolds educates her audience of student affairs practitioners, higher education professionals, faculty members, and graduate students by dividing the book into two distinct sections. The organization of the chapters, the flow of information, and the writing make the book approachable to student affairs practitioners from new professionals to senior administrators.
- keywords: affairs; areas; book; campus; challenges; chapter; college; core; counseling; essential; field; helpers; helping; issues; mental; orientation; practice; practitioners; professionals; reynolds; role; section; skills; strategies; students; theory; work
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- jcotr-2748
- author: Orefice, Brian M.
- title: Fostering Student Success in the Campus Community
- date: 2010-12-01
- words: 1654
- flesch: 33
- summary: Gary Kramer and Associates’ Fostering Student Success in the Campus Community is fundamentally about building campus partnerships—a practice that those involved in the coordination of new student orientation programs must master, given the nature of our work. Special attention is given to the role that program assessment plays within the development of student services.
- keywords: associates; authors; book; campus; chapter; college; community; development; faculty; information; institutions; learning; location; new; orientation; practices; professionals; program; services; student; success; torres; use; year
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- jcotr-2749
- author: Jones, Michael C.
- title: From War Zones to Classrooms: Student-Veterans' Perspectives on Transition
- date: 2011-06-01
- words: 5890
- flesch: 47
- summary: A unique characteristic the veteran orientation program at CCA is that all students, prospective and current, are able to register for the session and it was demanded by student veterans, their families, and many active duty personnel that attend the college (CCA, 2010). Deserving design: The new generation of student veterans.
- keywords: active; affairs; american; ashley; berkeley; campus; center; civilian; class; college; combat; community; culture; disability; duty; education; evans; experience; faculty; families; family; glasser; group; handbook; higher; home; important; information; injuries; institution; interview; iraq; january; journal; kyle; life; members; military; new; number; orientation; paul; personal; physical; postsecondary; psychological; reactions; readjustment; return; services; situation; spring; staff; state; stress; student; studentveterans; support; texas; time; transition; undergraduate; united; universities; university; veterans; volume; war; zone
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- jcotr-2750
- author: Peska, Scott F.
- title: One Size Does Not Fit All: Tailoring Orientation Services to Mid-Year Transfer Students
- date: 2011-06-01
- words: 5207
- flesch: 49
- summary: This research is based on the findings produced from two studies which detail different aspects of the unique adjustment experienced by mid-year transfer students at two different institutions. Specifically, this article addresses a gap in the scholarly literature pertaining to those aspects of adjustment that can be addressed in orientations for mid-year transfer students.
- keywords: academic; adjustment; aid; britt; campus; challenges; college; college transfer; community; community college; difficulty; education; employment; experience; fall; higher; hirt; information; institutions; journal; mid; national; new; number; orientation; persistence; personal; peska; population; process; programs; research; resources; services; social; specific; spring; statements; students; studies; study; time; townsend; transfer; transfer students; transition; unique; university; year; year transfer
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- jcotr-2751
- author: Haley, Karen J.; LaBanc, Brandi Hephner; Koutas, Peggy
- title: New School, New Job, New Life: Supporting the Transition of Student Affairs Graduate Assistants
- date: 2011-06-01
- words: 6927
- flesch: 48
- summary: Our findings not only support the work by Stephenson et al., but also suggest that students’ self agency was important in their GA positions, as well as their overall success as graduate students and new professionals in student affairs. Although graduate students frequently assume assistantship roles within student affairs units, and recent research has examined the skill development of student affairs GAs (Hephner LaBanc, 2010), the personal experiences of these students have yet to be fully studied.
- keywords: academic; affairs; agency; assistantships; colleagues; college; data; department; development; education; environment; experience; faculty; flora; gas; graduate; graduate students; higher; important; individual; job; journal; learning; level; networks; new; number; orientation; participants; position; practice; process; professional; program; qualitative; relationships; research; respondents; responsibility; role; schlossberg; school; self; sense; situation; specific; spring; staff; strategies; student; student affairs; study; success; supervisors; support; themes; theory; time; training; transition; university; volume; way; work; year
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- jcotr-2752
- author: Deggs, David
- title: Students' Adjustment to College: A Comparison of Orientation Program Attendees and Non-Attendees
- date: 2011-06-01
- words: 2639
- flesch: 47
- summary: Persistence and retention programming efforts should be diversified in order to adequately meet the needs of a myriad of college students, knowing that students may not opt to participate in some programs or place value on the social 50 THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION AND TRANSITION components of such programs. Summer orientation programs are among the most popular of transition programs and often include both academic and social components (Tinto, 1993).
- keywords: activities; adjustment; attendance; attendees; campus; college; data; different; education; experiences; freshmen; items; journal; knowledge; orientation; policies; program; respondents; retention; social; spring; students; study; summer; time; transition; university; value; year
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- jcotr-2753
- author: Waller, Tremayne O.
- title: Summer Bridge Inventory: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Evaluating First-Year Student Adjustment and Program Activities
- date: 2011-06-01
- words: 7860
- flesch: 49
- summary: Research confirms that college students have a difficult time adjusting to various aspects of college. In an earlier study, Consolvo (2002) stated that 30–40% of college students withdraw without ever returning to complete their degrees due to the transitional issues they faced in college.
- keywords: academic; activities; activity; adjustment; american; associate; bowling; bridge; bridge program; campus; chemistry; class; clusters; college; commitment; company; cook; course; data; dean; deviation; emotional; engineering; environment; fall; focus; following; fortune; fourth; freshman; general; goal; group; individual; information; institutional; inventory; journal; july; lab; male; math; mean; meeting; millennial; number; orientation; participants; people; personal; program; registration; related; research; ropes; sbi; sbp; scores; skating; social; spring; standard; students; study; subscale; summer; summer bridge; table; term; transition; university; volume; year
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- jcotr-2754
- author: Rielley, David F.
- title: A Personal Interview With M. Stuart Hunter
- date: 2011-06-01
- words: 3667
- flesch: 64
- summary: Many of them have had more opportunities than other students had years ago. I think FYE initiatives are less marginalized than they once were in the academy because the research and assessment-based evidence [shows] that these efforts make significant differences in the lives of students and in their success.
- keywords: able; academic; area; campus; career; change; college; education; experience; fact; field; focus; fye; help; hunter; important; information; institutions; journal; national; new; orientation; people; professionals; programs; research; rielley; spring; students; things; time; transition; university; work; world; year
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- jcotr-2755
- author: Silverman, Scott
- title: Reflections of an Advancing Professional
- date: 2011-06-01
- words: 816
- flesch: 68
- summary: I hope that at least a few of the students I have had the opportunity to supervise and mentor may go into student affairs, present at conferences, and work on college campuses. Here are some ways for all of us in student affairs to challenge ourselves and take time to reflect on our own journeys: 1) Experienced professionals: Spend some time reminiscing about your first orientation-specific job.
- keywords: campus; college; file; job; orientation; position; professionals; program; students; work
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- jcotr-2756
- author: Fleischer, Len
- title: Encountering Adulthood: College as a Rite of Passage
- date: 2011-06-01
- words: 1670
- flesch: 48
- summary: It is the objective of this project to convey an alternative vision to first year students, student leaders, and staff, faculty, and community mentors, to establish positive college experiences as a rite of passage to a healthy adulthood. The major goal of the grant initiative is to begin to develop an infrastructure and capacity at Keene State College that can address the particular challenges of a perceived rite of passage for beginning students.
- keywords: academic; adulthood; adults; college; community; development; education; experience; faculty; initiative; integrative; keene; learning; life; mentors; passage; place; program; rite; staff; state; students; thinking; transition; writing; year
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- jcotr-2757
- author: Baetz, Mark C.; Nitsch, Detlev
- title: Student-Led Sessions on Academic Integrity in Orientation: An Innovative Response to Academic Misconduct
- date: 2011-06-01
- words: 3722
- flesch: 44
- summary: Ambassadors’ feedback comments were subsequently incorporated into classroom presentations on academic integrity by faculty for encouraging further dialogue between faculty and students about the various issues associated with academic misconduct. While students do not always consider academic misconduct as unethical behavior (Cole & Kiss, 2000), there is an obvious connection between ethical values and academic integrity.
- keywords: academic; academic integrity; academic misconduct; ambassadors; business; cheating; college; comments; control; discussion; ethical; ethics; exhibit; faculty; feedback; formal; friends; high; integrity; issues; journal; mccabe; misconduct; orientation; personal; policies; positive; role; school; sessions; students; training; university; values; week
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- jcotr-2758
- author: McKenzie, Branda L.
- title: Transfer Student Companion
- date: 2011-06-01
- words: 983
- flesch: 48
- summary: Although the book is designed for the initial transition period, the authors strongly encourage transfer students to continue to refer to this book as a resource during their time in college. For example, authors advise transfer students to not assume that academic policies are similar at their former and current institutions and to verify that their new institution has received a final transcript from the last.
- keywords: academic; authors; book; chapter; exercises; help; major; making; process; students; success; tasks; transfer; transition; work
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- jcotr-2759
- author: Sedotti, Maria A.
- title: The Happiest Kid On Campus: A Parent's Guide to the Very Best College Experience (for You and Your Child)
- date: 2011-06-01
- words: 2054
- flesch: 58
- summary: New college students need to know that this is a normal pattern of behavior. They can do this by visiting the college website to learn more about specific areas including student life, academics, support services, counseling services, health services, events calendar, and other links.
- keywords: advice; author; best; book; campus; child; college; experience; help; information; life; new; orientation; parents; people; questions; rule; staff; student; truth; uncomfortable; urt; year
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- jcotr-2760
- author: Vigneri, Emily
- title: Organizing for Student Success: The University College Model
- date: 2011-06-01
- words: 1919
- flesch: 33
- summary: As Chapter 5 notes, well-planned assessment efforts are crucial to the sustainability of university college programs and services, in addition to wise management of resources. At many institutions, these crucial functions fall under the purview of a first-year organizational structure (FYOS) known as university college.
- keywords: academic; assessment; campus; case; center; chapter; colleges; education; faculty; institutions; learning; model; monograph; new; orientation; peer; programs; resources; services; staff; structure; students; success; support; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2761
- author: Mooney, Katherine; Stedman, Amber
- title: How to Survive Your Freshman Year (Fourth Edition)
- date: 2011-06-01
- words: 2225
- flesch: 46
- summary: In our experience as college students, forgetting these intangibles leads to difficulties that may have been otherwise avoided. In contrast to high school, college students have significant freedom to select classes, decide whether to attend class, and manage study time.
- keywords: activities; advice; affairs; book; campus; chapters; classes; college; contributors; editors; environment; family; freshmen; friends; hall; high; home; journal; life; living; new; orientation; quotations; residence; school; section; silverman; social; students; study; time; transition; university; useful; work; year
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- jcotr-2762
- author: Ward-Roof, Jeanine
- title: Preface
- date: 2011-09-01
- words: 221
- flesch: 54
- summary: This edition has a variety of books spanning such diverse topics as coming of age, love, urban farming, undocumented students, and perseverance. 3 SUMMER 2011 V O L U M E 1 8 , N U M B E R 3
- keywords: editor; new; program; reading; student
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- jcotr-2763
- author: Jackson-Buckner, Adrianne Musu
- title: Coming of Age in a Globalized World: The Next Generation
- date: 2011-09-01
- words: 1869
- flesch: 39
- summary: Unlike many novels or autobiographies assigned to new students for reading over the summer, Coming of Age is set up similarly to a textbook. Some concerns educators might have about selecting this text for new student reading are the book’s format and its potentially sensitive content.
- keywords: adams; age; authors; best; book; carfagna; citizenship; classroom; college; community; concepts; diverse; events; global; globalization; globalized; history; international; issues; learning; new; programming; reading; series; society; students; summer; text; university; world; year
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- jcotr-2764
- author: Trillizio, David
- title: Everything Matters
- date: 2011-09-01
- words: 781
- flesch: 56
- summary: The story begins with the main character, Junior, relating what his life is like in the womb, including his perspective about relying on his mother’s umbilical cord and temporary intrusions when his father finds his pregnant wife desirable. After Junior is born, his mother cannot devote equal time to both children, so Rodney begins spending time with his Uncle Rodney who hosts wild parties laden with alcohol and drugs.
- keywords: amy; author; book; character; family; junior; life; matters; mother; reader; rodney; story; time
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- jcotr-2765
- author: Pontious, Mark
- title: Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
- date: 2011-09-01
- words: 1999
- flesch: 61
- summary: Novella, however, is no uneducated, illiterate “hippie” trying to get back to the land, which is how she describes her parents and their experience of living in the 1970s. On top of mental acumen, Novella adds her own ironic, somewhat twisted sense of humor.
- keywords: birds; book; campus; chris; city; college; courses; discussion; experience; farm; farming; food; life; novella; opportunities; parents; pigs; situations; story; students; themes; urban; use; year
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- jcotr-2766
- author: Appel-Silbaugh, Cara D.
- title: Girl in Translation
- date: 2011-09-01
- words: 1466
- flesch: 52
- summary: Kimberly described her struggles in early high school experience, such as receiving a “daily current-events quiz” in social studies where her teacher did not understand why students “couldn’t simply watch the six-o’clock news each evening, or take a peek at [their] parents’ New York Times” (p. 133). Eleven-year-old Kimberly and her mother immigrated to the United States in the early 1980’s.
- keywords: american; asian; clothing; college; day; education; experience; factory; girl; higher; immigrant; kimberly; kwok; mother; new; pacific; population; poverty; report; research; school; students; translation
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- jcotr-2767
- author: Cassard, Courtney
- title: How Does It Feel To Be A Problem? Being Young and Arab in America
- date: 2011-09-01
- words: 1259
- flesch: 56
- summary: This book is the story of seven young Arab Americans living in Brooklyn and their experiences after September 11, 2001. Additional stories illustrate how Arab Americans, some Muslim, often feel like outsiders in their communities.
- keywords: americans; arab; bayoumi; book; brooklyn; bus; college; different; discussion; experiences; good; mother; muslim; people; rasha; september; students; university; world; young
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- jcotr-2768
- author: Shockley, Erica L.
- title: Just Don’t Fall: How I Grew Up, Conquered Illness, and Made It Down The Mountain
- date: 2011-09-01
- words: 1595
- flesch: 59
- summary: Josh’s motivational story has the potential to draw in a variety of readers through small groups or campus-wide initiatives and programming opportunities. Through candid snapshots of his life, Josh introduces the reader to the life-changing events and influential people that shaped his journey into adulthood.
- keywords: book; cancer; college; community; dream; end; family; goal; illness; josh; life; motivational; opportunities; people; personal; reader; speaker; story; students; themes; time
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- jcotr-2769
- author: Rollins, Anthony Dustin
- title: Learning as a Way of Leading: Lessons from the Struggle for Social Justice
- date: 2011-09-01
- words: 1322
- flesch: 51
- summary: Many students will walk away from this book feeling challenged and empowered with resources to help them perform social justice and leadership tasks within the contemporary society. The authors particularly emphasize “learning to support the growth of others” because it encourages members to actively participate in the community to which they belong.
- keywords: authors; book; change; community; contributions; group; important; justice; leadership; learning; members; order; paradigm; process; social; stephen; students; task
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- jcotr-2770
- author: McCarthy, Amanda
- title: Listening is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
- date: 2011-09-01
- words: 1562
- flesch: 56
- summary: Select StoryCorps interviews are broadcast on National Public Radio’s (NPR) Morning Edition, available on StoryCorps’ website, and compiled in Listening is an Act of Love. StoryCorps began recording interviews in 2003 and, at present, has gathered and archived more than 30,000 interviews involving more than 60,000 participants.
- keywords: act; activities; american; book; bus; campus; chapter; curricular; day; friends; history; interview; learning; listening; love; new; participants; reader; reading; selection; stories; storycorps; students; woman
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- jcotr-2771
- author: Crowe, Loni
- title: Miral
- date: 2011-09-01
- words: 1579
- flesch: 53
- summary: Miral by Rula Jebreal Published by Penguin Books, 2010, 309 pages Reviewed by: Loni Crowe (loni.crowe@eku.edu), Coordinator of Orientation and Family Programs, First Year Programs, Eastern Kentucky University Overview Miral takes the reader on a journey spanning nearly five decades, beginning with the establishment of the Dar El-Tifel orphanage and up through the founder, Hind Husseini’s, death in 1994. The story begins decades prior to Miral’s birth, and the reader follows her development and growth into a young woman during the 1980s.
- keywords: book; characters; conflict; dar; death; experiences; fatima; hind; israeli; jamal; life; miral; nadia; palestinian; political; religious; story; sub; tifel; time; work; young
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- jcotr-2772
- author: Murphy, Alyssa E.
- title: A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
- date: 2011-09-01
- words: 1374
- flesch: 63
- summary: In an interesting analogy Dwayne compares prison life to Lord of the Flies. He also describes what the judicial process was like for him as a young Black male, which he explains to be fairly consistent with other young Black men who have been convicted of crimes.
- keywords: betts; book; choices; consequences; dwayne; freedom; life; man; men; new; place; prison; prisoners; question; story; students; young
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- jcotr-2773
- author: Henderson, Brittany D.
- title: The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education
- date: 2011-09-01
- words: 1289
- flesch: 51
- summary: It describes situations in the author’s journey as a student that new students at any institution can relate to, as well as experiences that are likely to be dissimilar from their own. With the population of military veterans and active duty students quickly increasing on many college campuses, orientation and student affairs professionals are searching for ways to integrate this population into the campus community.
- keywords: author; book; campus; campuses; education; military; mullaney; new; oxford; point; program; reading; service; soldier; student; veterans; west; year
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- jcotr-2774
- author: Streit, Mackenzie R.
- title: We ARE Americans: Undocumented Students Pursuing the American Dream
- date: 2011-09-01
- words: 1921
- flesch: 52
- summary: Commuter Services could also benefit from the thoughts and voices of undocumented students, as many undocumented students are true commuters, often utilizing public transportation. The instructor could ask students to think about current adjustments they are making to college, and to imagine how that would be different if they were undocumented students.
- keywords: aid; american; author; better; book; college; community; discussion; financial; graduate; high; immigrants; new; perez; research; school; states; stories; students; summer; text; undocumented; undocumented students; united; university; work; year
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- jcotr-2775
- author: Wolcott, Gregory V.
- title: Orientation and Academic Advising: Essential Partners in New Student Success
- date: 2011-12-01
- words: 432
- flesch: 41
- summary: We hope the fruits of this labor will nourish your creative spirit with ideas for designing effective new student programs that successfully integrate academic advising and registration components on your campuses. What follow are several innovative models for academic advising, including appreciative advising, intrusive advising, and digital advising.
- keywords: academic; advising; edition; fall; noda; orientation; programs; special; student
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- jcotr-2776
- author: Hutson, Bryant L.; He, Ye
- title: Appreciative Advising Inventory: Identifying College Student Assets for Successful Transition
- date: 2011-12-01
- words: 5682
- flesch: 51
- summary: The results of the study indicated that college students who are placed on academic probation shared internal assets related to their commitment to learning and positive values. Third, taking the perspective of improving institutional services to meet the diverse and changing needs of college students, the AAI could be used as a tool to assist institutions in aligning key student academic and support services with facilitating students’ development of their assets.
- keywords: aai; academic; advising; analysis; appreciative; areas; assets; college; connectedness; course; data; development; education; experiences; external; fall; framework; goals; gpa; higher; hutson; identity; increase; institutions; instructors; instrument; internal; items; journal; learning; need; number; order; orientation; participants; past; personal; positive; post; probation; program; research; sas; self; services; skills; social; strengths; students; study; success; support; theory; time; transition; university; use; values; volume; year
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- jcotr-2777
- author: Walpole, MaryBeth; Chaskes, Jay
- title: Advising New Students with Disabilities: Challenges and Opportunities
- date: 2011-12-01
- words: 5193
- flesch: 53
- summary: Students were identified with the assistance of the campus center for students with disabilities and by the second author, a faculty member who uses a wheelchair. Students reporting disabilities also indicated they were less likely to talk with faculty about academics outside of class in 2003-2004, with 29% reporting that they never did so, 57% reporting that they talked with them sometimes, and 14% reporting having talked with them often, compared to non- 42 THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION AND TRANSITION disabled students who reported rates of 26%, 60%, and 14% respectively.
- keywords: accommodations; additional; advisors; advocacy; bureaucracy; center; challenges; class; college; college students; data; differences; disabilities; disability; disabled; disclosure; education; experience; faculty; fall; higher; journal; learning; levels; likely; meeting; new; non; number; opportunities; orientation; parents; peers; qualitative; report; research; self; semester; services; skills; students; swd; time; transition; volume; year
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- author: O'Brien-Gayes, Agatha; Spitze, Kerry
- title: A Case Study on Faculty and Professional Advisor Perceptions on Academic Advising
- date: 2011-12-01
- words: 5286
- flesch: 40
- summary: Concrete strategies to improve advising delivery were identified. There is little delineation made within the literature for perception and satisfaction between faculty advisors and professional advisors (Allen & Smith, 2008).
- keywords: academic; advisees; advising; advisors; allen; aspects; association; attitudes; campus; changes; college; communication; delivery; development; donnelly; education; experience; faculty; fall; field; findings; growth; habley; information; institution; issues; job; journal; lack; levels; members; national; number; overall; perceptions; policy; process; professional; professional advisors; promotion; research; respondents; responses; responsibility; results; rewarding; satisfaction; smith; student; study; support; survey; tenure; time; training; university; volume
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- jcotr-2779
- author: Buyarski, Catherine A.; Bloom, Jennifer L.; Murray, Joseph E.; Hutson, Bryant L.
- title: Engaging Families in Supporting their Students: An Appreciative Approach
- date: 2011-12-01
- words: 4862
- flesch: 53
- summary: Likewise, parents will benefit from talking to other parents of college students as they enter this new phase of parenting. NODA Journal 19_1.indd FALL 2011 • VOLUME 19, NUMBER 1 75 Engaging Families in Supporting their Students: An Appreciative Approach Catherine A. Buyarski, Jennifer L. Bloom, Joseph E. Murray, and Bryant L. Hutson Parents and families are a key factor in college student success.
- keywords: academic; advising; appreciative; best; bloom; campus; career; child; college; development; dreams; education; experience; fall; families; family; focus; framework; goals; help; higher; home; hutson; information; institutions; involvement; journal; life; model; new; number; orientation; parental; parents; phase; positive; questions; role; savage; specific; student; success; support; term; time; transition; university; volume; wartman; way
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- author: Propst Cuevas, Amanda E.; Robinson, Claire; Clark, Amanda; Hutson, Bryant L.; Bloom, Jennifer L.
- title: Adapting and Implementing Appreciative Advising Framework to Train Orientation Leaders
- date: 2011-12-01
- words: 4775
- flesch: 49
- summary: This appreciative approach to training student orientation leaders has the power to positively impact new students as well as the orientation leaders themselves. Fippinger (2009) noted that the benefits accrue to student leaders, the new students they serve, and to the offices and institutions that employ them.
- keywords: academic; action; advising; appreciative; approach; bloom; campus; college; conceptual; design; director; disarm; discover; dream; experience; fall; framework; goals; greet; help; important; incoming; information; institution; journal; leaders; new; number; orientation; orientation leaders; personal; phase; plan; positive; questions; relational; skills; students; time; toolbox; training; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2781
- author: Cuseo, Joe
- title: Academic Advising and the Student Transition to College: Current Issues, Emerging Challenges, and Potential Roles for First-Year Experience Professionals
- date: 2011-12-01
- words: 7291
- flesch: 46
- summary: College students are under increasing pressure to make commitments to major and career plans at a very early stage in their undergraduate experience, often without the programmatic support to do so. National surveys of entering college students repeatedly show that the most common reasons why new students enroll in college are “preparing for a career” and “getting a better job” (Sax, Bryant, & Gilmartin, 2004).
- keywords: academic; advising; advisors; attrition; bass; campus; career; center; chickering; choice; college; college major; college students; commitment; courses; decision; development; different; early; education; experience; faculty; fall; fields; francisco; gardner; gordon; higher; identity; institutions; interests; jossey; journal; learning; long; major; making; national; need; new; number; orientation; persistence; personal; planning; plans; policies; process; professionals; research; retention; san; stage; students; study; success; support; term; time; transition; undecided; undecided students; universities; university; vocational; volume; year; year experience; year students
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- jcotr-2782
- author: Levin, James; Hussey, Ruth
- title: Analyses of Majors: Providing Interactive Web-Based Resources to Assist Students in Developing Informed Educational Plans
- date: 2011-12-01
- words: 3984
- flesch: 47
- summary: NODA Journal 19_1.indd FALL 2011 • VOLUME 19, NUMBER 1 63 Analyses of Majors: Providing Interactive Web-Based Resources to Assist Students in Developing Informed Educational Plans James Levin and Ruth Hussey When students are aware of and choose majors that are congruent with their interests and abilities, college retention rates improve.
- keywords: abilities; academic; advising; alternative; analysis; application; biology; calculus; chemistry; college; courses; decisions; different; educational; engineering; environments; hussey; information; informed; interests; journal; levin; majors; making; math; mathematics; number; option; penn; physics; preferences; r-0; science; state; students; study; themes; total; unique; usage; use
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- jcotr-2783
- author: Hadley, Wanda M.
- title: Using the Intrusive and Nurturing Models when Advising African American College Students with Learning Disabilities
- date: 2011-12-01
- words: 1090
- flesch: 36
- summary: What makes students with learning disabilities an exclusive student group for the campus community is their educational experience in high school. Due to legislative mandates, high schools are required to identify students with learning disabilities and provide them course accommodations specific to their disabilities.
- keywords: academic; advising; advisors; african; american; campus; college; disabilities; institution; intrusive; journal; learning; orientation; services; students; university
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- jcotr-2784
- author: Tuthill, J.
- title: Open Minds and Open Doors: Advising at a Small Liberal Arts College
- date: 2011-12-01
- words: 1410
- flesch: 61
- summary: I have no doubt that many college students face the same struggle. While students can make use of office hours, meaningful conversations often occur in the dining hall or common spaces where students and faculty congregate.
- keywords: academic; advising; advisor; campus; college; conversation; course; experience; faculty; high; open; papers; requirements; school; small; students; time; year
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- jcotr-2785
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: A Personal Interview With Virginia N. Gordon
- date: 2011-12-01
- words: 3595
- flesch: 60
- summary: I think many students today are more worldly and open to cultural differences than those in the past. Many students are put on medication so much earlier now and that continues on into college.
- keywords: academic; advising; advisors; affairs; association; book; career; college; different; education; field; gordon; graduate; group; higher; important; journal; members; nacada; national; need; orientation; parents; personal; research; resources; rode; state; students; technology; time; transition; undecided; university; years
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- jcotr-2786
- author: Robertson, Heather; Trapani, Sandra; Hopkins, Ellen
- title: Advising and Orienting Transfer Students: A Two-Pronged Approach to Improving Transitions
- date: 2011-12-01
- words: 3928
- flesch: 46
- summary: These combined efforts were submitted to the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) as a best practice for new transfer students and have yielded positive results in relation to students’ connection to campus and satisfaction with orientation/advising. Colleges and universities across the United States have employed a variety of programs and services to meet the needs of new transfer students, including orientation programs, mentor programs, and orientation courses (Ward-Roof, Kashner, & Hodge, 2003).
- keywords: academic; advising; advisor; better; brook; campus; college; community; course; credit; data; day; experience; fall; format; group; institution; international; journal; large; major; math; new; number; orientation; outcomes; programs; registration; research; retention; semester; seminar; senior; session; staff; stony; students; time; transfer; transfer students; transition; undergraduate; university; year
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- jcotr-2787
- author: Knutt, Marcia; Cherestes, Alice
- title: FRACTAL: FReshman Advising Connection for Teaching and Learning
- date: 2011-12-01
- words: 2131
- flesch: 45
- summary: The director and freshman advisor are the common point of contact for students seeking assistance from various university services 120 THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION AND TRANSITION and act informally as liaison between the students and the student affairs, student services, and student life groups. Since 2008, there has been a commensurate modernization in recruitment style, including a freshman website, video, and involvement of the program director and freshman advisor in all stages of recruitment and orientation.
- keywords: academic; advising; advisor; campus; cherestes; courses; dhns; director; faculty; fall; fractal; freshman; initiative; learning; life; macdonald; majors; mcgill; number; professors; program; quebec; seminar; services; skills; students; teaching; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2788
- author: Novak, Peter; Wolcott, Gregory V.
- title: Digital Advising: How it Changed a University
- date: 2011-12-01
- words: 1607
- flesch: 52
- summary: Statistics indicate that 91% of students register for their courses online at USF after viewing the tutorial and taking the quiz, while 76% of incoming students felt that the follow-up phone call with a faculty member was helpful. Summer Advising and Registration The old model Most of you know the scenario—it’s early summer and incoming students have received the welcome packet and instructions with everything from immunization policies and orientation schedules to housing choices and information about the diverse range of student clubs and organizations.
- keywords: advising; classes; college; courses; digital; faculty; fall; incoming; major; online; orientation; program; registration; requirements; staff; students; summer; time; university; webtrack; year
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- jcotr-2789
- author: Schulenberg, Janet; Biek, Cynthia
- title: Introducing Academic Advising at Orientation: Penn State's Strategy
- date: 2011-12-01
- words: 2506
- flesch: 44
- summary: Many Penn State students who change academic directions did not begin their enrollment in DUS. NODA Journal 19_1.indd FALL 2011 • VOLUME 19, NUMBER 1 113 Introducing Academic Advising at Orientation: Penn State’s Strategy Janet Schulenberg and Cynthia Biek The First-Year Testing, Consulting, and Advising Program at Penn State introduces students to academic advising and the university’s academic structure.
- keywords: academic; advising; advisors; campus; change; class; college; decisions; division; education; enrollment; ftcap; goals; initial; interests; major; making; orientation; penn; pennsylvania; program; state; structure; students; studies; transition; undecided; undergraduate; unit; university; year
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- jcotr-2790
- author: Switalski, Rachael; Birou, Jeffrey
- title: Assessing the Advising Experience: Using Homegrown Assessment Tools to Improve Advising Practices
- date: 2011-12-01
- words: 3799
- flesch: 56
- summary: Students also self-identified as using the walk- in hours more, and the number of students who claimed that they never came in for a walk-in advising session dipped to 14.5%. Students arriving at the beginning of the fall term seemed to be in a state of perpetual panic.
- keywords: academic; advising; advisor; assessment; available; college; contact; data; efforts; experience; fall; following; freshmen; help; information; interactions; journal; mail; new; newsletters; number; office; orientation; outreach; plan; planning; questions; results; services; specific; staff; students; survey; table; term; times; transition; university; walk; year
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- jcotr-2791
- author: Rode, Denise L.
- title: Editor's Note
- date: 2012-06-01
- words: 1065
- flesch: 43
- summary: I encourage all orientation professionals to read Claborn and Kane’s recommendations for integrating and retaining students like me, as nearly every campus serves new students who struggle with adult separation anxiety disorder and may be at risk for departure. In fact, I lasted all of five days at my first choice university, overwhelmed by a whirl of orientation activities which other new students seemed to be taking in stride.
- keywords: anxiety; article; association; campus; college; edition; editor; generation; issue; jcot; journal; new; noda; orientation; past; professional; publication; stress; students; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2792
- author: Suarez, Roberto B.
- title: PCC Cascade START Lab: A "High-Tech, High-Touch" Approach to New Student Orientation
- date: 2012-06-01
- words: 4747
- flesch: 47
- summary: In Summer 2009, a new model for student orientation was proposed and deployed as a pilot program at the Cascade Campus of Portland Community College. Examining the impact of a comprehensive approach to student orientation.
- keywords: able; admissions; aid; application; approach; assessment; assistance; campus; cascade; classes; college; community; cultural; culture; experience; financial; help; impact; information; journal; lab; model; need; new; number; online; online orientation; order; orientation; pcc; person; pilot; placement; problem; process; program; registration; research; services; start; start lab; students; study; technology; term; testing; time; transition; volume; year
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- jcotr-2793
- author: Theroux, Ryan D.
- title: Gateways to Campus Culture: Exploring the Roles of Student Orientation Leaders
- date: 2012-06-01
- words: 3161
- flesch: 39
- summary: After visiting three public universities, the author discovered that while orientation directors were generally aware of the significance of cultural artifacts at their institutions, it was ultimately the student orientation leaders who passed on the meanings of these artifacts on to other students (both new students and new student orientation leaders). Sophomore involvement as peer leaders in new student orientation is beneficial in helping first- SPRING 2012 • VOLUME 19, NUMBER 2 43 year students adjust to a new environment (Branch, Taylor, & Douglas, 2003).
- keywords: artifacts; bass; campus; college; cultural; cultural artifacts; culture; directors; education; experiences; francisco; group; important; informal; institution; jossey; journal; kuh; leaders; meanings; new; orientation; orientation leaders; programs; role; san; school; significance; students; study; tours; traditions; university; year
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- jcotr-2794
- author: Futch, Christopher Y.; Guthrie, Kathy L.
- title: Orientation Programs: Perspectives of an Online Format
- date: 2012-06-01
- words: 3163
- flesch: 39
- summary: The overall purpose of student orientation programs has varied over the years. The issues in the challenges of online orientation programs and courses are important for those working in student orientation and student affairs because of the large gap between research and practice of these online formats.
- keywords: academic; affairs; article; benefits; campus; challenges; college; community; courses; education; face; formats; help; higher; information; institutions; international; journal; learning; need; new; online; online orientation; orientation; orientation programs; population; professionals; programs; research; resources; san; services; students; technology; tighe; time; transition; year
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- author: Claborn, Robyn D.; Kane, Steven T.
- title: First-Year College Students' Homesickness and Separation Anxiety: Implications for Orientation, Retention, and Social Integration
- date: 2012-06-01
- words: 4687
- flesch: 40
- summary: NODA Cover 19_2.indd SPRING 2012 • VOLUME 19, NUMBER 2 7 First-Year College Students’ Homesickness and Separation Anxiety: Implications for Orientation, Retention, and Social Integration Robyn D. Claborn and Steven T. Kane Severe homesickness in college students is considered by many mental health clinicians to be a manifestation of adult separation anxiety disorder (ASAD). Recent research suggests that while approximately 7% of adults have ASAD, as many as 21% of college students may suffer from the disorder.
- keywords: academic; adjustment; adult; anxiety; asad; attachment; college; college students; counseling; development; disorder; doi; emotional; environment; experience; gerdes; help; homesickness; integration; journal; life; needs; new; number; orientation; parents; process; programs; psychological; research; retention; risk; school; self; separation; separation anxiety; services; significant; social; strategies; students; study; support; symptoms; transition; university; wuyek; year
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- jcotr-2796
- author: Witkowsky, Patricia
- title: The Importance of Transition Programs for Doctoral Student Wellness
- date: 2012-06-01
- words: 6407
- flesch: 48
- summary: Given faculty members’ close contact with doctoral students throughout 106 THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION AND TRANSITION their degree program, their perspectives of the needs of new doctoral students should be explored. A majority of the studies of doctoral student experience explore individual, institutional, and societal factors affecting degree completion.
- keywords: academic; analysis; approach; bass; case; college; data; degree; development; doctoral; doctoral students; education; expectations; experience; faculty; female; francisco; gardner; graduate; higher; information; interview; jossey; journal; married; members; needs; nesheim; new; number; orientation; participants; process; professional; program; psychology; qualitative; relationships; requirements; research; san; semester; social; socialization; spring; stress; students; studies; study; support; themes; time; transition; understanding; university; wellness; work; year
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- jcotr-2797
- author: Gefen, Dalia R.; Fish, Marian C.
- title: Gender Differences in Stress and Coping in First-Year College Students
- date: 2012-06-01
- words: 5278
- flesch: 57
- summary: Despite its limitations, this study demonstrated the importance of assessing student stressors, levels of stress, and coping strategies in first-year college students. The most frequently cited theory of coping was developed by Folkman and Lazarus (1980) in which coping strategies were categorized as problem-focused vs. emotion-focused.
- keywords: academic; activity; adjustment; alpha; avoidance; college; college students; cope; coping; cronbach; differences; emotion; experience; family; females; financial; focused; gender; health; higher; items; journal; levels; life; number; orientation; participants; problem; psychology; questionnaire; relationship; research; results; scores; social; solving; strategies; stress; stressful; stressors; students; studies; study; support; table; transition; women; year
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- jcotr-2798
- author: Smith, Hollie Gammel; Rodine, Brooke; Williams, Audrey
- title: Using Student Learning Outcomes to Evaluate Orientation Programs
- date: 2012-06-01
- words: 3214
- flesch: 44
- summary: New student orientation programs promoting diversity. In this article, the authors also noted how new student orientations should include information relevant FEATURED ARTICLE Hollie Gammel Smith (hsmith@sfasu.edu) is the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs for Programs at Stephen F. Austin State University.
- keywords: academic; assessment; campus; college; education; freshmen; higher; incoming; information; integration; journal; learning; major; needs; new; online; orientation; outcomes; post; preand; programs; results; retention; scores; services; sfa; social; state; students; study; surveys; test; time; transition; university
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- jcotr-2799
- author: Tovar-Murray, Darrick; Metz, A. J.; Jones, Janice E.
- title: African American Male College Students' Transitioning Experiences at PWCUs and their Coping Strategies: A Qualitative Investigation
- date: 2012-06-01
- words: 5629
- flesch: 51
- summary: Understanding the transitioning experiences of African American males attending predominantly White colleges and universities (PWCUs) still remains an important area of research inquiry. For many decades, scholars have identified the personal cognitive variables that affect African American males’ academic and social integration at White institutions of higher learning.
- keywords: academic; african; african american; american; american males; black; campus; campuses; challenges; climate; cognitive; college; concerns; data; education; example; experiences; focus; general; group; help; important; journal; life; males; man; microaggressions; need; number; orientation; participants; pwcus; qualitative; questions; race; racial; racism; research; researchers; results; scholars; school; smith; social; solórzano; spring; strategies; stressors; students; study; success; themes; time; transitioning; university; volume; white; work
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- jcotr-2800
- author: H. Bane, Cynthia M.; B. Haymaker, Christopher M.
- title: An Improvisation, Mindfulness, and Stress Workshop for Incoming First-Year Students: A Pilot Study
- date: 2012-06-01
- words: 6292
- flesch: 49
- summary: The participants included 20 incoming first-year students, (12 men and 8 women) ranging in age from 18 to 20 years (M = 18.35, SD = .59), who chose the improvisation and stress management session as a team-building activity during orientation week in the years 2009 and 2010. College students encounter numerous stressors, including exams, time demands, financial pressures, changes in eating and sleeping habits, new responsibilities, increased workload, new relationships, career decisions, fear of failure, and parental pressure (Robotham & Julian, 2006).
- keywords: acceptance; action; activities; activity; american; approach; avoidant; brown; changes; clinical; college; coping; course; current; discussion; effective; emotions; experiences; facilitators; games; group; health; higher; improvisation; incoming; items; journal; management; measures; mindfulness; mood; negative; new; number; orientation; panas; participants; positive; pre; programs; psychology; questionnaire; research; results; ryan; sample; scale; scores; self; session; shapiro; skills; social; strategies; stress; students; study; subscale; theater; thoughts; time; transition; use; workshop; year
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- jcotr-2801
- author: Kranzow, Jeannine
- title: Considerations for Orientation Programming: Preparing for the Homeschooled Student
- date: 2012-06-01
- words: 3313
- flesch: 52
- summary: Strong family ties, home community, church, and prior connections with non- college friends seem to have more impact on college students from homeschooling SPRING 2012 • VOLUME 19, NUMBER 2 91 backgrounds than programs or individuals on the college campus. Homeschooled students (also referred to as home educated or homeschoolers) are those who did not attend traditional public or private schools, but met compulsory education requirements by being educated at home by at least one parent or guardian (Cogan, 2010).
- keywords: academic; activities; bass; bielick; christian; cogan; college; community; education; environment; experiences; faculty; findings; francisco; homeschoolers; impact; important; institutions; jossey; journal; kranzow; new; number; orientation; population; practice; programming; public; research; san; schooled; socialization; spring; students; studies; study; support; terms; transition; volume; year
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- jcotr-2802
- author: Miciek, Mallory R.
- title: Moving Forward: My Reflections on the Tuscaloosa Tornado
- date: 2012-06-01
- words: 1445
- flesch: 62
- summary: I then understood that these students would be perfect role models for new students at the university; a trauma for the community had turned out to be a revolution for the team. In this article, I chronicle my experiences as an administrator at the university while working alongside a unique group of students whose mission to serve their community would soon gain new significance.
- keywords: alabama; april; community; day; efforts; emotions; experiences; home; hope; hours; leaders; new; orientation; retreat; storm; students; team; time; tornado; tuscaloosa; university
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- jcotr-2803
- author: Wilson, Vernita; Varner, Lynn W.
- title: From Remediation to Graduation: Alcorn State University's Summer Developmental Program
- date: 2012-06-01
- words: 1833
- flesch: 39
- summary: The first goal is to assist entering Summer Developmental students in becoming full-time Alcorn State University students upon their successful completion of the nine-week Summer Developmental Program. Staff members contact SDP students through oral and written communications to discuss attendance, coursework, grades, and university adjustment.
- keywords: academic; accuplacer; alcorn; college; developmental; education; exam; excellence; graduate; high; ihl; instruction; journal; laboratory; mississippi; oredein; program; remediation; school; sdp; staff; state; students; success; summer; support; teachers; university; week
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- jcotr-2804
- author: Ray, Darrell C.; Korduner, Melissa M.
- title: Developing a First-Year Transition Camp: A "How To" Guide to Get Started
- date: 2012-06-01
- words: 1806
- flesch: 49
- summary: The action plan should include a timeline for program implementation, proposed dates, earliest opportunity to reserve space on campus, a registration deadline, student staff selection and training dates, and most importantly program capacity. When considering student staff, one must determine eligibility requirements (grade point average, availability) as well as the selection process (application, interview, group process).
- keywords: bass; campus; campuses; college; community; content; departments; francisco; implementation; jossey; learning; louisiana; marketing; number; participants; program; retention; s.t.r.i.p.e.s; san; staff; student; success; summer; support; transition; university; work; year
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- jcotr-2805
- author: Savage, Marjorie
- title: The First Generation Student Experience: Implications for Campus Practice, and Strategies for Improving Persistence and Success
- date: 2012-06-01
- words: 1976
- flesch: 30
- summary: His recommendations include shifting institutional attitude by: • establishing an environment that validates the importance and reduces the stigma of remedial courses, • helping students normalize and understand the “imposter phenomenon,” and • establishing campus lounges and study areas specifically for first- generation students. He believes that first- generation students would benefit by being exposed to instructors’ preparation for teaching, understanding their writing and publication practices, and observing how academic departments function.
- keywords: academic; author; campus; challenges; college; culture; davis; education; experience; families; family; generation; higher; lack; non; number; orientation; parents; programs; skills; status; students; study; support; transition
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- jcotr-2806
- author: Ward-Roof, Jeanine
- title: Preface
- date: 2012-09-01
- words: 225
- flesch: 56
- summary: This edition has a variety of books spanning such diverse topics as love, community service, perse- verance, and the cost of bad behavior. 3 SUMMER 2012 V O L U M E 1 9 , N U M B E R 3
- keywords: editor; new; preface; program; reading; student
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- jcotr-2807
- author: Bovio, Rebecca (Becka)
- title: The Book of Jonas
- date: 2012-09-01
- words: 2390
- flesch: 56
- summary: BOOKS REVIEWED The Book of Jonas By Stephen Dau Published by Blue Rider Press, 2012, 262 pages Reviewed by: Rebecca Bovio (rlb11d@admin.fsu.edu), Career Center Graduate Assistant, The Florida State University The Book of Jonas describes the journey of a young man, Younis, as he leaves his native coun- try and relocates to the United States. During the flight to America, Younis changes his name to Jonas.
- keywords: book; character; christopher; college; crisis; dau; death; extreme; family; friends; girlfriend; health; identity; international; jonas; life; mental; military; narrator; new; novel; story; struggles; students; transition; university; younis
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- jcotr-2808
- author: Palacios, Arelis
- title: Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
- date: 2012-09-01
- words: 1599
- flesch: 53
- summary: On a sociological level, the human relationships—Shin to Harden, Shin to his family, Shin to the prison guards—can be deconstructed to provide further insight into life inside prison camps. Escape from Camp 14 would also be ideal for new student readers interested in education- al psychology or psychotherapy.
- keywords: age; book; brother; camp; discussion; escape; guards; harden; human; kim; korea; labor; life; mother; motivation; multiple; new; north; prison; program; reader; realities; rule; shin; social; south; story; students
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- jcotr-2809
- author: Madden, Katherine A.
- title: A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kindness – And a Trove of Letters – Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression
- date: 2012-09-01
- words: 2163
- flesch: 57
- summary: After putting numerous pieces of infor- mation together, Gup comes to realize that B. Virdot is a moniker for his grandfather, Sam Stone. Gup conducted more than 500 interviews, many with descendants of those who wrote letters to Sam Stone in 1933, and he engaged in years of research through death certificates, census records, and other forms of historical data.
- keywords: book; campus; community; depression; details; families; family; gift; gup; historical; letters; lives; new; personal; program; sam; secret; shares; stone; students; support; theme; time; virdot; year
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- jcotr-2810
- author: Guthrie, Kathy L.
- title: The Best Four Years: How to Survive and Thrive in College (and Life)
- date: 2012-09-01
- words: 1680
- flesch: 62
- summary: This 10 chapter book is organized by topics which beginning college students will encounter throughout their four years in college. This book presents an interesting way to frame tough issues new students are dealing with in their transition to college.
- keywords: advice; author; best; book; chapter; college; education; important; life; new; overall; professionals; shepard; states; strategies; students; time; topics; years
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- jcotr-2811
- author: Gillar, Christina
- title: Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
- date: 2012-09-01
- words: 1913
- flesch: 77
- summary: Grennan faces doubt when he arrives, unsure if he has the proper skills to work with children. While Grennan questions his ability with children and has a few mishaps, the children bring happiness in the midst of war.
- keywords: children; college; farid; golkka; grennan; humla; journey; little; nepal; princes; states; story; students; trip; united; war; year
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- jcotr-2812
- author: Utt, Mina
- title: The Postmortal: A Novel
- date: 2012-09-01
- words: 1976
- flesch: 71
- summary: John falls prey to them and has his true birth date carved into his arm. John spends the book obsessed with finding her.
- keywords: aging; book; cure; death; discussion; end; fear; grief; john; katy; life; loss; people; postmortal; reader; saturation; section; society; student; work; world; year
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- jcotr-2813
- author: Callahan, Kathleen
- title: The Cost of Bad Behavior: How Incivility is Damaging Your Business and What to Do About It
- date: 2012-09-01
- words: 1747
- flesch: 43
- summary: Student discussions could include how civility could be a small gesture or something larger and how, through civility, each institution has the opportunity to improve itself and its students, departments, and community by fostering civil- ity and integrating it into its mission. The Cost of Bad Behavior: How Incivility is Damaging Your Business and What to Do About It By Christine Pearson and Christine Porath Published by Portfolio, 2009, 224 pages Reviewed by: Kathleen Callahan (kc11b@my.fsu.edu), Graduate Assistant, Higher Education Program, The Florida State University The authors, Christine Pearson and Christine Porath, spent ten years gathering data about incivility in the workplace.
- keywords: authors; book; campus; christine; community; conversation; discussion; education; environment; examples; help; impact; incivility; individuals; leaders; major; resources; society; students; study; uncivil; work; world; year
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- jcotr-2814
- author: Dement, Lizzie
- title: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
- date: 2012-09-01
- words: 1709
- flesch: 55
- summary: William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer describe many of the challenges William faces throughout his journey of development in Malawi; however, one of the most powerful stories is the torture faced by William’s community due to drought. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind By William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer Published by HarperCollins Publishers 2010, 290 pages Reviewed by: Lizzie Dement (dementm@mailbox.sc.edu), Graduate Assistant for Social Justice and Diversity Education, University of South Carolina Everyone faces challenges, however, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind puts the average challenges faced by many Americans in perspective.
- keywords: book; challenges; children; community; discovery; discussion; education; experiences; family; kamkwamba; life; reader; relatable; students; support; topic; town; william; wind
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- jcotr-2815
- author: Hale , Jessica
- title: The Dressmaker of Khair Khan: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
- date: 2012-09-01
- words: 1726
- flesch: 58
- summary: Additionally, this book helps readers explore gendered perspectives, as so few stories exist about modern Afghani business women, and even fewer are told from a female perspec- tive. While completing her MBA at Harvard, Gayle made her first trip to Afghanistan and began to learn the stories of women who, despite edicts banning their participa- tion in commerce, were risking their lives to provide for themselves and their families through small businesses.
- keywords: american; book; business; chapters; community; country; dressmaker; family; gayle; international; kabul; kamila; khair; khana; lemmon; life; new; sidiqi; sisters; story; students; taliban; text; war; women
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- jcotr-2816
- author: Jones, Ashley
- title: A School for My Village: A Promise to the Oprhans of Nyaka
- date: 2012-09-01
- words: 1684
- flesch: 53
- summary: A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka By Twesigye Jackson Kaguri with Susan Urbanek Linville Published by Penguin Books, 2011, 275 pages Reviewed by: Ashley Jones (jonesap@wfu.edu), Coordinator of Residence Education, Wake Forest University A School for My Village details the story of Twesigye Jackson’s vision to provide educational opportunities for the children in his home village in Uganda. The author of the introduction, Susan Urbanek Linville, describes her travels with Jackson to learn about his journey of planning and implementing the construction of an AIDS orphans school in his home village.
- keywords: action; aids; author; book; children; community; discussion; education; home; jackson; nyaka; opportunities; orphans; relationship; school; service; setting; states; story; taata; united; village
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- jcotr-2817
- author: Leach, Robin H.
- title: It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living
- date: 2012-09-01
- words: 1015
- flesch: 74
- summary: Almost all of the contributors told their teenage readers that life after high school will be better for them. Almost all related that leaving high school, their home town, or church led to more acceptance and fulfillment.
- keywords: better; book; bullying; high; lgbt; life; message; people; project; school; student; suicide; teens; world
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- jcotr-2818
- author: McCollum, Sarah
- title: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
- date: 2012-09-01
- words: 1796
- flesch: 63
- summary: Another application is having students write a self-reflection paper on their thoughts about topics Foer presented in the book. Foer suggests that anyone can be a mental athlete with time and practice.
- keywords: able; approach; athlete; book; championship; einstein; experience; foer; goal; herennium; information; learning; man; memories; memory; mental; mind; practice; readers; students; time; u.s; year
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- jcotr-2819
- author: Gansemer-Topf, Ann M.; Economos, Kristin
- title: “I Don’t Just Give Tours”: Examining What Students Learn from the Student Orientation Leader Experience
- date: 2012-12-01
- words: 4988
- flesch: 49
- summary: This qualitative study examined what students learned from being student orientation leaders. This qualitative study examined what students learned by being student orientation leaders.
- keywords: astin; college; data; development; different; division; education; experience; faculty; focus; group; help; impact; institution; interact; involvement; journal; leaders; leadership; learning; lot; new; orientation; orientation leaders; people; position; programs; qualitative; research; responsibilities; results; role; skills; staff; student; student orientation; study; summer; theory; transition; understanding; university; upper; work; year
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- jcotr-2820
- author: Soria, Krista M.
- title: Creating a Successful Transition for Working-Class First-Year Students
- date: 2012-12-01
- words: 4700
- flesch: 46
- summary: Working- class students leave behind their former working-class family habitus to join the new, more elite habitus of the middle-class university environment (Berger, 2000; Green, 2003; Hurst, 2010; Stuber, 2011). Promises to keep: Working class students and higher education.
- keywords: academic; analysis; bourdieu; campus; challenges; class; class students; classmate; climate; college; differences; disengagement; education; engagement; experience; factors; faculty; fall; generation; habitus; help; higher; higher education; interactions; items; journal; likely; lower; middle; new; number; orientation; practitioners; press; programs; research; social; social class; students; study; support; survey; table; transition; universities; university; upper; volume; welcoming; working; year; year students
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- jcotr-2821
- author: Bourke, Brian; Bray, Nathaniel
- title: African American Student Persistence at a Predominantly White Institution
- date: 2012-12-01
- words: 5868
- flesch: 50
- summary: NODA Cover 20_1.indd FALL 2012 • VOLUME 20, NUMBER 1 5 African American Student Persistence at a Predominantly White Institution Brian Bourke and Nathaniel J. Bray Persistence in college among African American students continues to remain low compared to persistence among White students. African American students continue to lag behind White students in persisting to graduation, at 40% compared to 60%, respectively, for students who graduate from an institution within six years of entering (Strayhorn, 2008).
- keywords: african; african american; american; american students; black; braxton; campus; college; college student; color; community; data; departure; discrimination; education; elements; environment; experiences; fall; findings; focus; groups; higher; institution; integration; involvement; journal; literature; minority; nora; number; organizations; orientation; participants; perception; persistence; potential; propositions; pwis; quaye; research; retention; social; southern; state; student persistence; students; study; theory; transition; university; volume; white; year
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- jcotr-2822
- author: Bagby, Janet H.; Barnard-Brak, Lucy; Sulak, Tracey N.; Walter, Mary
- title: Faculty Perceptions of Combat-Related PTSD and Teaching Post 9/11 Student-Veterans
- date: 2012-12-01
- words: 3129
- flesch: 49
- summary: Results indicate that faculty members do perceive PTSD to be a real disorder confronting student veterans; however, statistically significant results indicate that many faculty members do not consider PTSD to be treatable, nor do they feel prepared to work with these returning students. Specifically, DiRamio et al. (2008) concluded that “a consistent message from the participants was that they hoped faculty members would acknowledge their veteran status and attempt to understand them as a student population,” (p. 89); however, faculty members’ attitudes toward the military and beliefs about PTSD may impact their ability to effectively teach returning student veterans (Barnard-Bark, Bagby, Jones & Sulak, 2011).
- keywords: agree; classroom; cohen; college; combat; diramio; disorder; education; efficacy; faculty; faculty members; hamrick; higher; journal; members; military; number; population; preparedness; psychological; ptsd; question; real; research; results; rumann; self; services; student; student veterans; study; symptoms; transition; veterans
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- jcotr-2823
- author: Hale, Jessica; Buzas, Cristina
- title: The Parent First-Year Experience on a Community College Campus
- date: 2012-12-01
- words: 4137
- flesch: 59
- summary: Findings also indicated that active participants in parent programs were well- educated, first-time college students’ parents. Coburn, K. L., & Woodward, B. (2001) More than punch and cookies: A new look at parent orientation programs.
- keywords: academic; college; communication; community; count; disagree; education; fall; information; journal; n=32; n=35; neutral; newsletters; online; orientation; parents; participants; pfye; program; question; rate; research; researchers; second; staff; students; study; support; survey; table; transition; wcc; webinars; workshops; year
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- jcotr-2824
- author: Bunting, Bryce
- title: Beyond Utilitarianism: A New Paradigm for Orientation
- date: 2012-12-01
- words: 1636
- flesch: 41
- summary: So, you shift to autopilot and give the much simpler and watered down version: “I run new student orientation at State U.” It follows, then, that principles of effective teaching and learning should guide the conceptualizing, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the type of orientation experience I am describing.
- keywords: active; aesthetic; campus; classes; college; context; design; effective; events; example; experience; learning; meaning; narrative; new; orientation; paradigm; parrish; principles; program; question; students; theme; university; work
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- jcotr-2825
- author: Lisenby, Kayla
- title: Creating a Cross-Campus Peer Mentor Network
- date: 2012-12-01
- words: 1775
- flesch: 35
- summary: Examine The office charged with creating the network should conduct an audit of the student populations currently being served by peer mentoring organizations, including areas where peer-mentoring programs are being considered or are being developed. Offices that focus on student transition and retention, the first-year experience, and/or student organizations, and are not affiliated with any network member organizations are good options to consider.
- keywords: campus; college; cross; effective; goals; institution; mentoring; mentors; mission; network; organizations; peer; potential; programs; resources; retention; students; success; training; transition; year
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- jcotr-2826
- author: Swecker, Bart A.
- title: Rethinking the Orientation Communication Methodology: Leveraging New Technologies for Orientation and Transition Communications
- date: 2012-12-01
- words: 1581
- flesch: 33
- summary: By providing different and relevant messages across the incoming students, the ability for orientation communications to assist in the continued recruitment and transition can be increased. Data which are collected from the point of initial contact through the point which orientation communications begin can be leveraged to market pertinent services to a student on an individualized basis.
- keywords: communication; crm; data; electronic; enrollment; example; experience; information; mailing; management; messaging; method; number; online; orientation; programs; recruitment; relationship; software; strategy; students; transition; university; yield
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- jcotr-2827
- author: Hudson, Robyn
- title: Review of 100 Things Every College Student With a Disability Ought to Know
- date: 2012-12-01
- words: 1512
- flesch: 40
- summary: In 100 Things Every College Student with a Disability Ought to Know, Johnson and Hines address the most salient and frequent transition issues for college students with disabilities. Other things that college students with disabilities ought to know are how the admissions process relates to students with disabilities, documentation requirements, and the critical importance of timely notification of needs.
- keywords: accommodations; book; cambridge; campus; college; disabilities; disability; format; high; johnson; life; need; office; orientation; process; school; services; skills; students; study; things; transition
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- jcotr-2828
- author: Soria, Krista M.; Clark, Beth Lingren; Koch, Laura Coffin
- title: Investigating the Academic and Social Benefits of Extended New Student Orientations for First-Year Students
- date: 2013-06-01
- words: 5394
- flesch: 43
- summary: There is a clear gap in research that investigates extended new student orientations—orientation sessions that last a week or longer that offer an extensive transition experience for new first-year students. Institutions have a very small window of opportunity to establish strong connections with students, as 75% of non-returning students will withdraw during or immediately following their first semester (Tinto, 1993; Gardner, 1986); therefore, first-year student programs, including new student orientation, are critically important to higher education institutions because they are well- positioned to make the most positive impact on overall student retention.
- keywords: .04; .05; academic; attendees; averages; benefits; campus; class; college; commitment; community; cumulative; development; education; engagement; experience; extended; factors; fall; grade; group; higher; identity; institution; journal; model; new; new student; non; number; orientation; participation; point; programs; research; retention; second; self; sense; social; spring; student orientation; students; study; survey; table; theory; transition; university; week; welcome; welcome week; year; year students
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- jcotr-2829
- author: Stoll, Elizabeth Buffy
- title: First-Generation College Students: Navigating the Worlds of School and Home
- date: 2013-06-01
- words: 4833
- flesch: 44
- summary: In fact, the very nature of first-generation students’ distinction stems from the unfamiliarity of families and communities at home with the college environment and the tools that college students need to succeed. Family context variables and the development of self regulation in college students.
- keywords: academic; adjustment; american; college; college students; connections; cultural; culture; development; education; experience; families; family; firstgeneration; focus; generation; generation college; generation students; higher; home; important; journal; minority; number; parents; persistence; programs; research; school; self; social; students; study; success; support; theory; transition; understanding; university; values; year
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- jcotr-2830
- author: Bono, Timothy; Pei, Katherine E.; Bristow, Danielle F.
- title: Guiding and Gauging: Peer Leaders' Perceptions of the First-Year Student Experience
- date: 2013-06-01
- words: 3970
- flesch: 51
- summary: Given the salutary effects of peer mentoring, institutions across the country have developed many varied peer leadership roles to support new students. Peer mentors who are specially trained to develop intentional and positive relationships with incoming students and build this connection to deliver social and academic messaging within a structured setting are a particularly important support system for new students.
- keywords: academic; campus; close; college; experiences; floor; freshman; graph; journal; leaders; major; mean; mentors; national; new; number; orientation; peer; perceptions; positive; program; ratings; relationships; reports; second; semester; social; spring; students; study; support; table; transition; university; variables; volume; washington; week; weekly; wusa; year
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- jcotr-2831
- author: Hodges, Jennifer; Tankersley, Christopher
- title: Becoming an Orientation Leader: A Catalyst for Self-Authorship Development
- date: 2013-06-01
- words: 6814
- flesch: 55
- summary: The group authorship process also involved reciprocal development—individual OLs observing the growth of other OLs and aspiring to replicate that growth. It also illustrates the potential benefits of training OLs over a long time period and assists orientation professionals with integrating theory and practice to not only create effective orientation programs but also provide student leaders the opportunity to grow and develop while in college.
- keywords: approach; authorship; authorship development; break; campus; catalysts; caucasian; characteristics; college; comfortable; course; data; day; development; experience; female; formulas; group; institution; interviews; job; journal; leaders; leadership; learning; majoring; making; new; number; old; ols; opportunities; opportunity; orientation; participants; people; process; programs; research; schedule; self; situations; skills; spring; students; study; summer; team; time; training; transition; trust; way; work; year
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- jcotr-2832
- author: Hicks, Terrence; Heastie, Samuel; Allen, Tawannah; Ford, Shelton; Taylor, Robert
- title: College Social Experiences Between First-Generation Students and Other Students Enrolled in a STEM Discipline at an HBCU
- date: 2013-06-01
- words: 7501
- flesch: 41
- summary: For example, the difference between first generation college students and other college students is a relatively new topic being studied. To that effect, little is known about the college social experiences and barriers of first generation college students enrolled in a STEM discipline at an HBCU.
- keywords: academic; african; american; analysis; background; black; campus; college; college social; college students; cseq; data; development; differences; different; discipline; education; effect; engagement; environment; experiences; facilities; family; fields; findings; firstgeneration; generation; generation college; generation students; groups; hbcu; hicks; higher; information; institutions; items; journal; levels; mean; new; number; orientation; parental; parents; participants; pascarella; programs; questionnaire; questions; recreational; research; sample; science; self; significant; size; social; spring; stem; stem discipline; students; studies; study; time; transition; universities; university; variable; volume; year
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- jcotr-2833
- author: Haynes, Michael R.; Atchley, T. Wayne
- title: The Impact of a Camp Orientation Program on First-Year Academic Engagement and Persistence
- date: 2013-06-01
- words: 5554
- flesch: 36
- summary: Survey Instruments Two instruments developed and administered by the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research were used to collect student level data for this research. Additionally, student level data should be analyzed to determine and compare the variance of academic preparation by institution.
- keywords: academic; academic engagement; acl; analysis; bcsse; camp; campus; center; class; college; control; data; dependent; differences; educational; engagement; experience; faculty; fall; freshman; group; high; higher; host; impact; initiatives; institution; journal; learning; levels; manova; matching; membership; missing; national; non; nsse; number; orientation; outcomes; participants; participation; performance; persistence; point; population; post; pre; program; rates; research; scale; school; sfi; significant; spring; student engagement; students; study; success; summer; survey; table; test; time; transition; university; variables; volume; year
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- jcotr-2834
- author: Bohonos, Jeremy
- title: Appreciating the Experiences and Expertise of Adult Students
- date: 2013-06-01
- words: 853
- flesch: 56
- summary: The story also stunned me and helped me to see the importance of appreciative approaches when working with adult students. 134 THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION AND TRANSITION useful feedback to students who are looking to make career moves.
- keywords: academic; adult; advising; advisor; appreciative; career; expertise; journal; knowledge; people; students; time; university
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- jcotr-2835
- author: Hudesman, John; Millet, Nicholas; Clay, Dorie
- title: A Student Parent Assistance Pilot Program for Incoming Associate Degree Students
- date: 2013-06-01
- words: 2187
- flesch: 51
- summary: For example, the overwhelming majority of family members who assisted program students were female. (2009) found that college students who reported more interactions with their families also had higher GPAs.
- keywords: academic; college; comparison; course; discussion; experience; families; family; generation; group; journal; mean; members; orientation; parent; participants; participating; pilot; positive; program; questions; score; spapp; students; summer; support; survey; transition; york
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- jcotr-2836
- author: Sullins, Donna Lee; Helms, Marilyn M.
- title: Emerging Campus Issues: The Case of Dalton State College
- date: 2013-06-01
- words: 6725
- flesch: 54
- summary: Resources, including scholarships through foundations for Hispanic students, were sought for campus students, programs, and endowed Latino-focused professorships. These one-page full-color fliers contained a weekly event calendar and brief messages about new campus changes.
- keywords: academic; area; athletics; bachelor; body; brand; building; business; campus; campuses; center; changes; college; community; current; dalton; dalton state; degree; difficult; dsc; education; enrollment; experience; faculty; fall; family; funding; future; georgia; growth; higher; housing; ideas; institution; involved; journal; level; life; literature; local; management; marketing; messages; mission; needs; new; northwest; number; office; opportunities; orientation; parents; place; planning; plans; point; positive; programs; research; school; services; social; sports; spring; staff; state; state college; statement; status; students; study; successful; support; system; technical; time; traditional; transition; university; verbal; volume; work; year
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- jcotr-2837
- author: Duvall, David; Phillips, Karen
- title: Leadership Based Camps: Promoting Involvement and Positive Transition Before Students Set Foot on Campus
- date: 2013-06-01
- words: 1733
- flesch: 42
- summary: Established in 2006, the program goals for Camp Eagle include introducing incoming students to the University’s history and traditions, supporting students in developing personal values, developing students’ leadership and teamwork skills, exploring the importance of service CAMPUS NOTES David Duvall (dpduvall@uta.edu ) is the Director of New Maverick Orientation and Off-Campus Mavericks at the University of Texas at Arlington . The goals and learning outcomes for the program are to help students think critically and self reflectively, to begin to develop leadership skills, both individually and in groups, to acknowledge the diverse community we live in; and to develop a connection to the Suffolk community by building relationships with incoming students, current students, and staff.
- keywords: academy; activities; camp; campus; college; community; day; eagle; goals; leadership; model; new; orientation; participants; program; second; social; staff; students; transition; university; values
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- jcotr-2838
- author: Ray, Darrell
- title: Review of Thriving in Transitions
- date: 2013-06-01
- words: 1108
- flesch: 46
- summary: Expanding the operational definition of student success is also a central theme. Though supported by the research, the chapter expands upon the role of mindset in student success.
- keywords: attention; campus; campuses; chapter; college; engagement; institutional; literature; new; present; recommendations; research; students; success; text; thriving; transition; year
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- jcotr-2839
- author: Stanfield, David A.
- title: Review of Crafting and Conducting Research on Student Transitions
- date: 2013-06-01
- words: 1661
- flesch: 31
- summary: Crafting and Conducting Research on Student Transitions provides a concise and effective introduction to student transition research for practitioners, graduate students, and novice researchers. The book’s five straightforward and logically ordered chapters can be read consecutively as an overview of the entire research process or serve as a reference BOOK REVIEWS 122 THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION AND TRANSITION guide to explore specific stages or components of student transition research.
- keywords: approach; appropriate; authors; book; center; chapter; college; data; education; experience; henscheid; higher; journal; keup; methodology; national; process; qualitative; question; research; researchers; resource; student; study; transition; year
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- jcotr-2840
- author: Whitney, Rich
- title: Review of Exceptional Senior Student Affairs Administrators' Leadership
- date: 2013-06-01
- words: 1396
- flesch: 42
- summary: Chapters 4, 6, and 7 are the chapter/sub-chapters where 16 of the contributors share their thoughts about SSAO leaders at different institutional types (Chapter 4), competencies needed (Chapter 6), and the road to the presidency (Chapter 7). There are two different types of chapters used in the book: the typical chapter addressing one topic or application and the chapter that includes smaller sub-chapters that provide a richer conversation around their subject.
- keywords: administrators; affairs; authors; book; chapter; competencies; contributors; dungy; education; ellis; exceptional; future; higher; leadership; new; senior; senior student; student; student affairs
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- jcotr-2841
- author: Pesce, Jessica
- title: Review of The First-Year Seminar: Designing, Implementing, and Assessing Courses to Support Student Learning and Success, Volume II: Instructor Training and Development
- date: 2013-06-01
- words: 2471
- flesch: 45
- summary: Their presentation of a model (p. 47) for developing seminar instructor training visually depicts the role of learning outcomes in understanding teaching and learning; the authors suggest that instructors should begin by considering the intended outcomes of the course and then work backwards to factor in the course content, learning context, the learning process, and both teacher and learner variables. In the second chapter, the authors begin outlining strategies for successful design and development of instructor training programs.
- keywords: authors; book; chapter; college; content; courses; development; faculty; groccia; hunter; instructors; learning; model; new; professional; seminar; students; teaching; traditional; trainers; training; transition; use; useful; volume; year; year seminars
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- jcotr-2842
- author: Ward-Roof, Jeanine
- title: Preface
- date: 2013-10-01
- words: 225
- flesch: 55
- summary: This edition has a variety of books spanning such diverse topics as love, community service, perse- verance, and the cost of bad behavior. Also, thank you to Stephanie Foote, Editor, and Michael Ruther, Managing Editor, for their work on editing the final versions of the reviews.
- keywords: editor; new; preface; program; reading; student
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- jcotr-2843
- author: Trengrove, Matthew
- title: A Year Up: How a Pioneering Program Teaches Young Adults Real Skills for Real Jobs with Real Success
- date: 2013-10-01
- words: 1639
- flesch: 50
- summary: Further, they could suggest that vocational programs as- sess a child’s future potential and then herd them into specific programs far too early in life, so that it restricts their future mobility. Either way, this text provides a solid introduction to the age old debate between proponents of professional/vocational programs (i.e., Booker T. Washington & Benjamin Franklin) and those supporting a liberal arts education (i.e., W.E.B. DuBois, & Thomas Jefferson), especially when we consider that vocational education programs have evolved into new areas to include business administration and engineering programs as technology developed over time (Bok, 2006).
- keywords: adults; america; business; career; chertavian; college; corporate; development; disenfranchised; education; face; individuals; internship; life; new; points; professional; program; real; skills; social; society; stories; students; text; vocational; year; young
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- jcotr-2844
- author: Squire, Dian
- title: Back To School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education
- date: 2013-10-01
- words: 1621
- flesch: 43
- summary: This book would be most beneficial to new to mid-level orienta- tion professionals, those working with remedial students, those working in community colleges or vocational colleges, those who are counseling students who think that the traditional college experi- ence is not for them, or those interested in social justice issues. Many students never learned math in a practical manner, often learning through rote methods.
- keywords: argument; better; book; campus; chapter; college; community; education; educators; experience; occupational; programs; reader; remedial; rose; school; second; social; stories; students; support; training; vocational; year
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- jcotr-2845
- author: Williams, Tamaria
- title: Bend, Not Break
- date: 2013-10-01
- words: 1641
- flesch: 56
- summary: Fu details her forced deportation and role in the technological advances that led to the successful creation of her software company. The book chronicles how Fu’s once happy and safe childhood with her affluent and educated family in Shanghai turns into a world of uncertainty and poverty due to the Cultural Revolution.
- keywords: bend; black; book; break; china; company; cultural; factory; families; family; guards; humanity; importance; mao; meals; new; red; revolution; shanghai; students; study; support; theme; time; values
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- jcotr-2846
- author: Fishner, Carrie
- title: Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy
- date: 2013-10-01
- words: 1696
- flesch: 61
- summary: 13SPECIAL EDITION FALL 2013 V O L U M E 2 0 , N U M B E R 3 Creating Room to Read; A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy By John Wood Published by Viking (Penguin Group), 2013, 290 pages Reviewed by: Carrie J. Fishner (fishnecj@delhi.edu), Orientation and Liberal Arts and Sciences Department, State University of New York College at Delhi “My goal is that children everywhere have access to literacy and books in their mother tongue from a young age” (p. 11). The journey Wood has taken to build Room to Read into a multi-million dollar organization has been just over 10 years; we follow Wood’s journey as he has his first epiphany about leaving the corporate technology world of Microsoft to pursue his passion for helping children to have access to books to the opening of the ten thousandth library funded through Room to Read.
- keywords: book; children; community; edition; education; fall; girls; goal; great; help; library; organization; parents; room; school; students; wood; world
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- jcotr-2847
- author: Mwangi, Chrystal A. George
- title: Family, Community and Higher Education
- date: 2013-10-01
- words: 1619
- flesch: 38
- summary: Family, Community and Higher Education Edited by T.S. Jenkins Published by Routledge, 2013, 149 pages Reviewed by: Chrystal A. George Mwangi, (chrystal@umd.edu), Doctoral Candidate, Higher Education, Univer- sity of Maryland, College Park Termed “helicopter parents” and “tiger moms” in the media and on college campuses, the par- ents of today’s generation of college students are often defined as being too “hands-on” in the lives of their children (Vinson, 2013). In light of the increasing diversity of college students in the U.S., Jenkins presents a timely message about the importance of acknowledging students’ backgrounds and connections to their families and home communities; however, there were two main limitations to the book.
- keywords: authors; book; campuses; college; communities; community; daughter; education; families; family; father; generation; higher; jenkins; lessons; life; section; stories; story; students; success
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- jcotr-2848
- author: Shields, Sarah
- title: The Fault in Our Stars
- date: 2013-10-01
- words: 1633
- flesch: 64
- summary: Espe- cially in a residential or classroom setting, where individuals become part of a smaller community, many students may not have had the freedom to be completely in charge of their day-to-day lives. Exploring the “grenade” metaphor can be a powerful tool for instructors and staff members to use when advising students about the community aspect of a college environment.
- keywords: author; book; cancer; characters; college; fault; friends; gus; hazel; isaac; life; making; novel; staff; students; theme; topics; year
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- jcotr-2849
- author: Metzo, Christine
- title: The Invisible Girls
- date: 2013-10-01
- words: 1789
- flesch: 60
- summary: The chapters move forward and back in time between the two formative periods of her life, and Thebarge interjects stories from her child- hood and youth, growing up as the daughter of a fundamentalist pastor, which sets the context for her own reactions and reflections. Thebarge promises to come back.
- keywords: book; cancer; community; culture; daughters; engaging; faith; girls; hadhi; intercultural; invisible; life; loss; reading; relationship; sarah; selection; story; students; thebarge; understanding; university; woman
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- jcotr-2850
- author: Rutledge , Kelving E.
- title: Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood
- date: 2013-10-01
- words: 1898
- flesch: 43
- summary: Although many students will generally compare culture on a state, regional, and even national level, this piece allows students to process and reflect critically upon the world outside of the United States and what social constructions influence overall development. Departments that focus on new student programming should potentially explore avenues that help challenge the world that students currently understand in addition to affirming their experience concerning what it can contribute toward their futures.
- keywords: areas; book; campus; culture; departments; gómez; impact; important; life; man; manhood; multiple; negative; new; outside; overall; perspectives; positive; process; professionals; section; states; students; united; world
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- jcotr-2851
- author: Townsend , Austin
- title: Not Working: People Talk about Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s Changing Economy
- date: 2013-10-01
- words: 1675
- flesch: 56
- summary: Many people had lived in this town their entire lives. Book 5, “Corporate Citizens,” highlights the terminations of many people who were mid ca- reer.
- keywords: book; career; college; community; economic; economy; education; experience; gibson; homes; individuals; interviews; job; people; reading; section; shares; stories; story; students; today; ugs; unemployment; way; work
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- jcotr-2852
- author: L. Bradford, Catherine
- title: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
- date: 2013-10-01
- words: 1781
- flesch: 55
- summary: The book is especially well-suited for first-year, senior, and transfer students because people experiencing major transitions are most open to creating new habits and modifying existing ones, according to Duhigg. Put another way, we are hardwired to be creatures of habit.
- keywords: book; business; change; companies; craving; cue; duhigg; habits; life; loop; marketing; new; ones; order; pages; patterns; power; readers; reward; routine; section; social; stories; students; success; target
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- jcotr-2853
- author: Hernandez, Carol
- title: Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
- date: 2013-10-01
- words: 1644
- flesch: 64
- summary: As a young American shopper, she formerly prided herself on her ability to snap up cheap clothes at her favorite retailers: H&M, Forever 21, Target, or Old Navy. My wardrobe is what the average American produces in a little over five years…I owned more clothing than I did anything else and probably knew the least about it of anything I bought.
- keywords: american; book; buying; cheap; cline; clothes; clothing; cost; factory; fall; fashion; garment; high; items; labor; new; people; quality; readers; shopping; students; use; workers; year
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- jcotr-2854
- author: Kolberg, Liz
- title: Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Streets, One Helping Hand at a Time
- date: 2013-10-01
- words: 2145
- flesch: 73
- summary: Part 1 is difficult to read at times, as readers learn of Phelps’s challenging youth. It was only a matter of time before Phelps was exhibiting the same behaviors.
- keywords: barbara; book; chapter; college; discussion; drugs; good; health; juvenile; law; life; mother; phelps; read; readers; relationship; school; sex; story; students; time; university
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- jcotr-2855
- author: Hale, Jessica
- title: The Age of Miracles
- date: 2013-10-01
- words: 1957
- flesch: 71
- summary: Several of the themes addressed provide opportunities for rich discussions with new students and students in transition. The breadth of topics covered in this book could also be used to help new students identify career and academic interests.
- keywords: age; book; changes; chapters; clock; day; days; earth; edition; fall; government; instructors; julia; love; miracles; new; people; real; role; science; seth; slowing; social; special; story; stratification; students; time; walker
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- jcotr-2856
- author: Ball, Vanessa
- title: Wine to Water: A Bartender’s Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World
- date: 2013-10-01
- words: 1971
- flesch: 56
- summary: Reading SPECIAL EDITION FALL 2013 V O L U M E 2 0 , N U M B E R 3 45 the Bible within a new context gives Hendley strength, as he feels that he can relate to Jesus and his stories: Instead of making me feel like I was being preached at or judged, the stories spoke to me. Wine to Water: A Bartender’s Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World By Doc Hendley Published by Penguin Group, 2012, 229 pages Reviewed by: Vanessa Ball (vanessaball@me.com), Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, Development & Programs Graduate Assistant, Florida State University Wine to Water: A Bartender’s Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World, is part coming-of-age story and part call to action, as it chronicles the journey of Doc Hendley, a bartender-turned-humani- tarian, as he struggles to make a difference by bringing clean drinking water to the developing world.
- keywords: bartender; book; chapter; clean; college; coy; dangerous; darfur; development; difference; doc; drinking; gender; ground; help; hendley; man; money; new; novel; numerous; purse; reading; samaritan; spiritual; students; water; wine; work; world
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- jcotr-2857
- author: Lambert, Rebecca; Mamiseishvili, Ketevan (Kate)
- title: The Effects of Students’ Self-Perceptions of Behaviors, Attitudes, and Aptitudes on their First-to-Second-Year Persistence
- date: 2013-12-01
- words: 5444
- flesch: 51
- summary: In a report by Reason (2009), students’ self-perceptions were discussed as a concept that has not been explored by many researchers in the study of college student persistence in higher education. Kezar (2004) stated that “retention of college students remains one of the key challenges and problems for higher education” (p. xi).
- keywords: academic; analysis; bean; cirp; college; college student; concept; data; demographic; eaton; education; faith; fall; freshman; generation; higher; hurtado; institutions; involvement; journal; likelihood; logistic; model; nonpersisters; number; orientation; perceptions; persistence; private; rates; regression; research; retention; sample; school; second; second year; self; small; social; student persistence; students; study; success; survey; theory; time; transition; university; variables; year
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- jcotr-2858
- author: Roszkowski, Michael J.
- title: The Relationship of Help-Seeking Inclinations to Traditional Predictors of Academic Success and First-Semester College GPA
- date: 2013-12-01
- words: 11028
- flesch: 59
- summary: The actual GPA scores of students with help seeking ratings between 2 and 9 are higher than predicted, with a pattern of increasing residuals with higher help seeking scores, up until one reaches the rating of 10, at which point the actual score is lower than predicted. Much of the research on academic help seeking is based on elementary and high school students, although it probably generalizes to college students (Karabenck & Newman, 2006).
- keywords: ability; academic; academic help; achievement; analysis; appropriate; associates; avoidant; basis; behavior; beta; butler; cases; class; classroom; college; college gpa; correlation; dependent; differences; different; eds; educational; erlbaum; fall; goals; gpa; grades; help; high; high school; higher; inclination; interaction; item; journal; karabenick; learning; level; likely; low; lower; measurement; model; motivation; newman; noncognitive; number; observed; orientation; percentile; performance; point; prediction; predictors; psychology; rank; ratings; record; regression; relationship; research; role; ryan; sample; sat; scale; school; school rank; scores; seekers; seeking; self; semester; sex; significant; single; social; students; study; success; table; term; traditional; transition; university; variables; volume
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- jcotr-2859
- author: Gast, Tabitha Young; Burt, Isaac
- title: Exploring the Predictive Value of the ACT Among First-Year College Students on Academic Probation
- date: 2013-12-01
- words: 3250
- flesch: 49
- summary: 3) There was a correlation between college first-year college students on academic probation ACT scores and second semester GPA. a. State students ACT scores remain lowest in nation.
- keywords: .05; academic; academic probation; achievement; act; american; authors; average; college; data; education; entrance; examination; fall; freshman; gpa; gpas; higher; journal; number; participants; power; predictive; probation; question; relationship; research; results; sample; school; scores; second; semester; significant; students; studies; study; success; test; university; year
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- jcotr-2860
- author: Darcy, Monica G.; Powers, John T.
- title: Student Veterans: Advantages and Obstacles in College Transition
- date: 2013-12-01
- words: 4480
- flesch: 53
- summary: Focus groups were conducted with student veterans to explore their interactions with students, faculty, and administrators. An influx of student veterans to college campuses is evident following the launch of the Post 9/11 GI Bill in August 2009.
- keywords: academic; advantages; campus; civilian; class; classes; classroom; college; combat; desire; diramio; education; experiences; faculty; focus; groups; hamrick; important; information; journal; life; lot; maturity; members; military; need; number; obstacles; participants; people; previous; reactions; research; respondents; rumann; service; student; student veterans; supportive; themes; transition; understanding; unique; veterans; war
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- jcotr-2861
- author: Ritz, Gary; Heggen, Alyssa; Ericson, Katie; Harris, Jacqueline
- title: Transition Programs for Student Veterans
- date: 2013-12-01
- words: 5144
- flesch: 35
- summary: NODA Journal 21_1.indd FALL 2013 • VOLUME 21, NUMBER 1 65 Transition Programs for Student Veterans Gary Ritz, Alyssa Heggen, Katie Ericson, and Jacqueline Harris Many times, student veterans are returning to, or entering for the first time, an institution of higher education at an older age than the traditional student, and with very different background experiences. As institutions prepare a welcoming environment for their matriculating students, an orientation program for student veterans, supplemental to the already existing orientation, is suggested.
- keywords: academic; activities; activity; affairs; affairs orientation; average; ball; benefits; bsu; campus; center; college; college orientation; community; credit; day; education; fall; gpa; group; higher; hours; information; journal; military; modules; new; number; office; online; orientation; orientation activity; orientation day; orientation program; postsecondary; pre; program; resources; retention; semester; state; student; student veterans; study; summer; supplemental; table; traditional; transition; university; veterans; veterans affairs
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- jcotr-2862
- author: Mixson-Brookshire, Deborah; Foote, Stephanie M.; Brookshire, Donald
- title: Learning to Leap: Using Experiential Education and Collaborative Learning to Enhance Student Perceptions of Self-Confidence in the First-Year Seminar
- date: 2013-12-01
- words: 2029
- flesch: 45
- summary: Findings suggest that student participants had greater levels of self-esteem and achieved higher grade point averages than their peers who were in first-year seminars that were not experientially oriented. Student participants were enrolled in sections of the seminar that incorporated learning by engaging the student in hands-on activities (e.g., Traffic Jam, Mine Field, Warp Speed, Blind Trust, and Communication Puzzle) that involved inquiry and analysis, problem solving, communication, decision making, team work, and trust.
- keywords: academic; activities; activity; class; college; communication; experience; experiential; following; instructors; kennesaw; learning; orientation; participants; sections; self; seminar; skills; state; students; study; time; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2863
- author: Mitchell, Donald
- title: “Bridges to Nowhere”: Rethinking Summer Bridge Programs for Historically Underrepresented Students
- date: 2013-12-01
- words: 1786
- flesch: 44
- summary: The purpose of this current note is to highlight existing literature on SBPs for historically underrepresented students and provide recommendations for building and sustaining successful SBPs. While institutions continue to use and develop summer bridge programs (SBPs), the influences of SBPs remain unclear.
- keywords: academic; advising; bridge; college; faculty; gains; grand; high; institutional; outcomes; participants; program; relationships; sbps; social; state; strayhorn; students; success; summer; transition; tufts; underrepresented; university; valley; wadpole; year
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- jcotr-2864
- author: Johnson, Jennifer A.; Duncan, Mary Katherine
- title: Using the GoodWork™ Model to Introduce First-Year Students to the Expectations of Academia
- date: 2013-12-01
- words: 1976
- flesch: 47
- summary: We believed that the GoodWork™ model would be a useful tool for helping students to understand our university’s expectations for excellence, ethics, and engagement in their academic work. These conversations revealed that students held some misconceptions about the three Es of GoodWork™ as applied to their academic work.
- keywords: academic; assignment; behaviors; college; discussion; ethical; expectations; faculty; freshman; goodwork; high; model; orientation; outstanding; program; sam; school; students; summer; university; year
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- jcotr-2865
- author: Ray, Darrell
- title: Called to Serve: A Handbook on Student Veterans and Higher Education
- date: 2013-12-01
- words: 1020
- flesch: 49
- summary: The various authors provide a framework, structure, and future direction for establishing campus services for veterans. Called to Serve is a well-crafted foundation text for campuses at any point in the process, but it offers a wealth of knowledge for those in the initial planning stages.
- keywords: american; campus; campuses; change; chapter; education; framework; higher; information; military; resources; services; strategies; structures; student; text; transition; understanding; veterans
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- jcotr-2866
- author: Olson, Annie
- title: Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today’s College Students
- date: 2013-12-01
- words: 1416
- flesch: 38
- summary: Life outside the classroom for this generation of college students varies significantly from past generations. Parents of college students today hover over their children and are overinvolved in their children’s lives.
- keywords: authors; classroom; college; dean; education; findings; generation; higher; levine; life; millennial; orientation; parents; portrait; professionals; programs; students; technology; today; transition
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- jcotr-2867
- author: Kniess, Dena R.; Havice, Pamela A.; Cawthon, Tony W.; Stewart-Tillman, Kendra D.
- title: Transitioning in and Moving Through the Second Year for African-AmericanStudents at a Predominately White Institution (PWI): A Case Study
- date: 2014-06-01
- words: 5440
- flesch: 50
- summary: The existing literature lacks current studies on how African American students experience the collegiate environment, especially during the second year when students are more at risk FEATURED ARTICLE Dena R. Kniess (drkniess@eiu.edu) is an Assistant Professor in the College Student Affairs program at Eastern Illinois University. The lack of research on how African American students experience their second year at a predominantly White institution (PWI), including understanding relationships that are important during the second-year in college, provided the rationale for this study.
- keywords: ability; academic; activities; african; african american; american; american students; campus; capital; center; college; color; commitment; community; cultural; data; education; environment; experience; faculty; focus; forms; groups; individuals; institution; journal; mentoring; participants; peer; persistence; program; pwi; rendón; research; retention; schreiner; second; second year; site; social; southeast; spring; students; study; support; thriving; transition; university; white; year; year experience; year students; yosso
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- jcotr-2869
- author: Gast, Tabitha Young; Michael, Anthony A.; Eskridge, Talunja; Hermann, Katherine M.; Turnage-Butterbaugh, Ian
- title: Does a Course in Wellness Education Assist Undergraduate Students on Academic Probation in College Success?
- date: 2014-06-01
- words: 5256
- flesch: 51
- summary: College student wellness: A comparison between traditional and nontraditional age students. Although definitive and comparative data is needed in order to reach conclusive results, these findings offer preliminary insight into the relationship between wellness education and academic achievement, which could lead to much needed interventions designed to aid college students that are struggling academically.
- keywords: .05; academic; academic probation; age; american; analysis; assessment; behaviors; change; college; college students; components; counseling; course; development; education; exercise; factor; gpa; health; identity; journal; life; love; model; myers; orientation; participants; physical; post; pre; probation; research; retention; sample; score; self; semester; significant; social; spring; students; studies; study; sweeney; time; transition; undergraduates; university; variables; wellness
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- jcotr-2870
- author: Rode, Denise
- title: Interview with Richard Mullendore
- date: 2014-06-01
- words: 1675
- flesch: 57
- summary: All of these factors make the work of student affairs administrators even more important as they try to help these students navigate the college experience and get them prepared for the world beyond the college walls. My next position was at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where I served as dean of students and then associate vice chancellor for Student Affairs.
- keywords: affairs; association; career; college; dick; education; experience; faculty; higher; national; noda; orientation; position; professional; student; time; university; work; years
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- jcotr-2871
- author: Ast, Karen M.
- title: Small Town, Not Small Time: Understanding the Experiences of Rural Students
- date: 2014-06-01
- words: 1501
- flesch: 54
- summary: For example, in the qualitative research conducted for my thesis, which focused on the experiences of rural students transitioning into college, students expressed their feelings of anxiety regarding the short period between classes, where they were suddenly surrounded by thousands of students. In addition, over the past decade, student enrollment in rural secondary districts is greatly outpacing enrollment of students in urban school districts (Strange, Johnson, Showalter, & Klein, 2012).
- keywords: campus; class; college; community; education; enrollment; experiences; high; higher; individuals; journal; orientation; parents; research; rural; school; size; small; stories; students; town; transition
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- jcotr-2872
- author: Duncan, Mary Katherine; Johnson, Jennifer Adrienne
- title: BU Good Work Initiative: Marking Undergraduates Path to Success as Students, Persons, and Citizens
- date: 2014-06-01
- words: 2121
- flesch: 41
- summary: Feedback from incoming first-year undergraduates suggested that they found value in learning about the three Es of academic good work, reflecting upon the academic expectations of higher education, being motivated to take on their first year of undergraduate study, and becoming more aware of campus-based academic resources. During a series of three freshman orientation workshops, first-year undergraduates inventoried their basic responsibilities related to each role and considered what it means to do good work as students, persons, and citizens.
- keywords: academic; affairs; basic; campus; citizens; freshman; good; goodwork; incoming; orientation; owls; persons; reflection; resources; responsibilities; role; students; table; undergraduates; university; website; work; workbook; workshops; year
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- jcotr-2873
- author: Jackson, Lisa N.
- title: Review of Preparing Your Campus for Veterans Success: An Integrated Approach to Facilitating the Transition and Persistence of Our Military Students
- date: 2014-06-01
- words: 1998
- flesch: 45
- summary: Additionally, these chapters detail student and administrative services, programs geared specifically 60 THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION AND TRANSITION toward student veterans, and the experiences and challenges student veterans may face while attending community colleges. NODA Journal 21_2.indd 58 THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION AND TRANSITION Preparing Your Campus for Veterans’ Success: An Integrated Approach to Facilitating the Transition and Persistence of Our Military Students by Bruce C. Kelley, Justin M. Smith, and Ernetta L. Fox Published by Stylus Publishing, 2013, 246 pages.
- keywords: authors; book; campus; chapter; classroom; college; higher; important; institutions; learning; military; needs; offices; orientation; population; services; specific; students; sure; traditional; transition; understanding; veterans
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- jcotr-2874
- author: Hanolon, Joel
- title: Review of The First- Year Seminar: Designing, Implementing, and Assessing Courses to Support Student Learning and Success, Volume IV: Using Peers in the Classroom
- date: 2014-06-01
- words: 1558
- flesch: 53
- summary: While there has been much literature published on the importance of a course peer mentor, this volume provides a much needed blueprint of just how to select, train, and utilize peer mentors for maximum impact on first-year students. The First Year Seminar: Designing, Implementing, and Assessing Courses to Supporting Student Learning and Success, Volume IV: Using Peers in the Classroom gives readers a framework to follow in all aspects of working with peer mentors.
- keywords: ashcraft; authors; best; chapter; classroom; courses; latino; mentors; new; peer; practices; professionals; reader; resource; seminar; students; transition; use; volume; year
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- jcotr-2875
- author: Sulak, Tracey N.; Massy, Jennifer; Thomson, David
- title: Using Latent Profile Analysis for a Unique Perspective of a University Transfer Student Cohort
- date: 2014-12-01
- words: 6043
- flesch: 53
- summary: In the current study, LPA was used to classify a diverse cohort of transfer students (n=417) into subclasses based on similar variable distributions and response patterns. Retention of transfer students over the course of their first year at a new institution represents a challenge for the students and a challenge to the universities.
- keywords: academic; achievement; addition; analysis; class; classes; cohort; college; collins; community; current; data; deficiencies; degree; education; fall; fit; gpa; higher; institution; item; journal; lanza; latent; latent class; low; lpa; majors; minority; model; muthén; needs; new; number; orientation; patterns; performance; probabilities; profile; research; response; retention; semester; solution; spring; status; students; study; table; townsend; traditional; transfer; transfer students; transition; university; variables; volume; year; year students; yes
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- jcotr-2876
- author: Bagby, Janet; Barnard-Brak, Lucy; Baggett, Aaron; Sulak, Tracey N.; Walter, Mary; Ragan, Kelsey
- title: Student Veteran Transitions from Combat to College: A Nationwide Analysis
- date: 2014-12-01
- words: 6430
- flesch: 46
- summary: Moreover, student veterans were less likely to seek academic support, choosing instead to pursue social support from associations with other student veterans with whom they were more comfortable. Implications for college campuses, staff, and faculty include the need to dedicate personnel for services to veterans, to educate staff and faculty about the unique characteristics of student veterans, and to identify student veterans on campus.
- keywords: ackerman; administrators; american; bill; campus; campuses; challenges; climate; college; coordinator; current; department; diramio; education; experiences; faculty; fall; hamrick; higher; higher education; institutions; journal; likely; location; military; model; n =; needs; new; non; number; order; orientation; perceptions; population; postsecondary; presence; professors; programs; related; research; respondents; response; results; retention; rumann; self; services; staff; status; student; student veterans; study; support; survey; table; time; transition; universities; university; values; variables; veterans; volume
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- jcotr-2877
- author: Mellish, Linda L.; Corbin, Mary Beth; Smith, Karen; Bowen, Hank
- title: Extracting Leadership Competencies through Training of Orientation Assistants
- date: 2014-12-01
- words: 1754
- flesch: 45
- summary: Again, we asked ourselves, “Is our training developing student leaders? As student leaders, this group has great impact on new students.
- keywords: assistants; competence; expectations; group; impact; incoming; knowledge; komives; leadership; level; model; oas; orientation; post; pre; selection; skills; student; survey; training; transitions; university; week; year; zigarmi
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- jcotr-2878
- author: Waller, Treymayne O.; Smith, Bobby; Lumumba-Kasongo, Enongo A.; Lupa, Daniel J.
- title: The Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program at Cornell University: Survey Results and the Push for Qualitative Research
- date: 2014-12-01
- words: 3996
- flesch: 40
- summary: In terms of linkages between program participation and significantly higher-than-average graduate school enrollment among McNair students, Thomas cited three factors: 1) the importance of supervised research with a faculty member who directly interacted with the student, 2) ongoing mentoring opportunities with an experienced faculty member, and 3) the availability of a skilled academic advisor who could familiarize the student with graduate school opportunities and assist with the application process—especially with applying for financial aid. Although this multi- CAMPUS NOTES Tremayne O. Waller (tow6@cornell.edu) is the Lecturer and Director of the McNair Scholars Program at Cornell University Bobby J. Smith, II is a Doctoral Student in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University Enongo A. Lumumba-Kasongo is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University Daniel J. Lupa is a Counselor for the McNair Scholars Program at Cornell University 42 THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION AND TRANSITION campus federal program was founded more than 25 years ago, there is relatively little research on The McNair Program, and the few studies that do exist can be organized into two categories: studies that describe the general nature and characteristics of McNair programs (Williams, 2004) and a series of targeted reports that provide aggregate data about McNair projects in various parts of the nation (Mansfield, Sargent, & Cahlan, 2002).
- keywords: academic; achievement; achievement program; administrators; college; cornell; cornell university; data; degree; department; e. mcnair; education; experience; faculty; fall; future; graduate; importance; journal; mcnair; mcnair postbaccalaureate; mcnair program; mcnair scholars; number; opportunities; participants; participation; perceptions; perspectives; postbaccalaureate; prior; program; questions; research; results; ronald; ronald e.; scholars; school; skills; specific; students; studies; study; summer; survey; u.s; undergraduate; university
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- jcotr-2879
- author: Hodes, Jacqueline S.
- title: Orientation Shadow Day: An Educational Experience for Graduate Students Preparing for Careers in Student Affairs
- date: 2014-12-01
- words: 2147
- flesch: 44
- summary: Second, as practitioners present information to new students and families, graduate students can discover information about many of the functional areas in student affairs. Finally, orientation is one function where student affairs and academic affairs must work together to successfully transition new students to the institution.
- keywords: affairs; american; campus; chester; college; council; day; development; education; experience; families; function; graduate; higher; information; institution; journal; learning; naspa; new; noda; orientation; planning; preparation; program; shadow; student; student affairs; university; west
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- jcotr-2880
- author: Hayse, Bryan
- title: The First Year Seminar: Designing, Implementing, and Assessing Courses to Support Student Learning and Success, Volume III: Teaching in the First-Year Seminar
- date: 2014-12-01
- words: 1725
- flesch: 51
- summary: This chapter touches on many different areas of how technology can have an effect on student learning, both positively and negatively. In today’s age of accountability, a meaningful piece on student learning would not be complete without devoting some time to assessment.
- keywords: assessment; author; chapter; college; course; education; garner; good; important; instructors; learning; program; seminar; students; success; support; teaching; technology; text; transition; volume; year; year seminar
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- jcotr-2881
- author: Santana, Carlos A.
- title: My Mother's Secret
- date: 2014-12-01
- words: 1581
- flesch: 57
- summary: There are several themes that would make this fascinating book a useful tool for new student programs in higher education. For college students, exploring this theme as they progress through college will be important.
- keywords: characters; college; communities; different; experience; family; franciszka; helena; holocaust; hope; important; jewish; learning; manager; mother; period; readers; rich; right; secret; story; students; survival; time
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- jcotr-2882
- author: Howard-Williams, Benjamin J.
- title: Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution: Voices from Tunis to Damascus
- date: 2014-12-01
- words: 1838
- flesch: 44
- summary: A crash course in modern Arab history by senior history, political science, or international relations students would provide a much-needed setting within which to situate the events described within the text. For residential campuses with strong collaboration among their English, communication, and social sciences departments or for first-year programs in international relations, world history, communication and media studies, cultural studies, or political science, I hope faculty will take up the challenge of engaging students in this important, powerful work.
- keywords: arab; author; book; campuses; cassel; college; cultural; diaries; discussion; events; history; important; international; introduction; media; optimism; people; political; power; powerful; revolution; revolutionary; social; spring; stories; students; text; unfinished; western; works; world; yazbek
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- jcotr-2883
- author: West, Keaton
- title: The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want
- date: 2014-12-01
- words: 1691
- flesch: 46
- summary: The author outlines what people typically believe creates happiness, the program description for lasting happiness, positive psychology, and why increasing and maintaining happiness levels is rewarding. An interesting way to incorporate this text in a psychology class for first-year students would be to direct the students to explore various other studies regarding happiness levels or conducting happiness studies as a class project.
- keywords: activities; author; book; chapter; college; common; fit; happiness; happy; lasting; life; lyubomirsky; participants; personal; program; reader; reading; strategies; strategy; students; text
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- jcotr-2884
- author: Mourer, Marissa
- title: Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
- date: 2014-12-01
- words: 1635
- flesch: 58
- summary: Overall, it is entertaining and accessible for new students. New students on our campuses are entering a whole new world filled with, among other things, our policies and our values.
- keywords: america; book; campuses; chapter; coal; college; disciplines; laskas; management; new; nfl; oil; order; orientation; reader; students; text; transition; voices; waste; work; world
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- jcotr-2885
- author: Saenz, David
- title: A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea
- date: 2014-12-01
- words: 2052
- flesch: 59
- summary: Saba again imagines a story of the strong Mahtab and how she rejected someone’s marriage proposal and decided to concentrate on her studies; on the other hand, poor Saba has to marry Abbas. These voices add multiple female perspectives, deepen the reader’s knowledge of life in Nayeri’s Iran, and offer counterpoints to Saba’s improbable stories.
- keywords: america; best; book; characters; different; earth; iran; islamic; life; mahtab; media; mother; nayeri; novel; opportunity; ponneh; revolution; reza; saba; sea; sister; stories; story; students; teaspoon; terms; text; topics; university; women
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- jcotr-2886
- author: Dika, Sandra L.; Siarzynski-Ferrer, Kristina; Galloway, Kristen; D'Amico, Mark M.
- title: Predicting the Persistence of Undeclared First-Year and Transfer Students
- date: 2015-06-01
- words: 6675
- flesch: 43
- summary: Considering that the prevailing model of student persistence also may not function in the same way for undeclared students, there is a need for studies that focus specifically on this subpopulation to identify the background characteristics, commitments, and institutional experiences that are associated with persistence. Additionally, while theory and previous research on undeclared and undecided students suggest that “decidedness” may be an important factor in student persistence (e.g., Gordon, 1998; 2007), having a career goal or major selected did not increase likelihood to persist among FYFT or transfer undeclared students.
- keywords: academic; advising; advisors; background; career; characteristics; college; college students; commitment; data; decidedness; demographic; development; different; early; education; enrollment; experiences; fit; fyft; gordon; gpa; higher; important; institution; integration; journal; likely; longitudinal; lower; major; math; miles; model; no=; number; orientation; persistence; population; predictors; preparation; prepared; previous; research; sample; semester; significant; social; spring; status; students; studies; study; support; transfer; transfer students; transition; undecided; undeclared; undeclared students; university; variables; volume; white; year; yes=
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- jcotr-2887
- author: Paton, Valerie O.; Elliott, Robert; Barnard-Brak, Lucy; Ryan, Patricia M.
- title: Vertical Transfer Success: Hispanic Student Perceptions of Transfer and Transition Issues
- date: 2015-06-01
- words: 8482
- flesch: 46
- summary: In the report, Alfred Herrera, assistant vice provost at the University of California at Los Angeles, discusses the value that transfer students bring to universities: The obvious advantage in admitting transfer students is that you obtain representation of students from different communities who have different life experiences. The College Board (2011) report specifically addresses the importance of transfer students from community colleges, which enroll the “wide variety of students in American society…” including students who are described in the following quantitative terms: “42 percent are the first in their family to attend college, 46 percent are receiving financial aid and 45 percent are from an underrepresented ethnic minority group” (p. 9).
- keywords: academic; advisement; aid; challenges; characteristics; college; comments; communication; community; community college; completion; crisp; data; degree; different; education; enrollment; experiences; facility; financial; findings; focus; fourth; gard; graduate; group; hispanic; institution; instructional; journal; level; model; number; nunez; orientation; participants; paton; percent; process; program; question; regional; reported; research; researchers; responses; school; site; specific; students; study; study participants; support; survey; theme; time; transfer; transition; university; variables; vertical; volume; work; year; year institution; year participants; year students; year university
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- jcotr-2888
- author: Metz, A.J.; Hu, Qin; Kelly, Alexandra R.; Fox, Andrew R.; Shirley, David; Shirley, Laken
- title: Non-Cognitive Assessment in Higher Education: Social Desirability and the Prediction of College Outcomes
- date: 2015-06-01
- words: 7674
- flesch: 43
- summary: Non-Cognitive Factors Related to College Outcomes Similar to previous research examining non-cognitive assessment and college student outcomes (Robbins et al., 2004; Robbins, et al., 2006), a combination of non-cognitive factors contributed to the prediction of academic performance and persistence. Results also supported the predicted relationships between non-cognitive factors and college grades.
- keywords: academic; analyses; assessment; bias; campus; casillas; cognitive; cognitive assessment; cognitive factors; college; comfort; commitment; correlations; degree; desirability; desirable; differences; education; efficacy; engagement; ethnic; example; factors; gender; gpa; group; higher; individual; institutions; intentions; inventory; journal; measures; minority; national; non; number; orientation; outcomes; partial; participants; performance; persistence; prediction; predictors; psychology; rates; regression; research; response; results; retention; risk; robbins; sample; school; scores; self; significant; social; social desirability; ssi; strengths; students; study; subscales; success; survey; time; transition; undergraduate; university; use; variables; variance; women; year
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- jcotr-2889
- author: Rode, Denise
- title: Interview with Joe Cuseo
- date: 2015-06-01
- words: 3354
- flesch: 43
- summary: Beginning college students need time to mature developmentally, to familiarize themselves with the college curriculum, to explore their options, and to discover their educational and vocational identity. Legislative budgetary pressure to expedite students’ time to graduation, coupled with the pre professional program accrediting agencies adding more course requirements for accreditation in their specialized field, are combining to put more pressure on new students to make early and perhaps premature decisions about committing to a college major.
- keywords: academic; advising; affairs; campus; career; change; college; course; development; education; effective; efforts; experience; faculty; field; fye; graduate; higher; interests; joe; journal; learning; movement; needs; new; orientation; professional; professor; programs; psychology; research; school; student; success; support; teaching; term; time; transition; undergraduate; university; year; year experience
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- jcotr-2890
- author: Koch, Lindsey; Christopher, Mary
- title: Sexual Violence Prevention Training During Orientation: What Students Need to Know
- date: 2015-06-01
- words: 1856
- flesch: 42
- summary: Unfortunately, college students often serve as easy prey for people with poor intentions. As previously mentioned, college students often consider themselves invincible.
- keywords: act; assault; campus; clery; college; consent; decisions; education; federal; healthy; information; institutions; journal; kaplin; lee; orientation; personnel; prevention; programs; rape; relationships; requirements; safety; security; sexual; students; title; university; victims; violence
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- jcotr-2891
- author: Dickinson, Amber R.
- title: Training Peer Educators: A Practical Guide to Preparing Student Leaders
- date: 2015-06-01
- words: 6777
- flesch: 55
- summary: In order to measure the level of effectiveness the training program had on peer educators, students who completed peer educator training were asked to complete a student evaluation form. What could be done to improve the quality of peer educator training in the future?
- keywords: activities; activity; benefits; campus; classroom; college; comfortable; comments; course; degree; duties; educator training; educators; evaluation; exceptional; experience; faculty; feedback; help; important; information; institution; journal; learning; little; lot; new; number; order; orientation; peer; peer educators; pes; prepared; program; role; semester; sense; skills; spring; students; success; table; team; time; training; training program; transition; volume; work; year
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- jcotr-2892
- author: Longwell-Grice, Robert; Pasternak, Donna
- title: Across the Divide: A Pre-College Program Helping High School Students Learn About ‘The Other’
- date: 2015-06-01
- words: 3408
- flesch: 49
- summary: Findings reveal that when institutions of higher education help connect and facilitate discussions among high school students, the potential benefits are high. Exposing high school students to diversity issues, while introducing them to a college experience, helps prepare them to ultimately take an active role in their communities.
- keywords: atd; campus; class; college; communities; curriculum; day; different; diverse; diversity; divide; education; experiences; globetti; high; high school; higher; hurtado; interactions; issues; journal; milwaukee; new; number; pre; program; race; racial; rural; school; school students; social; students; teachers; transition; trip; understanding; urban; uwm; wisconsin
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- jcotr-2893
- author: Allen, Evette
- title: 2009 National Survey of First-Year Seminars: Ongoing Efforts to Support Students in Transition
- date: 2015-06-01
- words: 1601
- flesch: 43
- summary: There is also evidence of specific types of groups being required to take seminar courses. The book is divided into three main sections, which include a section on seminar types, characteristics, and administration; a section on the instruction and pedagogy of first-year seminars; and a section on assessing first-year seminars.
- keywords: academic; authors; book; campus; class; common; course; institutions; orientation; professional; program; section; seminar; size; skills; students; study; topics; types; year; year seminar
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- jcotr-2894
- author: Acosta, Alan
- title: Making Hope Happen
- date: 2015-06-01
- words: 1517
- flesch: 60
- summary: These ideas, while not necessarily new, are backed in research and will resonate with higher education professionals passionate about increasing student hope and success in college. Shane Lopez, author of Making Hope Happen, challenges the all too familiar conceptions and ideas people have of hope.
- keywords: book; campus; education; future; goals; higher; hope; ideas; lopez; people; present; process; professionals; self; setting; strategies; students; work
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- jcotr-2895
- author: Littlepage, Ben
- title: Influence of Academic Goal Commitment on Late Registrant Success
- date: 2015-12-01
- words: 3839
- flesch: 47
- summary: The literature reviewed on late registration did not account for the influence motivation and academic goal commitment had on student academic success. Enrollment management and first-year experience personnel at commuter and community colleges are imperative to coordinating a comprehensive, collaborative effort to address the salient issue of student academic success.
- keywords: academic; academic success; associate; attrition; career; classes; college; commitment; community; community college; commuter; completion; degree; enrollment; fall; gender; goal; gpa; hours; journal; late; late registrants; level; likely; model; motivation; nursing; orientation; persistence; registrants; registration; relationship; research; status; students; study; success; successful; term; time; transfer; variables; year
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- jcotr-2896
- author: Keup, Jennifer R.; Padgett, Ryan D.; Kilgo, Cindy A.; Deitering, Anne-Marie
- title: Instructional Characteristics of Information Literacy Programs in the First College Year
- date: 2015-12-01
- words: 3923
- flesch: 33
- summary: Most notably, English classes and first-year seminars remain important course-based vehicles for information literacy instruction, and librarians continue to serve as the key developers and purveyors of information literacy content in the first year. The literature also identifies librarian-led instructional modules in first-year seminars as a common delivery method for information literacy content, which not only facilitate the development of information literacy in students but also results in an increased appreciation of expertise between faculty and librarians, enhancement of teaching- SPRING 2013 • VOLUME 20, NUMBER 2 7 related development opportunities for librarians, and greater understanding among librarians of students’ needs, challenges, and abilities (Frazier, 2006; Sugarman & Mosby, 2002).
- keywords: academic; american; analyses; association; boff; campuses; classroom; college; composition; content; course; current; data; delivery; education; english; experience; faculty; findings; freshman; information; information literacy; institutions; instruction; johnson; journal; learning; librarians; library; literacy; methods; national; orientation; practices; primary; programs; research; respondents; seminars; strategies; students; study; survey; transition; university; writing; year; year students
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- jcotr-2897
- author: Clausen, Charles; Wessel, Roger D.
- title: Transfer Shock: Predicting Academic Success after Transition
- date: 2015-12-01
- words: 5181
- flesch: 50
- summary: Learning the ropes: A case study of the academic and social experiences of college transfer students within a developing university-college articulation framework. Most research on student transfer has observed former community college students and how they perform academically at their new institution (Kozeracki, 2001).
- keywords: 0.001; academic; age; analysis; bsu; campus; cast; cejda; coefficients; college; community; cumulative; data; education; fall; gpa; gpas; graduation; higher; horizontal; institution; integration; journal; likely; model; new; number; observed; posttransfer; posttransfer gpa; previous; previous institution; regression; research; researchers; sex; shock; significant; social; students; study; table; transfer; transfer students; transition; type; university; variables; year; year graduation; year institution
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- jcotr-2898
- author: Foxx, Krystal A.
- title: Social and Academic Investment: Exploring a Formal Peer Mentoring Program for First-Year Engineering Students
- date: 2015-12-01
- words: 11495
- flesch: 47
- summary: According to Sanft, Jensen, & McMurray (2008), student mentees often get student mentors who get them involved with social resources and networks both inside and outside of the classroom. Student Mentees’ Perceived Role of Peer Mentoring Relationships Peer mentoring relationships have significantly contributed to higher education and provided many benefits for first-year student mentees, such as improving academically, accessing resources and social networks on campus, and providing a sense of belonging by connecting with other student peers who can relate to their experiences (Clark & Crome, 2004; Colvin & Ashman, 2010; Glaser, Hall, & Halperin, 2006; Rodger & Tremblay, 2003).
- keywords: able; academic; access; american; benefits; better; black; bryson; campus; capital; challenges; classes; classroom; college; color; courses; education; engineering; engineering students; environment; ethnicity; experiences; factors; faculty; fall; female; formal; formal peer; gender; graduate; group; help; higher; highlights; important; institutions; interactions; issues; journal; major; members; mentees; mentoring; mentors; nancy; need; networks; new; number; opportunities; orientation; participants; peer; peer mentoring; peer mentors; perceptions; personal; process; program; race; racial; relationships; research; resources; retention; role; roy; social; social capital; stem; student mentees; students; study; success; support; taking; theory; time; transition; underrepresented; university; volume; women; work; year; year students
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- jcotr-2899
- author: Johnson, Jennifer Adrienne; Duncan, Mary Katherine; Schoener, Ashley Elizabeth
- title: A First-Year Undergraduate Summer Assignment Designed to Introduce and Reinforce Good Work Concepts
- date: 2015-12-01
- words: 1836
- flesch: 51
- summary: To achieve this mission, our team has integrated good work concepts into curricular and extracurricular activities, provided opportunities for students to reflect upon their academic work, and strengthened the culture of good work on campus by highlighting role models of excellence, ethics, and CAMPUS NOTES Jennifer Adrienne Johnson (jjohnson@bloomu.edu) is an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Mary Katherine Duncan is a Joan and Fred Miller Distinguished Professor of Good Work in the Depart- ment of Psychology at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Ashley Elizabeth Schoener is in Department of Counseling Psychology at the University of North Dakota FALL 2015 • VOLUME 23, NUMBER 1 39 engagement. The assignment was designed to first introduce students to good work concepts through a brief reading, then reinforce the concepts through two case analyses, and finally challenge students to apply their understanding of the concepts by writing an essay about their own professional role model of good work.
- keywords: assignment; college; concepts; duncan; eshaghoff; essays; ethical; fall; good; high; johnson; programming; reading; role; students; summer; understanding; university; work; year
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- jcotr-2900
- author: Smith, Kelly; Rode, Denise
- title: Common Reading Experience: Assessing a Growing High-Impact Practice
- date: 2015-12-01
- words: 1695
- flesch: 47
- summary: However, in the infancy of the NIU CRE program, assessment focused mainly on logistical and practical items, such as creating opportunities to expose the book to first- year students, incorporating the book into academic course sections across the university, increasing student participation in CRE-related events, and partnering with a wide variety of university and community partners. Soria’s research directly links CRE program outcomes to six of NIU’s SLOs (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 8).
- keywords: assessment; book; campus; college; common; community; cre; event; experience; fall; figure; impact; interfaith; large; learning; niu; outcomes; program; qualitative; reading; report; respondents; slos; students; survey; university; year
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- jcotr-2901
- author: Barnes, James W.G.
- title: A Legacy of Leadership: Involving Returning Orientation Leaders in Recruitment and Selection
- date: 2015-12-01
- words: 1513
- flesch: 40
- summary: It is in this spirit of legacy that I named returning student staff members “legacy orientation leaders” at the University of California, Merced. As torchbearers of the orientation leader position, legacy orientation leaders promote this job to fellow students as an opportunity to grow and learn, inspire classmates to apply through their example, and use their leadership experience to help identify candidates of great quality, skill, and potential.
- keywords: application; california; group; help; individual; interview; leaders; leadership; legacy; members; merced; new; orientation; position; processes; program; recruitment; selection; staff; student; team; torchbearers; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2902
- author: Smith, Nick
- title: The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities
- date: 2015-12-01
- words: 1651
- flesch: 66
- summary: by Will Allen Published by Penguin, 2012, 272 pages Reviewed by Nick Smith (NicholasSmith@ferris.edu), Ferris State University The Good Food Revolution by Will Allen is a great read for first-year college students. Will Allen has followed many career paths through his life, but he has always remained a farmer at heart.
- keywords: african; allen; area; basketball; book; bussler; career; college; community; family; farming; food; greenhouse; market; new; opportunity; parker; path; school; students; time; urban; year
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- jcotr-2903
- author: Woo, Hongryun; Henfield, Malik S.; Byrd, Janice A.; Richardson, Taryn
- title: Preparing Doctoral Students to Succeed in Counselor Education Programs: An Exploratory Study of New Doctoral Student Orientations
- date: 2017-12-01
- words: 6991
- flesch: 44
- summary: Keywords: counselor education, doctoral student orientation Despite the challenges and difficulties new doctoral students in CE programs encounter in the early stages of transition to doctoral education and the profession (Hughes & Kleist, 2005), understanding of student orientations and students’ perceptions of them is largely absent in the counseling profession.
- keywords: academic; activities; american; analysis; attrition; auditors; cacrep; cases; categories; college; consideration; core; counseling; counselor; data; different; dissertation; doctoral; doctoral students; domains; education; educators; expectations; experiences; faculty; findings; follow; future; goals; graduate; helpful; hill; ideas; incoming; information; journal; needs; new; number; opportunities; orientation; participants; perceptions; personal; potential; process; professional; programs; qualitative; questions; research; resources; responses; retention; semester; social; student orientation; students; study; success; support; systems; team; time; transition; university; volume; year
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- jcotr-2904
- author: Heinisch, Benjamin P.
- title: Small Fish Out of Water: Rural First-Generation Student Experience at a Large University
- date: 2017-12-01
- words: 5228
- flesch: 52
- summary: Studies that explored rural student experience found that rural students desired communal connections in college similar to those found in their hometown (Handke, 2012; Schultz & Neighbors, 2007). Rural identity in a mixed rural-urban social environment: Investigating rural college student identity and how it changes during the college experience.
- keywords: academic; area; campus; challenges; college; college students; data; education; experience; faculty; fewer; findings; firstgeneration; friends; generation; generation students; high; hometown; information; journal; knowledge; lack; large; learning; life; new; number; opportunities; orientation; parents; participants; people; planning; professors; qualitative; questions; research; rural; rural students; schlossberg; school; schultz; small; social; students; study; support; systems; time; transition; university; volume; work; year
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- jcotr-2905
- author: Magley, Tura M.; Barnes, Matthew G.; Schlichte, Garrett P.
- title: Cultivating Connection: Developing Empathy in Peer Leadership
- date: 2017-12-01
- words: 2629
- flesch: 46
- summary: Student leaders may select a topic relevant to the campus community and talk about actionable steps students can take to improve the social climate around them, or student leaders may identify a broader, global topic and educate students about how to get involved. In our various experiences as previous student leaders turned student affairs professionals, we found a common thread in our work which made a tremendous difference in the development of student leaders and the students they served—the ability to create and maintain meaningful empathic connections.
- keywords: ability; able; art; assessment; change; college; conversation; curriculum; development; different; empathic; empathy; experiences; help; identity; issue; journal; krznaric; leaders; leadership; measures; new; orientation; peer; people; person; research; skills; social; student; training; transition
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- jcotr-2906
- author: Witkowsky, Patricia; Kumm, Carol; Mendez, Sylvia; Nicholson, Heather; Dimandja, Oluwafolakemi Ogunbowo; Morris, Phillip
- title: Comparing Military-Connected and NonMilitary-Connected Students’ Orientation Experiences
- date: 2017-12-01
- words: 2029
- flesch: 34
- summary: Student veterans: A national survey exploring psychological symptoms and suicide risk. Considering student veterans on the twenty-first-century college campus.
- keywords: benefits; campus; college; colorado; community; connected; education; experience; higher; journal; military; needs; non; orientation; overall; peers; program; session; significant; springs; students; study; survey; transfer; transition; uccs; university; veteran
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- jcotr-2907
- author: Gomez, S. Terri; Santiago-González, Cecilia
- title: PolyTransfer: A Dynamic and Collaborative Approach to Transfer Student Success
- date: 2017-12-01
- words: 1628
- flesch: 37
- summary: PolyTransfer is focused on recruitment, enrollment, engagement, retention, and increasing timely graduation of transfer students, especially among underrepresented minority (URM) and first-generation students. Between fall 2001 and fall 2014, the number of transfer students grew by 121%, from 1,362 to 3,021 students.
- keywords: academic; cal; campus; college; community; culture; enrollment; graduation; impact; institution; new; policies; polytransfer; pomona; practices; program; receptive; research; review; services; significant; social; students; success; support; team; transfer; transition; underrepresented; university; year
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- jcotr-2908
- author: Gaskin, Sylvester; Williams, Maia
- title: Developing Orientation Leader Training Using Appreciative Inquiry
- date: 2017-12-01
- words: 2250
- flesch: 54
- summary: In preparing for summer orientation programming, the training and continual development of student orientation staff takes incredible planning and foresight to ensure student leaders have the skills to do their jobs effectively. Through conversations with student staff and professional employees, one question kept coming up: How can we do training better?
- keywords: appreciative; assessment; change; college; development; education; inquiry; journal; leaders; learning; new; nsp; ols; orientation; otls; participants; phase; planning; positive; process; sda; staff; student; time; towson; training; university
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- jcotr-2909
- author: McKenzie, Brenda; Iverson, Susan V.; Reynolds, Kyle P.
- title: Developing Professionals: A Qualitative Study of Students' Experiences in an Undergraduate Course on "Careers in Higher Education"
- date: 2017-12-01
- words: 6120
- flesch: 44
- summary: Haley, Hephner, and Koutas (2011) identified that new HESA graduate students face academic, geographical, and emotional transitions and that these transitions are ongoing throughout the degree process (p. 8). Garnering insight on why students choose HESA could provide direction for graduate preparation programs, including what to address when orienting new graduate students.
- keywords: affairs; analysis; application; campus; career; cohort; college; competencies; course; data; decision; development; education; experience; field; fit; graduate; graduate school; graduate students; hesa; higher; involvement; job; journal; kolb; learning; life; making; naspa; new; number; opportunities; orientation; participants; practice; preparation; process; profession; professionals; program; renn; research; residence; respondents; school; shadowing; socialization; stage; student affairs; students; studies; study; time; transition; undergraduate; understanding; work
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- jcotr-2910
- author: Pickard, Luke; Brunton, Julie
- title: An Outdoor Orientation Program in its Infancy, Student Perception Influencing Best Practice
- date: 2017-12-01
- words: 6283
- flesch: 54
- summary: Further outcome- and evidence-based studies are needed to examine outdoor orientation program elements to better understand how and what elements support student retention (Cortez, 2014). Literature Review Issues of student retention are of great importance to universities not just in the UK, but also throughout the world.
- keywords: academic; accommodation; activities; activity; adventure; analysis; appropriate; astin; bar; bell; belonging; better; chart; college; content; current; data; development; education; effective; elements; environment; evaluation; expectations; experience; feelings; figure; findings; friends; future; groups; higher; important; journal; key; literature; mean; method; negative; number; oop; oops; orientation; outdoor; outdoor orientation; participants; peers; people; physical; point; programs; questionnaire; questions; range; recommendations; research; residential; responses; retention; scale; social; specific; staff; students; study; success; support; timing; transition; type; universities; university; use; volume; year
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- jcotr-2911
- author: Fletcher-Anthony, Wilma; Efthymiou, Lampeto
- title: Assessment of a College Orientation Course for International Students
- date: 2017-12-01
- words: 2274
- flesch: 42
- summary: The positive feelings reported in this survey could be a function of the course’s innovative approaches, including collaboration between college counseling centers and international student services, designation of a counselor for international students, direct counselor contact with international students, and the provision of counselor-led groups specifically for international students (Crockett & Hays, 2011; Komiya & Eells, 2001; Mori, 2000; Yi, Lin, & Kishimoto, 2003). The Counseling Center at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York offers a free 10-hour course (ST-100) to assist international students as they navigate these challenges.
- keywords: academic; blackboard; career; center; challenges; ciaisa; college; community; counseling; countries; course; education; expectations; instructor; international; international students; journal; need; number; online; orientation; personal; queensborough; questions; results; services; st-100; students; study; survey; system; transition; university; week
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- jcotr-2912
- author: Wilkin, Joshua
- title: How the Implementation of a First-Year Experience Program Could Improve Student Satisfaction and Sense of Belonging at an Urban Mid-Sized College: A Qualitative Study Utilizing Students' Perceptions.
- date: 2017-12-01
- words: 1880
- flesch: 52
- summary: Given this information, in its most current strategic plan, the college mentioned implementing a first-year experience program for students to improve student satisfaction and sense of belonging at the college. While it is important for administrators to provide their own input, they sometimes fail to recognize that students can provide valuable suggestions and proper insight into what services they need in order to improve student satisfaction and sense of belonging at college.
- keywords: campus; college; experience; experience program; first-; information; journal; participants; perceptions; program; research; satisfaction; second-; sense; students; study; support; transition; university; year; year experience
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- jcotr-2913
- author: Claxton, Bunnie; Claxton, Russ; Keith, Deanna; Yocum, Russ
- title: Support Services for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Higher Education
- date: 2018-06-01
- words: 4459
- flesch: 47
- summary: Student participants were required to be residential students 18 years of age or older. In order to qualify, student participants had to satisfy one of the following conditions: a) currently attending the University, b) dropped out of the University within the last year, or c) dropped out and then returned to the University.
- keywords: academic; accommodations; asd; assistance; autism; case; challenges; college; data; disabilities; disability; disability support; disorder; education; environment; factors; faculty; group; higher; impact; individuals; journal; learning; needs; number; offices; online; orientation; participants; positive; postsecondary; research; school; self; services; services offices; setting; social; spectrum; students; study; success; support; support services; themes; transition; university; volume
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- jcotr-2914
- author: Connolly, Sara; Oberleitner, David; Guarneri, Joseph
- title: Tracking Social Isolation, Academic Self-Effifacy and Adjustment to College: Self-Reported Perceptions Across the First Semester of College
- date: 2018-06-01
- words: 5189
- flesch: 52
- summary: Despite some of the issues that college students may face, there are well- established benefits to pursuing a college degree: College graduates earn more, over their lifetime, than non-college graduates; college students also experience higher levels of psychosocial and cognitive development when compared to their non-attending counterparts (Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005). Although engagement and success have been widely studied, other factors have, at times, been neglected in regards to how these constructs may impact the success (broadly defined) of college students.
- keywords: academic; academic self; adjustment; college; college adjustment; college students; data; downey; efficacy; f(1; factors; health; high; higher; impact; isolation; items; journal; low; lower; mean; negative; number; orientation; overall; participants; perceptions; point; psychology; questions; rejection; rejection sensitivity; related; reported; research; sample; scale; school; self; selfefficacy; sensitivity; social; social isolation; students; study; success; survey; time; transition; year
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- jcotr-2915
- author: Harper, Casandra E.; Kiyama, Judy Marquez; Ramos, Delma; Aguayo, David
- title: Examining the Inclusivity of Parent and Family College Orientations: A Directed Content Analysis
- date: 2018-06-01
- words: 5363
- flesch: 41
- summary: Among parent and family programming staff, parent orientation programs are consistently cited as a pride point among the services and programs offered (Savage & Petree, 2013). More than punch and cookies: A new look at parent orientation programs.
- keywords: additional; affairs; analysis; association; campus; charge; college; college orientation; college students; communication; content; cost; development; duration; education; experience; families; family; fee; fees; francisco; hall; harper; higher; important; inclusive; inclusivity; information; institutions; involvement; journal; kiyama; language; members; new; online; orientation; orientation programs; parents; programming; programs; research; resources; role; sample; san; services; sessions; specific; students; study; success; support; transition; university
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- jcotr-2916
- author: Oliveri, Christiane; Funke, Karen; Clark, Jennifer; Seifert, Tricia A.
- title: Blueprints for Student Success: High School Students' Questions about the Transtition to College
- date: 2018-06-01
- words: 7679
- flesch: 51
- summary: College students in changing contexts. College students in the United States: Characteristics, experiences, and outcomes.
- keywords: academic; admissions; advising; aid; analysis; application; approach; byun; capital; career; categories; category; center; classes; college; college knowledge; college readiness; college students; communities; community; counselors; curriculum; data; education; example; expectations; experience; family; financial; frontier; game; groups; help; hidden; high; high school; higher; higher education; information; irvin; journal; knowledge; major; meece; method; montana; national; need; new; number; orientation; partnerships; people; process; programs; qualitative; questions; readiness; research; resources; rural; rural students; school; school students; services; small; staff; state; students; study; success; support; team; time; transition; understanding; university; volume; work; year
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- jcotr-2917
- author: Scharp, Kristina M.; Hall, Elizabeth Dorrance; Sanders, Matthew; Colver, Mitchell
- title: The Relationship Between Students' Family Communication, Transition Efficacy, and Communication Skill
- date: 2018-06-01
- words: 5241
- flesch: 44
- summary: This means that unlike we predicted, conformity orientation does not have negative effects on student efficacy, but instead seems to play little to no role in students’ confidence in their academic, 68 THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION AND TRANSITION growing up, or financial abilities or their actual communication ability. Despite what we know about the experiences of college students during the transition, Cole, Kennedy and Ben-Avie (2009) argue that universities know little about how students’ family environments relate to their ability to transition successfully.
- keywords: ability; academic; children; college; communication; confidence; conformity; conversation; dorrance; efficacy; environment; example; factors; families; family; family communication; fcp; financial; fitzpatrick; hall; help; high; higher; important; items; journal; koerner; likely; orientation; parents; patterns; relationship; research; results; scale; self; skill; social; students; study; success; support; theory; time; transition; transition efficacy; year
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- jcotr-2918
- author: Wilhite, Kathryn B.
- title: Evaluating Empowerment Language During the First-Year Student Transition
- date: 2018-06-01
- words: 2072
- flesch: 44
- summary: In consideration of foundational knowledge about adjustment and language, this study evaluates how well messages to incoming students empower their success by defining the institutional environment and the student role within the environment. The task of communicating with incoming students is a dual responsibility in which orientation programs serve both recruitment and retention functions (Hossler & Anderson, 2005).
- keywords: adjustment; astin; balance; choices; college; communication; documents; empowerment; environment; experiences; foucault; inc; incoming; institutional; knowledge; language; messages; orientation; rubric; san; strategies; students; study; transition; weimer; word; year
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- jcotr-2919
- author: Grace-Bridges, Re'Shanda
- title: Generation Z Goes to College
- date: 2018-06-01
- words: 1643
- flesch: 41
- summary: Despite a lifestyle of constant connectivity, Seemiller and Grace (2016) found that “83 percent of Generation Z students prefer face-to-face communication because it allows them to connect better and read the other person” (p. 61). Furthermore, the study revealed, “a quarter of Generation Z students indicate that they do not like e-mail, and almost half indicate that they only somewhat like it” (p. 60).
- keywords: administrators; authors; book; campuses; chapters; college; communication; concerns; education; faculty; generation; grace; higher; learning; parents; preferences; professionals; seemiller; social; students; styles; support
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- jcotr-2938
- author: Annie Cole
- title: High School Graduates’ Perceptions of Factors that Will Impact Academic Success in College
- date: 2021-04-26
- words: 6671
- flesch: 48
- summary: Although the body of literature offers great insight into factors that are linked to college student success, the majority of studies have focused on the relationship between student factors (age, ACT score) and academic outcomes in college (college GPA, retention) without reference to student perceptions about these factors and outcomes. A weak correlational relationship also exists between age and academic success; as age goes up, GPA goes up for college students (Ross, 2003).
- keywords: academic; academic success; access; activities; adjustment; analysis; codes; college; college academic; college student; college success; count; data; descriptive; experiences; factors; fgen; gender; gpa; graduates; health; high; high school; higher; identity; impact; impactful; interests; journal; learner; literature; mental; narrative; non; outcomes; participants; perceptions; performance; personal; personal factors; research; resources; responses; retention; school; second; self; social; status; student perceptions; students; study; success; survey; theme; time; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-2969
- author: Madrid, Sergio
- title: Atypical: Life with Asperger's in 20 1/3 Chapters
- date: 2020-12-07
- words: 1129
- flesch: 43
- summary: THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION, TRANSITION, AND RETENTION1 BOOK REVIEW Atypical: Life with Asperger’s in 20 1/3 chapters Author: Jesse A. Saperstein Published by: The Penguin Group, 2010, 240 pages Reviewed by: Sergio E. Madrid, Family Outreach and Aggie Welcome & Orientation, New Mexico State University This autobiographic material from Jesse Saperstein is a contemporary masterpiece by its own right. In a broader sense, this sort of misunderstanding is true not only for atypical individuals but for many incoming freshmen dealing with the college setting for the first time.
- keywords: asperger; atypical; author; autism; book; chapters; college; different; education; honest; human; individual; life; narrative; neurotypical; orientation; perspective; reading; saperstein; society; student
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- jcotr-2975
- author: Flynn, Stephen; Laflamme, Eric; Hays, Danica
- title: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Supports and Barriers for Rural College Students
- date: 2020-12-07
- words: 12504
- flesch: 59
- summary: How do college students define college preparedness? : The key factors in college students.
- keywords: academic; administration; advising; agree; analysis; barriers; campus; college; college students; community; content; culture; cvi; d en; data; de n; development; diverse; e n; e t; educational; en ts; examples; experience; expert; factors; faculty; focus; focus group; generation; group; importance; initial; interventions; interview; io n; items; journal; lack; level; m e; meaning; methods; mixed; n al; n d; n g; n iv; n n; n s; n si; n t; need; number; orientation; panel; participant; perceptions; personal; phase; populations; qualitative; questions; r e; r n; relationships; research; resources; retention; risk; rural; rural college; s d; s tu; sample; services; setting; staff; stakeholder; standards; state; students; study; success; supports; survey; t io; t r; t s; team; theme; ti n; transition; tu d; ty n; u n; units; university; year
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- jcotr-3030
- author: Giampaolo, Lisa A.; Graham, Frances D.
- title: Student Veterans: Does How We Welcome Them Matter?
- date: 2020-12-07
- words: 5848
- flesch: 41
- summary: Student veterans who attended an orientation session with veteran- specific content (Group C) reported a statistically significant increase in their sense of mattering to their school over student veterans who did not attend any orientation session (Group A), allowing us to assert a positive relationship between a student veteran-specific orientation experience with an increased sense of mattering to their school for the student veterans who were surveyed. Using quasi- experimental research design, and Schlossberg’s constructs of mattering and marginality in higher education as a lens, this study sought to discover if student veterans experienced differing levels of mattering to their schools when categorized by the type of orientation they attended.
- keywords: bill; campus; carnegie; college; college orientation; content; counseling; culture; design; different; education; et al; experience; focused; france; group; help; higher; higher education; impact; institutions; journal; marginality; mattering; military; national; new; number; orientation; orientation programs; population; practices; programs; relationship; research; researchers; schlossberg; school; scores; sense; services; session; significant; specific; sra; student; student orientation; student veterans; study; success; support; survey; table; transition; type; umum; universities; university; vacchi; veterans
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- jcotr-3062
- author: Vicente M. Lechuga; Tearney Woodruff; Vassa Grichko; Kevin Bazner
- title: Adapting to College Life After Military Service: A Motivational Perspective
- date: 2021-04-26
- words: 8579
- flesch: 46
- summary: Student veterans are more diverse than the college population at large with 61.8% of student veterans being first- generation college students (Kim & Cole, 2013). This study explores how student veterans draw on principles of self-determination theory, focusing on the learning processes shaping their abilities to adapt to new environments, namely college.
- keywords: ability; academic; administrators; amy; autonomy; behavior; campus; case; center; college; community; competence; data; deci; department; determination; determined; development; diramio; education; edwin; environment; example; experiences; external; faculty; frank; help; higher; importance; individuals; institution; intrinsic; intrinsic motivation; journal; learning; life; like; lincoln; literature; members; military; motivated; motivation; needs; new; number; office; organization; orientation; participants; people; programs; relatedness; research; resource; ryan; self; sense; service; single; skills; social; staff; student; student veterans; study; success; successful; support; theory; time; transition; university; veterans
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- jcotr-3099
- author: Callais, Victoria
- title: Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
- date: 2020-12-07
- words: 1328
- flesch: 52
- summary: In Sherry Turkle’s Reclaiming Conversations: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age she critically analyzes how humans have turned away from conversation in favor of digital communication. Although these consequences of digital communication are disconcerting, Turkle does not suggest that we abandon digital communication entirely.
- keywords: book; chair; communication; conversation; digital; face; orientation; people; person; self; solitude; talk; technology; transition; turkle
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- jcotr-3263
- author: Jones, Madison
- title: The Wind in Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and The City That Would Not Be Broken
- date: 2020-05-12
- words: 1504
- flesch: 66
- summary: Regarding the man-made part of the Catholic church, Pierce explains, “The racial resentment of white New Orleans Catholics–including many priests–was so overwhelming that it defined them even more strongly than loyalty to church authority and Catholic teaching” (p. 114). THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION, TRANSITION, AND RETENTION1 BOOK REVIEW The Wind in Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and The City That Would Not Be Broken Edited by: Wendell Pierce Reviewed by: Madison Jones, Intern, To Write Love on Her Arms The Wind in the Reeds by Wendell Pierce is a memoir intertwined with rich personal accounts of New Orleans pre- and post-Katrina and the life-changing power of art, especially in relation to community.
- keywords: art; black; book; catholic; family; katrina; life; military; new; orleans; people; personal; pierce; reeds; stories; storm; way; wind
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- jcotr-3264
- author: Flowers, Kyle
- title: The Office of Mercy
- date: 2020-05-12
- words: 1501
- flesch: 51
- summary: This government office keeps track of the number of tribe members swept, and tallies them along with other settlements across The North American continent. The story of Natasha Wiley moves readers through her experience in America-5 and the settlement’s progress in clean sweeps of tribes on The Outside.
- keywords: america-5; american; book; college; cranes; experience; indigenous; live; members; mercy; natasha; office; outside; people; reader; settlement; story; sweep; tribes
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- jcotr-3265
- author: D’Arcy, Christine
- title: Straddling Class in the Academy: 26 Stories of Students, Administrators, and Faculty from Poor and Working-Class Backgrounds and Their Compelling Lessons for Higher Education Policy and Practice
- date: 2020-05-12
- words: 1363
- flesch: 39
- summary: As the authors and contributors note, class identity development as a theoretical construct is not as prominent in higher education compared to other identities, so scholarship about or discussions of class identity are likely not something that professionals in the field have encountered, even if they themselves may identify with those backgrounds. Is class identity part of this conversation? • How are Welcome Week and other transition experience programs assuming class identity?
- keywords: academy; assumptions; authors; backgrounds; class; education; higher; identities; identity; orientation; poor; professionals; social; stories; students; text; transition; working
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- jcotr-3266
- author: Hale, Jessica
- title: Paths to Learning: Teaching for Engagement in College
- date: 2020-05-12
- words: 1602
- flesch: 38
- summary: Chapter 2, by Jillian Kinzie, summarizes theories and practices that result in student learning, introducing learning from a neuroscience perspective and discussing effective approaches to quality undergraduate education from institutional and instructional perspectives. Group size, duration, and task complexity are identified as moderating factors and several common interactive learning strategies are described, including problem-based learning, case-based learning, team- based learning, jigsaw, and think-pair-share.
- keywords: approaches; author; book; brief; chapter; classroom; college; contemplative; critical; discussion; diverse; education; engagement; faculty; learner; learning; methods; online; orientation; overview; pedagogical; pedagogy; practice; research; social; students; teaching; text; theories; tobolowsky; undergraduate
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- jcotr-3267
- author: Sedotti, Maria A.
- title: Building Transfer Student Pathways for College and Career Success
- date: 2020-05-12
- words: 1802
- flesch: 41
- summary: It provides examples and recommendations to support transfer students, and the strategies that lead to best practices with this population. This publication is intended to provide practitioners with data and other information to help influence change and intentionally create institutional cultures where transfer students thrive.
- keywords: assessment; career; chapter; college; community; completion; data; degree; educational; information; institution; learning; orientation; pathways; population; post; program; publication; secondary; shapiro; stereotype; students; success; transfer
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- jcotr-3268
- author: Jackson, Lisa N.
- title: Black Administrators in Higher Education: Autoethnographic Explorations and Personal Narratives
- date: 2020-05-12
- words: 1296
- flesch: 45
- summary: As institutions of higher learning have been seeing an increase in underrepresented populations, more specifically Black students, conversations continue to happen around the disparity of Black administrators in higher education. Being an administrator in higher education, I know there is a gap in research discussing the journey of Black administrators in the field.
- keywords: administrators; affairs; black; book; chapter; college; education; harpe; higher; leadership; level; positions; professionals; senior; shares; stories; student
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- jcotr-3296
- author: Smith, Steven; Brophy, Tom; Daniels, Adam
- title: How a Public Relations Crisis Led to the Development of a Partnership Between Academics and Student Affairs to Enhance Student Success.
- date: 2020-12-07
- words: 4642
- flesch: 46
- summary: In the first year of our existence, the FYE Committee had the mandate to review the existing state of student success, identify barriers, improve student success through best practice-based academic and co-curricular programs, work across Faculties and across all aspects of the University to improve student experience in the first year, and develop a budget model for go-forward funding of projects. THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION, TRANSITION, AND RETENTION1 FEATURED ARTICLE How a Public Relations Crisis Led to the Development of a Partnership Between Academics and Student Affairs to Enhance Student Success Steven M. Smith, Enrollment Services and Department of Psychology, Saint Mary's University Tom J. Brophy, Student Affairs and Services, Saint Mary's University Adam L. Daniels, Student Affairs and Services, Saint Mary's University In 2013, a public relations crisis led a mid-size university to reconsider the concept of student success on campus.
- keywords: academic; action; affairs; approach; best; campus; canada; canadian; change; college; committee; courses; data; development; different; education; example; experience; faculty; focus; graduation; high; identity; impact; information; institutional; journal; learning; management; new; number; orientation; pilot; plan; practices; president; program; public; research; retention; science; senior; services; social; strategic; student; student success; success; successful; support; survey; teams; theory; time; transition; universities; university; work; year
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- jcotr-3302
- author: Watson, Vaughn; Oviatt, Rae; Flennaugh, Terry; Byrd, Chauntel; Deloach, Regina; Jackson, Sarah ; Pugh, Jewel
- title: This Research that We are Doing is Just the Beginning of the Conversation”: Undergraduate Researchers Enacting Literacies of Relationality
- date: 2020-12-07
- words: 10.24926/jcotr.v27i2.3302
- flesch: We extend theoretical perspectives of critical listening and storying with undergraduate researchers of Color as they conducted a Youth Participatory Action Research inquiry. Undergraduate researchers designed, analyzed, and shared findings of their photovoice project examining their transition experiences to a PwI. We asked: what literacy activities do undergraduate researchers of Color enact during the photovoice project; and how are undergraduate researchers’ literacy activities shaping and, in turn, shaped by contexts of relationality? We conceptually frame our work as extending notions of quilting across African Diaspora women’s communities. We discuss how undergraduate co-researchers enact literacies of relationality while examining transition experiences of first-year students of Color. This stance-taking considers how educational communities including teachers, teacher educators, education researchers, and student affairs educators may meaningfully incorporate knowledge, perspectives, and questions of preservice teachers of Color, which are an integral part of transition experiences of undergraduate researchers and future teachers.
- summary: None
- keywords: action; activities; american; analysis; attention; black; campus; chauntel; college; college orientation; color; community; contexts; course; critical; data; education; educators; enacting; experiences; faculty; flint; home; inquiry; jewel; journal; learning; listening; literacies; literacy; lived; meanings; michigan; new; number; orientation; participants; participatory; people; perspectives; photographs; photovoice; project; pwi; questions; racial; rae; regina; relationality; research; research team; researchers; retention; sarah; school; service; sharing; social; space; state; storying; students; teachers; teaching; team; terry; time; transition; transition experiences; undergraduate; university; urban; vaughn; watson; white; women; work; year; youth; ypar
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- jcotr-3309
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3309
- date: 2020-12-07
- words: 1799
- flesch: 44
- summary: These findings drove larger recommendations centered around a third version of our Community Learning Model (CLM), where learning strategies are sequenced to maximize student learning. With a focus on student learning, we facilitated six assessment techniques focused on four key populations at our institution: residents, resident assistants, campus partners, and our department’s professional staff.
- keywords: assessment; assistants; campus; college; community; curriculum; experience; focus; foundations; learning; macalester; major; model; new; orientation; partners; pillar; plan; residential; student; transition; version; year
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- jcotr-3400
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3400
- date: 2021-04-14
- words: 1635
- flesch: 39
- summary: According to the authors… ..if you’re interested in making inroads to help college men see that there are other options beyond hegemonic masculinity, if you want to help men come together and be curious about their gender identity, if you want to help men navigate and problematize the way masculinity is socialized in the world, then this is exactly the book you may need. The chapter begins with a discussion of the historical intersections of gender, race, and identity for college men, giving special attention to the development of Black boys as well as sexual- and gender-minority men.
- keywords: authors; brian; campus; chapter; college; college men; daniel; davis; development; education; experiences; gender; groups; identity; learning; masculinities; masculinity; mcgowan; men; model; practices; programming; programs; sample; student; text; theoretical; theory; tillapaugh
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- jcotr-3540
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3540
- date: 2021-04-26
- words: 9207
- flesch: 52
- summary: Utilizing students’ voices can evolve alumni’s sense of belonging and community, while passing the information to future generations of bridge program students. By the end of the program participants identified as college students.
- keywords: able; academic; advisors; alexis; american; black; brandon; bridge; bridge program; campus; characteristics; college; college students; color; community; confidence; courses; data; degree; education; environment; experiences; fall; findings; friends; generation; graduation; help; high; higher; impact; income; information; institution; interactions; journal; knowledge; like; members; new; opportunity; organizational; orientation; participants; peers; practice; prior; program; relationships; research; retention; sablan; sbp; sbps; school; self; sense; skills; social; socialization; state; strayhorn; students; study; successful; summer; summer bridge; theory; time; transition; undergraduate; understanding; university; years
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- jcotr-3576
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3576
- date: 2022-11-30
- words: 3741
- flesch: 42
- summary: Most recently, Skobba et al. (2022) explored the housing pathways and resources of college students who were experiencing homelessness. The same provisions are not made for college students, however.
- keywords: atlantic; care; college; community; contact; district; education; experience; families; financial; focus; foster; group; hallett; higher; higher education; homeless; homelessness; housing; individual; information; journal; level; liaisons; mckinney; need; number; participants; research; resources; school; seeking; skobba; social; state; students; study; support; transition; vento; youth
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- jcotr-3587
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3587
- date: 2021-04-15
- words: 9241
- flesch: 38
- summary: These complexities raise the question of whether it is possible or desirable to fully analyze or predict student retention given the multitude of contradicting and confounding variables (Croft & Lozada, 2020). Considering the multitude of metrics (economic, social, and environmental) that tie to student retention and success, we find that the underlying processes and systems involved here are comparable to aspects of sustainability science and its application.
- keywords: academic; analysis; approach; attrition; bearable; behaviors; campus; case; change; characteristics; cohorts; college; college student; community; context; current; data; davis; economic; education; engagement; enrollment; environment; equitable; experiences; factors; fall; findings; focus; framework; group; higher; incoming; individual; information; institution; interactions; interventions; investment; involvement; journal; key; learning; measures; metrics; model; modeling; number; orientation; outcomes; performance; persistence; practice; pre; predictive; prime; proactive; programs; questions; real; research; responses; retention; retention behaviors; science; self; sense; services; social; specific; student; student retention; student success; student support; studies; study; success; support; support services; sustainability; theory; time; transition; tutoring; university; use; viable; workflows; year
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- jcotr-3594
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3594
- date: 2021-04-14
- words: 1491
- flesch: 49
- summary: THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION, TRANSITION, AND RETENTION1 FEATURED ARTICLE Opening Act: The Academic Library’s Role in Orientation Planning and Evaluation Zachary Lewis, University of Dayton Katy Kelly, University of Dayton This article describes a private, mid-sized university library’s experience of hosting a music festival-themed event in the library building as part of new student orientation, with program evaluation and student learning assessment at the forefront of planning. The authors and co-planners discuss four years of data to explore the connection between library outreach and students’ use of the library, their perceptions of the institution, and the role the event plays in shaping student success.
- keywords: academic; activities; affairs; article; campus; evaluation; event; experience; festival; future; goals; groups; library; music; new; orientation; planners; planning; program; staff; student; success; university; year
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- jcotr-3595
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3595
- date: 2021-10-26
- words: 1932
- flesch: 42
- summary: Writing center administrators must train tutors to come alongside students in their development as writers. This paper identifies issues facing writing center administrators that impact their ability to serve students effectively.
- keywords: academic; administrators; approach; campus; center; college; content; english; expectations; grammar; help; issues; journal; language; needs; orientation; retention; salem; science; sessions; students; support; training; transition; tutoring; tutors; use; writers; writing
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- jcotr-3597
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3597
- date: 2021-04-15
- words: 7659
- flesch: 46
- summary: The average college OA intensity for participants was 4.85 hours/week (SD = 5.80) and the average breadth of college OA involvement was 1.61 (of 5) categories of activities (SD = 1.71). This suggests that college OA involvement across the first semester of college is not significantly associated with depressive symptoms or negative affect at the end of the first semester, after adjusting for T1 levels. Optimism.
- keywords: academic; activities; activity; activity involvement; adjustment; adolescence; affect; american; analyses; benefits; bohnert; breadth; campus; college; college oa; college students; continuity; current; depressive; development; dimensions; discrepancy; distress; et al; gender; greater; health; high; higher; intensity; involvement; journal; levels; lower; negative; number; oa intensity; oa involvement; oas; optimism; organized; outcomes; participants; participation; positive; psychological; psychology; relation; research; residential; results; risk; school; semester; significant; social; status; students; studies; study; symptoms; time; transition; university; women; year; youth
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- jcotr-3607
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3607
- date: 2021-04-14
- words: 7383
- flesch: 32
- summary: During the same time period, much of the research informing institutional practices for college student retention began to reflect a broader individualistic societal values system, viewing students as independent, autonomous, self-reliant, and loosely coupled with their peers (Farber et al., 2020; Love, 2018). The conceptual framework for this meta-synthesis highlights some of the collective societal benefits of college student retention, signaling a shift from individual responsibility and benefit to collective responsibility and benefit (Lambert Snodgrass & Acheson-Clair, 2020).
- keywords: academic; admissions; braxton; campus; capital; collective; collectivist; college; college student; collegiate; commitment; communities; community; completion; contemporary; cultural; data; degree; development; diverse; doi; education; engagement; enrollment; environment; experience; faculty; financial; following; foundational; generation; groups; higher; higher education; human; identities; impact; individualistic; institution; integration; john; journal; learning; literature; mobility; models; national; new; number; orientation; paradigm; perspectives; practice; press; programs; qualities; rates; research; resources; responsibility; responsive; retention; retention theory; section; self; social; societal; society; spady; strategies; student; student retention; study; success; synthesis; systems; theories; theory; tinto; transition; u.s; unique; universities; university; values; white; year
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- jcotr-3608
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3608
- date: 2021-04-21
- words: 7092
- flesch: 51
- summary: Trends in student aid, 2013. Trends in student aid, 2014.
- keywords: academic; aid; average; award; better; college; completion; control; control group; counterparts; dynarski; early; education; eligible; enrollment; federal; figure; financial; freshmen; funding; gpas; grade; grant; group; higher; hope; impact; income; institutions; journal; likely; low; merit; need; number; outcomes; pell; percentage; persistence; points; policy; probability; program; progress; public; rate; recipients; requirements; research; retention; sap; scholarship; school; significant; state; step; students; study; term; time; treatment; tuition; university; unmet; year
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- jcotr-3640
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3640
- date: 2022-11-30
- words: 8051
- flesch: 48
- summary: Several studies have examined HMong parents role in their children’s education. Findings from this study support the need for increased community programming to enable HMong parents to better support their children’s education.
- keywords: academic; american; asian; beliefs; campus; children; college; communities; community; cultural; day; differences; doi; education; efficacy; encouragement; et al; event; experiences; families; family; fathers; formal; gloria; green; higher; hmong; hmong parents; hpd; increased; information; items; journal; knowledge; lee; mothers; number; orientation; parental; parents; personnel; post; preand; processes; programming; programs; questions; relationship; research; response; role; sample; scale; school; scores; self; siab; specific; states; students; studies; study; success; support; survey; team; thao; total; transition; undergraduates; united; university; values; volume; wisconsin; xiong
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- jcotr-3648
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3648
- date: 2021-10-26
- words: 1515
- flesch: 41
- summary: In Part 1, contributors present six frameworks comprising the third 2VOLUME 28 NUMBER 3 wave of student development theory: (a) critical race theory (CRT), (b) intersectionality, (c) critical feminist theories (FemCrit), (d) decolonizing/Indigenous theories, (e) queer theory, and (f ) crip theory. The practice discussions helped me understand later chapters where the frameworks are deployed to deconstruct and reconstruct seminal concepts from student development theory.
- keywords: affairs; authors; book; campus; chapter; college; critical; development; discussion; dissonance; experience; frameworks; involvement; orientation; otr; personal; practice; programs; rethinking; student; theories; theory; transition
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- jcotr-3701
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3701
- date: 2021-10-26
- words: 1941
- flesch: 39
- summary: The Taboo Identity: Worldview Diversity and Student Affairs While engaging in topics on religion and spirituality may be taboo, worldview diversity work is an essential next step in student affairs. The sections below will provide an overview of the book, highlighting the significance to the broader field of student affairs and to orientation, transition, and retention, specifically.
- keywords: affairs; book; campus; chapter; college; development; diversity; educators; engagement; helpful; identity; interfaith; justice; kathleen; orientation; practitioners; professional; programs; religion; religious; resources; social; staff; student; topics; transition; work; worldview
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- jcotr-3707
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3707
- date: 2021-10-26
- words: 1237
- flesch: 31
- summary: Kathy L. Guthrie and Vivechkanand S. Chunoo’s Changing the Narrative: Socially Just Leadership Education explores the evolving role of leadership education and development within U.S. higher education. Contributing authors discuss the importance of linking leadership education and social justice work and provide curricular and cocurricular examples to implement at different types of higher education institutions.
- keywords: book; capital; chapters; college; development; education; educators; experiences; groups; guthrie; higher; identity; institutions; journal; justice; leadership; learning; social; students; systems; u.s
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- jcotr-3713
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3713
- date: 2021-10-26
- words: 1227
- flesch: 37
- summary: The second chapter describes how learning disabilities, ADHD, and ASD may present in college students and how professionals can spot symptoms affecting students’ college experiences. THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION, TRANSITION, AND RETENTION1 BOOK REVIEW From Disability to Diversity: College Success for Students with Learning Disabilities, ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorder Written by: Lynne C. Shea, Linda Hecker, and Adam L. Lalor Published by: Columbia, SC: National Resource Center for The First- Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2019, 135 pages Reviewed by: Cassandra Kepple, Graduate Assistant, Florida State University From Disability to Diversity: College Success for Students with Learning Disabilities, ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorder (Lynne C. Shea, Linder Hecker, and Adam L. Lalor) seeks to de-emphasize earlier models of disability, encouraging faculty and staff in higher education to focus instead on the inclusion of learners with distinct needs.
- keywords: adhd; authors; book; college; differences; disabilities; disability; experiences; faculty; lds; learning; orientation; professionals; shea; staff; students; support; transition
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- jcotr-3722
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3722
- date: 2021-10-26
- words: 1397
- flesch: 45
- summary: The steps include the following: 1. determining whether focus group methodology will answer the research questions, 2. selecting focus group participants, 3. designing the moderator’s guide, 4. selecting and training focus group moderators, 5. conducting focus groups, and Further, the authors argue that facilitators can and should be compensated for their time, creating an additional burden on individuals interested in pursuing focus group research.
- keywords: addition; approach; assessment; authors; book; chapter; education; focus; groups; higher; institutional; method; methodology; odu; process; research; step; text; use; volume
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- jcotr-3732
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3732
- date: 2021-05-25
- words: 6773
- flesch: 44
- summary: Students at this institution take pride in their activist efforts; the campus culture is one where students use their agency to organize and voice their needs to the administration. Federal and local regulations require institutions to implement prevention activities related to these issues during orientation because of their impact on college students (Enough is enough, 2020).
- keywords: activities; alcohol; approach; campus; care; center; college; community; confident; content; covid-19; culture; data; development; discussion; drinking; education; engagement; engaging; equity; experience; flourishing; global; health; incoming; institution; journal; knowledge; learning; management; minded; needs; new; number; opportunities; orientation; pandemic; peers; plan; practices; programming; related; resources; respondents; roar; self; session; skills; strategies; stress; students; substance; support; table; time; topics; training; transition; university; university community; use; values; virtual; year
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- jcotr-3734
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3734
- date: 2021-05-25
- words: 6610
- flesch: 49
- summary: New student orientation (NSO) is a required activity for all first-year admits and is strongly recommended for transfer admits at every campus. We begin with some context about new student orientation at our university.
- keywords: academic; access; activities; advising; advisors; approach; campus; campuses; canvas; college; community; content; covid-19; critical; day; decisions; early; efforts; enrollment; experience; extended; flagship; importance; information; journal; leaders; multi; needs; new; new students; nso; offer; office; online; opportunities; orientation; pandemic; partners; person; plan; planning; process; program; programming; reservation; response; schedule; semester; staff; start; students; success; summer; support; systems; team; time; transition; undergraduate; university; virtual; virtual orientation; week; welcome; wide; work; working; year
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- jcotr-3739
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3739
- date: 2021-05-27
- words: 8738
- flesch: 50
- summary: This literature review uses the community of inquiry model as a framework to explore the research related to orientation and online learning and identify the principles, practices, and processes that can help student affairs professionals design an effective and engaging online orientation program or enhance an existing program. While 2020 saw explosive growth in online orientation programs, they are not entirely new.
- keywords: academic; access; activities; activity; ard; available; benson; cognitive; college; community; complete; completion; content; course; design; different; discussion; education; effective; effectiveness; et al; etherington; experience; factors; feedback; health; help; higher; images; important; incentive; increase; information; inquiry; institutions; instructor; jacklin; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; likely; long; mayer; means; model; modules; motivation; multimedia; new; number; online; online course; online learning; online orientation; orientation; orientation program; peer; person; personal; presence; problems; program; research; review; robinson; self; social; students; study; support; system; teaching; technology; text; time; training; transition; university; usability; use; video; year
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- jcotr-3750
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3750
- date: 2021-05-26
- words: 6105
- flesch: 49
- summary: Rather than everyone who plans student programs on campus navigating the challenges presented by COVID-19 on their own, we were able to band together and tackle these circumstances as a unified front. After a more in-depth review of the program’s history and background, this paper discusses three main challenges and corresponding solutions implemented for the 2020 cohort of new students.
- keywords: academic; campus; challenges; class; cohort; college; community; connections; covid-19; critical; day; days; decision; early; engagement; enrollment; events; experience; fall; families; group; high; host; immersion; incoming; increase; institution; instruction; journal; learning; lessons; local; long; needs; new; online; orientation; orientation program; pandemic; peer; person; planning; plans; possible; program; programming; registration; remote; resources; retention; return; semester; significant; social; spring; students; success; summer; term; time; transition; university; virtual; ways; week; working; year
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- jcotr-3755
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3755
- date: 2021-05-25
- words: 5657
- flesch: 39
- summary: The shift to virtual family orientation also provided significant space for innovation, the use of new technologies, and rethinking how and why we do what we do. Finally, through the development of virtual family orientation, we were forced to identify which information or connections must happen in real time and which can be on demand.
- keywords: a&m; alabama; campus; campuses; challenges; college; communication; community; concerns; content; courses; covid-19; decisions; education; engagement; events; expectations; experience; face; fall; families; family; family engagement; georgia; health; higher; impact; important; increased; information; institutions; learning; limited; members; need; new; number; offices; online; opportunities; orientation; pandemic; parent; person; professionals; programming; programs; questions; services; sessions; social; spring; staff; state; students; support; texas; time; transition; university; virtual; ways; work; year
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- jcotr-3756
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3756
- date: 2021-05-26
- words: 5553
- flesch: 50
- summary: Just like the Family Webinar Series, these were designed to address the needs of families, provide insight into student experiences in the virtual environment, and build a sense of community among FSU families in the state of Florida and beyond. Engagement Opportunities Small Groups and Ask the Experts Panel Undoubtedly, small student groups and the Ask the Experts panels were two of the most engaging sessions in the virtual orientation setting.
- keywords: academic; advising; ask; breakout; campus; chat; college; content; course; covid-19; engagement; essential; experience; families; family; florida; fsu; groups; ignite; incoming; information; labs; new; nsfp; number; ols; online; opportunities; opportunity; orientation; pandemic; partners; process; programming; programs; questions; registration; resources; role; room; series; session; small; staff; state; students; summer; support; team; time; transition; university; virtual; year; zoom
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- jcotr-3765
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3765
- date: 2021-05-26
- words: 6868
- flesch: 52
- summary: FYE and the PAL program created a First Six Weeks remote programming series for all FYE students to create opportunities for connection among FYE students, PALs, and faculty. FYE GPA Comparisons (end of term fall 2020) Note: Information obtained from student course records at the University of Colorado Denver.
- keywords: able; academic; activities; additional; advising; advisors; braxton; campus; canvas; cas; challenges; check; class; college; colorado; course; covid-19; day; days; denver; education; events; experience; faculty; fall; format; fye; hybrid; information; instructors; integration; learning; lesson; lsa; new; nso; office; online; opportunities; options; orientation; peer; person; plans; program; programming; registration; remote; resources; schlossberg; semester; sessions; setting; social; staff; stfe; strayhorn; students; success; summer; support; synchronous; team; time; training; transfer; transition; university; variety; video; virtual; week; year; zoom
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- jcotr-3766
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3766
- date: 2021-05-25
- words: 5527
- flesch: 46
- summary: The transition also allowed us to focus more intentionally on the individualized experience of students attending orientation programs. We identified a gap between orientation programs and the start of the semester, which our office used to continue engaging with incoming students before welcome week programming in the fall semester.
- keywords: academic; approach; campus; college; critical; day; elements; events; experience; family; future; guests; incoming; individualized; information; institution; june; leaders; live; meetings; members; model; modules; new; office; opportunity; orientation; pandemic; person; phase; practice; pre; process; professionals; program; programming; schedules; semester; sessions; specific; staff; students; summer; time; transition; university; virtual; work; year
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- jcotr-3768
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3768
- date: 2021-05-26
- words: 6987
- flesch: 46
- summary: When providing virtual experiences for students during the welcome experience, it is important to intentionally structure opportunities to meet and connect with other students in a meaningful way. This study employed machine learning methods to analyze and compare student responses to a Fall Welcome Survey in 2019 and 2020.
- keywords: academic; analysis; campus; college; community; connection; contact; covid-19; data; education; events; experience; factors; fall; fall welcome; good; high; higher; impact; important; influencer; information; institutions; journal; key; learning; level; likelihood; low; machine; major; medium; meet; model; new; number; opportunities; orientation; outcomes; overall; pandemic; participation; positive; power; programs; rate; responses; satisfaction; satisfied; sense; services; status; strong; students; study; support; survey; table; times; tool; transfer; transition; university; variables; virtual; welcome; welcome experience; year
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- jcotr-3769
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3769
- date: 2021-05-25
- words: 4283
- flesch: 41
- summary: In our approach to orientation programs, we do not assume a parallel or intend to minimize other sectors in which transitional justice and transformative practices are used. The Reimagination Process Without a doubt, COVID-19 was a disorienting dilemma and challenged us on long-held beliefs and tactics we employed to execute orientation programs.
- keywords: academic; advising; campus; college; covid-19; critical; davies; education; enrollment; experience; failures; fall; family; fee; houston; incoming; information; justice; learning; live; members; modules; new; orientation; pandemic; partners; person; plan; practices; pre; process; programming; programs; reflection; resource; schedule; session; spring; staff; students; summer; supplemental; synchronous; telling; transformative; transition; truth; university; virtual; work
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- jcotr-3832
- author: None
- title: jcotr-3832
- date: 2021-10-26
- words: 4496
- flesch: 48
- summary: The authors investigated the effect of course participation on student major declaration behaviors within the first college year. These influences should be considered holistically in exploratory advising, major exploration courses, and institutional assessments of student major declaration behavior.
- keywords: academic; career; certainty; change; college; course; credits; data; declaration; education; end; exploration; exploratory; exploratory students; factors; fys; gpa; high; higher; impact; influence; journal; kuh; major; major certainty; major declaration; model; number; orientation; practice; regression; research; results; retention; seminar; significant; students; study; support; transition; university; variable; year
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- jcotr-4022
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4022
- date: 2021-10-26
- words: 1701
- flesch: 38
- summary: In relying on phrasing such as “son or daughter” and “child,” the author assumes a gender binary while failing to acknowledge that many college students are independent with caregiving responsibilities for children or other family members. Bohnert concludes Section 3 with a discussion of the career center, where she outlines questions students should consider about what internship to pursue and strategies for finding internship opportunities.
- keywords: academic; advice; aspects; author; bohnert; book; campus; career; clubs; college; education; family; higher; incoming; language; life; members; orientation; overview; parents; questions; resources; roommates; section; services; students; text; topics; transition
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- jcotr-4037
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4037
- date: 2021-10-26
- words: 1619
- flesch: 41
- summary: College student veterans face unique challenges integrating into campus environments and completing their degrees. College student veterans face unique challenges integrating into campus environments and completing their degrees (Van Dusen, 2017).
- keywords: campus; college; education; health; higher; integration; journal; life; mental; mentorship; military; pave; peer; programs; social; student; student veterans; successful; support; transition; universities; university; veterans; work
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- jcotr-4445
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4445
- date: 2022-11-30
- words: 8505
- flesch: 45
- summary: It also warrants further investigation of any ways in which first-semester GPA supports and predicts persistence and graduation, especially for underrepresented populations such as African American college students. Further exploration of this topic is particularly salient as African American college student persistence to degree completion is significantly lower than that of White students (Gloria et al., 1999).
- keywords: academic; addition; african; african american; american; american students; campus; college; completion; course; data; difference; education; faculty; fall; female; gender; gershenfeld; gpa; gpas; graduation; groups; harper; higher; impact; institution; journal; learning; life; literature; male; number; orientation; participation; particular; peers; performance; persistence; populations; practices; rate; research; researchers; results; retention; second; semester; seminar; seminar course; significant; social; sophomore; students; studies; study; success; support; table; topics; transition; undergraduate; underrepresented; universities; university; variety; volume; white; year; year seminar
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- jcotr-4551
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4551
- date: 2022-11-30
- words: 7906
- flesch: 32
- summary: Graduate student orientation: Assessing need and methods of delivery. The findings indicate that graduate student orientation programs (GSOP) often address campus logistics and interpersonal belonging while less frequently focusing on programming for institutional belonging, academic acculturation, or adjustment for students’ supporters—common areas of focus for undergraduate orientation.
- keywords: academic; acculturation; address; adjustment; administrators; affairs; belonging; belongingness; campus; center; college; college orientation; common; community; departments; development; discussion; doctoral; education; environment; events; experience; faculty; family; findings; focus; graduate; graduate orientation; graduate students; gsop; higher; https://doi; individual; information; institutions; international; interpersonal; journal; key; level; logistics; members; miller; navigation; needs; new; number; online; orientation; orientation programs; outcome; participants; place; poock; population; practices; process; professionals; programmatic; programming; programs; research; researchers; resources; retention; sense; services; sessions; social; space; specific; student orientation; students; study; success; supporters; survey; systems; table; transition; undergraduate; universities; university; viajar; virtual; volume; welcome; year
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- jcotr-4629
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4629
- date: 2022-12-02
- words: 8340
- flesch: 43
- summary: Transfer partnerships also exist in multiple forms. At the same time, transfer partnerships do not necessarily produce equitable outcomes.
- keywords: advising; agreements; articulation; baccalaureate; bensimon; bragg; center; change; collective; college; color; community; community college; credit; crisp; critical; data; degree; designing; directions; education; equitable; equitable transfer; equity; et al; faculty; fink; focus; framework; higher; identifying; impact; implementing; inequities; institutions; jain; jenkins; journal; kania; kramer; laviolet; malcom; meza; needed; new; number; orientation; outcomes; partnerships; policies; practices; process; racial; research; resources; review; scorecard; shared; staff; students; support; taylor; theory; transfer; transfer partnerships; transfer students; transition; university; volume; wetzstein; wyner
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- jcotr-4636
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4636
- date: 2022-12-06
- words: 6491
- flesch: 51
- summary: VOLUME 29 NUMBER 2 1 F EAT U R E A RT I C L E I Am Because We Are: The Peer Mentorship Experiences of Black First-Year Master’s Students in Higher Education and Student Affairs Programs Jesse Ford, Assistant Professor of Higher Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Dwayne Hamilton, Jr., Graduate Assistant for Student Support, Outreach, and Assessment, Dean of Students Office, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Alexis Moore Alexis Moore, Student Success Coordinator, Greensboro College Jordan Farmer, Graduate Assistant in The Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Ashley Billie, Graduate Assistant for Civic Engagement, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Kameryn Taylor, Graduate Assistant for Your First Year Programming, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Despite the fact that more Black students than ever pursue graduate education, the experiences of Black graduate students in higher education and student affairs programs leave much to be discovered. Systemic racism is ingrained in American society, and as a result, the COVID-19 pandemic has also disproportionately affected the Black population (Poteat et al., 2020) and cannot be separated from the experiences of Black graduate students navigating COVID-19.
- keywords: able; academic; affairs; black; black graduate; black students; campus; class; cohort; college; color; community; covid-19; development; doctoral; education; environments; experiences; faculty; ford; graduate; graduate students; hesa; higher; higher education; imposter; journal; journey; learning; literature; master; members; mentoring; mentorship; new; number; orientation; peers; people; professional; programs; race; racial; relationships; research; scholarship; school; sense; spaces; student affairs; students; success; support; syndrome; transition; university; volume; women; work; year
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- jcotr-4639
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4639
- date: 2023-05-04
- words: 5466
- flesch: 42
- summary: Keywords – first-year seminars, Black students, transition Higher education constantly seeks new and innovative methods to engage and serve student populations. For example, Black students in educational settings confront a variety of difficulties due to their race.
- keywords: academic; administrators; advising; affairs; agency; appreciative; black; black students; campus; college; college students; courses; critical; development; distribution; education; engagement; experiences; faculty; ford; gardner; generation; generation college; groups; higher; higher education; identities; impact; institutions; journal; learning; new; number; organizations; orientation; people; practice; race; racial; racism; ray; research; resources; retention; schemas; seminars; social; student affairs; students; success; support; system; theory; transition; university; volume; white; year
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- jcotr-4647
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4647
- date: 2023-05-03
- words: 9315
- flesch: 51
- summary: SpringForward and STEP helped students clarify their values, goals, and aspirations, which are essential for sophomore student success (see Table 5). The sample included SpringForward students from the summer 2020 cohort who were also enrolled in STEP for the 2020-2021 academic year (n = 24).
- keywords: academic; anusha; building; campus; cohort; college; community; deshawn; development; education; engagement; experience; faculty; gahagan; generation; goals; grady; help; high; higher; hunter; identities; impact; important; initiative; journal; kelsey; kuh; learning; louis; major; needs; new; number; ohio; orientation; outcomes; participants; participation; people; personal; phillips; practices; program; programming; project; questions; relationships; research; retention; schaller; schreiner; second; second year; self; semester; sense; signature; skills; sophomore; springforward; staff; state; step; student success; students; study; success; summer; support; table; thriving; time; transition; university; virtual; volume; year; year students; young
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- jcotr-4655
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4655
- date: 2022-12-06
- words: 7906
- flesch: 41
- summary: Literature Review TINTO’S MODEL OF COLLEGE PERSISTENCE Tinto’s model (1975) has been the primary theory underlying the development of postsecondary retention strategies for almost 50 years, suggesting institutional academic and social integration as the primary predictors of student persistence (Seidman, 2005b). While the literature consistently demonstrated the importance of academic integration on student persistence, regardless of ethnicity or immigration status, social integration may not have the same amount of power in predicting intention to persist for all students (Kim, 2009).
- keywords: .01; .05; academic; academic integration; actual; american; analysis; associations; belonging; better; black; braxton; change; college; college persistence; college students; community; curvilinear; data; development; differences; different; education; effects; ethnic; family; groups; higher; hypothesis; immigrant; institutional; institutional academic; integration; intention; journal; latino; liem; linear; literature; minority; model; need; non; number; orientation; origin; outcomes; participants; persistence; populations; research; retention; scale; second; seidman; semester; sense; significant; social; social integration; strategies; students; studies; study; support; tauriac; testing; theory; time; transition; u.s.-origin; u.s.-white; university; volume; white; year
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- jcotr-4684
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4684
- date: 2022-12-08
- words: 7617
- flesch: 54
- summary: The paper concludes with recommendations for practitioners who are seeking to support transfer students facing academic difficulty. Keywords: transfer students, academic probation, retention Research on transfer student success has highlighted several resources that support students as they navigate the transfer process prior to matriculating to the four-year institution (Hayes et al., 2020; Packard & Jeffers, 2013).
- keywords: academic; academic probation; adjustment; advising; advisors; andrew; app; campus; case; challenges; class; classes; college; community; community college; courses; different; education; engineering; engineering transfer; esther; exams; experiences; factors; faculty; fall; findings; gehrke; hours; institution; journal; laanan; learning; msu; new; number; office; online; orientation; participants; peers; performance; prepared; probation; professors; research; resources; rico; role; sarah; semester; sense; shock; spring; struggle; students; study; support; time; transfer; transfer students; transition; university; volume; work; year
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- jcotr-4697
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4697
- date: 2023-05-03
- words: 7772
- flesch: 58
- summary: These current studies on college students were reviewed along with the effect of past traumatic events (e.g., natural disasters, child abuse, and sexual abuse) on young people. From the gathered review of the literature, this section has been divided into two main categories: how other traumatic events affected college students and current research on COVID-19’s effect on college students.
- keywords: academic; activities; challenges; classes; coding; college; college students; comments; covid-19; current; data; education; effects; et al; events; experiences; filho; findings; focused; following; friends; growth; health; high; hybrid; interview; journal; key; kind; learning; life; loss; major; mental; new; number; orientation; pandemic; participants; person; positive; post; questions; reflections; remote; research; responses; school; social; stress; students; studies; study; success; support; systems; themes; time; transition; traumatic; universities; university; volume; year; year college
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- jcotr-4804
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4804
- date: 2023-05-03
- words: 8051
- flesch: 42
- summary: Mahan (2017) also found that higher levels of self-efficacy were correlated with a return to good academic standing among college students placed on probation. An examination of college students’ problem- solving self-efficacy, academic self-efficacy, motivation, test performance, and expected grade in introductory-level economics courses.
- keywords: academic; academic motivation; academic outcomes; academic probation; academic self; academic standing; academic success; achievement; admissions; american; analysis; assessment; associated; autonomous; autonomy; canonical; cases; center; classified; college; critical; development; difficulty; discriminant; education; efficacy; equation; factors; fall; function; good; good academic; graduation; group; higher; higher education; impact; institutions; journal; learner; learner autonomy; learning; membership; motivation; national; number; orientation; outcomes; overall; performance; persistence; predictive; predictor; probation; programs; readiness; research; results; retention; risk; scale; school; self; semester; semester academic; significant; social; social support; standardized; standing; students; study; success; support; transition; university; variables; volume; year
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- jcotr-4819
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4819
- date: 2023-05-03
- words: 6564
- flesch: 57
- summary: This is likely because student success courses are typically seen as stand-alone courses, and thus understanding the impact of co-curricular student success courses is not considered. The first-year student seminar has been shown to be successful in improving student academic performance (Hyers & Joslin, 1998; Jamelske, 2009), retention (Hyers & Joslin, 1998; Jamelske, 2009; Naylor et al., 2018), and satisfaction (Hendel, 2007).
- keywords: academic; activities; analysis; attitudes; behaviors; campus; college; comparison; control; control group; course; curricular; design; education; experience; experience training; experimental; faculty; fall; final; grades; group; higher; impact; individual; items; journal; learning; management; mean; note; number; orientation; performance; positive; post; programming; research; results; section; semester; seminar; skills; staff; student success; students; study; success; table; time; training; transition; university; volume; winter; work; year; year experience; year students
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- jcotr-4834
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4834
- date: 2022-12-15
- words: 2345
- flesch: 44
- summary: Through the implementation of these two small, cost- effective interventions, institutions can increase student success and retention by helping students reduce stigma around seeking help, facilitating communication, and addressing problems before they become unmanageable. Creating an environment where students can experience challenges while also being supported is one way of sharing the burden of student success.
- keywords: academic; burden; campus; capital; college; education; encouraging; faculty; help; higher; institution; journal; learning; normalization; number; problem; program; resources; retention; schwartz; seeking; social; stigma; students; success; support
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- jcotr-4862
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4862
- date: 2022-05-20
- words: 1458
- flesch: 47
- summary: The aim of this book is to explain the various ways in which trans and gender non-conforming individuals face harassment or other inequities and how these experiences can be mitigated in further and higher education (FHE). The authors are clear advocates for the development of trans and gender non-conforming individuals within FHE.
- keywords: authors; binary; book; campus; community; conforming; education; fhe; higher; important; inclusion; individuals; institutions; non; people; research; staff; students; support; trans; transgender; university
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- jcotr-4864
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4864
- date: 2022-05-20
- words: 2413
- flesch: 38
- summary: From this point of view, the importance of structuring virtual learning communities lies in the experience provided by the use of ICT as a tool aimed at establishing, consolidating, and expanding communication networks and exchange and interaction among members. From this perspective, virtual learning communities must be developed as a systematized project that directly affect students and their achievements, supported VOLUME 28 NUMBER 4 5 and structured to strengthen academic performance and, ultimately, graduation.
- keywords: academic; classroom; communication; communities; community; development; devices; dialogic; educational; group; ict; information; interaction; knowledge; learning; members; model; new; pedagogical; pedagogy; people; performance; practice; process; project; proposal; social; students; teacher; teaching; time; training; use; virtual; vlc; work
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- jcotr-4865
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4865
- date: 2022-05-20
- words: 1437
- flesch: 50
- summary: Chapter 1 opens with 11 short scenarios and messages that women engaging in campus leadership may encounter, from being nonverbally told they are the ones who need to take notes in a group project meeting to being told to smile more by a stranger. We are the Leaders We’ve Been Waiting for: Women and Leadership Development in College Authored by: Julie E. Owen Published by: Stylus Publishing, 2020, 236 pages Reviewed by: Brittany Devies We are the Leaders We’ve Been Waiting for: Women and Leadership Development in College is the book I have been waiting for since I was an undergraduate woman learning leadership on a college campus.
- keywords: action; book; campuses; chapter; college; course; critical; development; experiences; gender; identity; leadership; literature; owen; student; teaching; theory; women
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- jcotr-4866
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4866
- date: 2022-05-20
- words: 1467
- flesch: 38
- summary: Critical information about LGBTQ+ student experiences in the classroom and interaction with faculty and staff is also provided. Published: National Research Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2020, 99 pages Reviewed by: Amy Haggard, Associate Director of Alumni and Student Engagement, Division of Undergraduate Studies, Florida State University “Now what?
- keywords: areas; book; campus; classroom; college; education; experience; higher; inclusive; institutions; kilgo; lgbtq+; orientation; population; practice; professionals; questions; students; success; tools; transition
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- jcotr-4867
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4867
- date: 2022-05-20
- words: 1600
- flesch: 41
- summary: In creating and implementing programs designed to facilitate student success, OTR administrators should highlight the tangible opportunities for students, especially those from marginalized backgrounds, including students of color and first-generation students. This text should serve as an example to OTR students and professionals of how powerful and long-lasting the relationship-building aspects are in this field.
- keywords: book; career; college; county; education; edward; hicks; journey; leadership; mentorship; opportunities; personal; prince; professional; program; relationships; role; school; story; students; success; university; virginia
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- jcotr-4868
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4868
- date: 2022-05-20
- words: 2035
- flesch: 34
- summary: To discontinue the current structure in student affairs and achieve consistent work-life integration for all levels of staff, mid-level managers and SSAOs must identify behaviors that THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION, TRANSITION, AND RETENTION4 contribute to the cycle of harmful ideal worker norms and reevaluate the standards of professionalism that allowed them to advance in their own careers. The second concept, ideal worker norms, serves as the book’s central focus.
- keywords: affairs; balance; book; careers; cycle; expectations; field; graduate; ideal; ideal worker; individual; integration; level; life; mid; norms; personal; practitioners; professionals; responsibilities; socialization; ssaos; staff; student; supervisors; sustainable; time; worker; workplace
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- jcotr-4869
- author: None
- title: jcotr-4869
- date: 2022-11-30
- words: 1623
- flesch: 37
- summary: In College Belonging: How First- Year and First-Generation Students Navigate Campus Life, Lisa M. Nunn (2021) delves into what it means for college students “to belong.” Nunn identifies three unique aspects of belonging for college students through her interviews: social belonging, campus-community belonging, and academic belonging.
- keywords: affairs; aspects; belonging; campus; college; community; contexts; different; experience; generation; institutional; life; new; nunn; orientation; research; sense; students; transition; university; white; work; year
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- jcotr-4870
- author: Murillo, Marco A.; Worrell, Frank C.
- title: College Week: Preparing First-Generation Students for the Transition to Postsecondary Education
- date: 2022-05-24
- words: 1897
- flesch: 50
- summary: A reoccurring concern was whether they would be able to articulate responses during class discussions at a level that was expected from college students: “One thing that was challenging to me was that when questions were being asked in class, I felt nervous to answer because I didn’t feel like it was the way that college students answer questions.” For many students, time management involved developing their organizational skills.
- keywords: academic; addition; american; campus; class; classes; college; education; experience; high; learning; navigational; need; preparation; program; readiness; research; responses; school; skills; students; time; transition; university; week
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- jcotr-4871
- author: Parsons, Alan M.; Ash, Allison N.
- title: National Guard Service Members in Higher Education: A Continuous Transition
- date: 2022-05-24
- words: 8202
- flesch: 42
- summary: For current and supplementary support programs to successfully navigate the complex experience of military-affiliated students, including NG students, it is THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION, TRANSITION, AND RETENTION6 crucial to recognize student transitions from a theoretical lens. Findings suggested that NG students experience unique challenges compared to other military- affiliated students, although the difficulties presented do not outweigh their overall academic success.
- keywords: academic; active; age; anderson; army; asset; campus; challenges; characteristics; civilian; college; combat; culture; data; differences; different; drill; education; et al; example; experience; findings; goodman; gregg; guard; health; higher; individual; influence; institutions; interview; journal; life; like; members; mental; military; military service; military students; model; molina; morse; national; need; ng service; ng students; number; office; orientation; overall; participants; peers; positive; process; qualitative; researcher; schlossberg; school; service; specific; stress; student veterans; students; study; success; support; time; training; transition; understanding; unique; universities; veterans; volume; year
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- jcotr-4872
- author: Roney, Linda N.; Johnson, Iris ; Ligas, Mark
- title: Capturing the Moment: Using Digital Imagery to Welcome First-Year Students
- date: 2022-05-24
- words: 1651
- flesch: 46
- summary: Depression, anxiety, loneliness are peaking in college students. College student commitment and outdoor orientation programming.
- keywords: academic; app; campus; class; college; community; edi; experience; fairfield; health; imagery; images; incoming; institution; journal; members; mymoments; new; number; onboarding; orientation; pandemic; reflection; school; social; students; transition; university; year
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- jcotr-4873
- author: Tygret, Jennifer; Green, Pat ; Mendez, Sylvia ; Lane, Hannah
- title: Promoting Faculty-Student Relationships: Building Connections with First-Year College Students
- date: 2022-05-24
- words: 1631
- flesch: 46
- summary: When this information is taken to heart and known strategies or tools that benefit students are implemented, faculty promote positive faculty–student relationships and support student needs. The depth and authenticity of the “I wish my teacher knew” student responses were remarkable, considering students completed the activity on the first day of class.
- keywords: academic; activity; class; classroom; college; colorado; course; education; faculty; health; higher; impact; learning; mental; needs; personal; positive; professor; relationships; responses; social; students; teacher
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- jcotr-4874
- author: Williams, Jennifer; Williams, Sarah; Bunn, Ellen ; Gray, Alysha
- title: Essential Elements of Programs Supporting Students with Executive Functioning Challenges
- date: 2022-05-24
- words: 5441
- flesch: 42
- summary: For example, some programs used different labels (e.g., mentor, coach) or different staffing (graduate students, staff members) to provide very similar elements of student support. This paper identifies essential elements, common across each program, that have been necessary to make a positive difference for a wide variety of college students.
- keywords: academic; access; act; building; campus; campuses; carolina; center; challenges; college; college students; commitment; common; community; differences; different; disabilities; disability; education; efcs; elements; executive; expectations; experience; functioning; help; helpful; high; important; journal; key; learning; need; newman; number; orientation; participants; person; point; postsecondary; program; recruitment; resources; routines; school; self; setting; skills; specific; star; strategies; students; study; support; time; transition; tutoring; university; volume; years
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- jcotr-4900
- author: Manuel, Elizabeth; Ceballos, Marjorie; Gordon, William
- title: Parents’ Perceptions of Involvement in Their Students’ First Year in College
- date: 2023-05-04
- words: 4708
- flesch: 42
- summary: Helicopter parents: An examination of the correlates of over-parenting of college students. Parental engagement and contact in the academic lives of college students.
- keywords: .01; .05; american; anticipated; appropriate; characteristics; child; college; development; differences; education; ethnicity; expected; family; generation; harper; helicopter; higher; hispanic; institutions; instrument; involvement; items; journal; kiyama; latino; level; lipps; orientation; parental; parental involvement; parents; participants; perceptions; personal; research; residence; results; retention; significant; students; study; support; survey; transition; university; white; year
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- jcotr-4904
- author: Morris, Phillip; Castro-Faix, Moraima ; Hengtgen, Kristen ; Rapp, Kelly ; Winkler, Christa ; Xu, Tonghui
- title: Virtues of Academic Exploration: : Impact of Major Changes on Degree Completion
- date: 2023-05-04
- words: 7238
- flesch: 51
- summary: For example, missing from the academic major change literature is an in-depth look at specific populations, such as international students, transfer students, and community college students, and their experiences with changing majors. This connection may be found through academic programming linked to student majors.
- keywords: academic; academic major; advising; age; american; analytic; attainment; bachelor; black; career; center; change; choice; college; college students; completion; courses; coursework; data; decision; degree; degree attainment; education; et al; ethnicity; experiences; exploration; family; gender; generation; graduation; higher; immediate; impact; institutions; interest; journal; literature; major; model; national; number; odds; orientation; persistence; postsecondary; public; race; rates; remedial; research; retention; sample; sciences; significant; state; statistics; status; stem; students; study; support; switching; table; time; transition; university; values; variable; volume; white; year
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- jcotr-4952
- author: Mixson-Brookshire, Deborah; Goldfine, Ruth; Brookshire, Donald
- title: The Student Recreation Center: Underutilized Resource for Improving Student Retention
- date: 2023-05-04
- words: 2052
- flesch: 43
- summary: The findings of this study echo those of previously published research, and the proffered strategies derived from our findings provide practical approaches for maximizing the positive impact of student recreation centers on retention through relatively inexpensive means. These positive consequences, which can be realized through student participation in all varieties of co-curricular events such as plays, musical THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION, TRANSITION, AND RETENTION2 performances, club or intramural sports, speakers, and so forth (Bergen-Cico & Viscomi, 2012; Burke, 2019; Jorgenson et al., 2018; Mars, 2022), ultimately lay the foundation for student retention by fostering an overall sense of well-being.
- keywords: academic; activities; campus; center; college; data; facilities; findings; impact; institution; journal; note; programming; rate; recreation; research; retention; semester; strategies; students; time; time students; usage; use; week; year
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- jcotr-4964
- author: Swanson, Hallie; Swider, Alexis
- title: I’ll Stand by You: One Woman’s Mission to Heal the Children of the World
- date: 2022-06-01
- words: 1898
- flesch: 57
- summary: Finally, deans of students and offices of student life are charged with making sure all students, regardless of race, ethnicity, class, and background, are supported and have a fulfilling time at the institution. True selflessness on this nature is not often displayed, so students can learn from and embrace how Montanti chooses to live her life.
- keywords: book; children; college; death; different; experience; global; haupt; health; help; home; kenan; life; lives; mental; montanti; new; privilege; struggles; students; themes; war; ways; woman; world
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- jcotr-4965
- author: Pacheco, Derrick Raphael
- title: Understanding the Latinx Experience: Developmental and Contextual Influences
- date: 2022-06-01
- words: 1561
- flesch: 31
- summary: The volume is centered around the historical and current representation of Latinx individuals in the United States, the intersection of Latinx identity with other THE JOURNAL OF COLLEGE ORIENTATION, TRANSITION, AND RETENTION2 identities these individuals may hold, and how we can support Latinx students through practices and research. Specifically, the authors describe the borderlands where critical moments of dissonance and decision-making lie, which aid Latinx students in developing a committed Latino identity.
- keywords: authors; better; book; college; development; education; experiences; higher; identity; individuals; influences; latinx; model; orientation; otr; professionals; students; support; transition; volume
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- jcotr-4966
- author: LeBlanc, Julie
- title: Contested Issues in Troubled Times: Student Affairs Dialogues on Equity, Civility, and Safety
- date: 2022-06-01
- words: 1165
- flesch: 30
- summary: Part 3 (Cultivating Professional Capacities to Foster Inclusive Learning Environments) is ideal for graduate students preparing for careers in student affairs. Peter Magolda, Marcia Baxter Magolda, and Rozana Carducci’s edited work Contested Issues in Troubled Times: Student Affairs Dialogues on Equity, Civility, and Safety is a manifesto, a call to action, and a guidebook for student affairs educators working toward inclusion on their campuses.
- keywords: affairs; book; campuses; civility; dialogue; educators; environments; equity; inclusion; inclusive; issues; learning; magolda; orientation; professionals; readers; retention; safety; student; transition
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- jcotr-5117
- author: Mastrogiovanni, Jason
- title: Introduction and Call to Action
- date: 2022-12-13
- words: 1175
- flesch: 45
- summary: Next, Ford, Hamilton, Moore, Farmer, Billie, and Taylor present narratives of their experiences as Black graduate students in higher education and student affairs programs to highlight the need for supportive spaces and peer mentorship in graduate preparation programs. Increasingly, faculty researchers from all disciplines in higher education are finding JCOTR to be a valid and desirable place to publish work regarding their interventions and inquiries with college students.
- keywords: academic; affairs; articles; campus; college; community; editor; education; higher; jcotr; journal; new; noda; note; orientation; practice; practitioner; programs; readers; student; transition; work; year
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- jcotr-5248
- author: Henning, Holly
- title: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
- date: 2023-05-04
- words: 1581
- flesch: 56
- summary: O K R E V I E W How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Author: Mohsin Hamid Published by: New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2013, 235 pages Reviewed by: Holly N. Henning, M.A., MBA, Graduate Research Assistant, Florida State University Searching for an acceptable common reader on college campuses is no easy task, and anyone who has ever served on a selection committee understands the challenges of picking an effective option. Moreover, Hamid’s ability to draw the reader in from the first pages and keep the reader tuned in to the very last page show the beauty of his narrative storytelling and appeal to greater audiences, a major advantage given that most common readers are meant for large numbers of people and diverse scholarly communities.
- keywords: asia; book; character; college; common; courses; education; filthy; filthy rich; hamid; help; life; love; main; novel; protagonist; reader; rich; self; story; students; wealth; work
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- jcotr-5478
- author: Mastrogiovanni, Jason
- title: The Voice of the Journal
- date: 2023-05-04
- words: 1177
- flesch: 52
- summary: They offer potential engagement strategies for encouraging new students to discover their center. As I adjust to a new context, I find myself reflecting on my values and how to articulate my voice at a new institution for the maximum benefit of students.
- keywords: academic; articles; authors; context; curricular; institutional; issue; journal; new; pre; profession; programs; retention; students; study; success; support; term; transition; voice; year
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