College Student Journal back issues from June 2005:
Building an alumni support community: tracking alumni for program evaluation and added value.
Jun 01, 2005; ... This paper is a report of the development of a systematic process for locating instructional design alumni and recruiting them to provide feedback from their workplaces. The purpose of initiating this process is related to program improvement through alumni participation. The process for ...
Student awareness of educational requirements for desired careers and the utility of a careers in psychology course.
Jun 01, 2005; ... In the last twenty years colleges have begun to emphasize the importance of career training in undergraduate programs. The current investigation addressed three questions related to this movement. First, are college students, in general, aware of the educational requirements of their ...
College persistence and student attitudes toward financial success.
Jun 01, 2005; ... This study found that students who highly valued financial success were less likely to continue at the same institution from their first to their second year of college and were more likely to drop out of college than students who valued financial success less. This finding supports the ...
Moral development in fraternity members: a case study.
Jun 01, 2005; ... Research on the effects of Greek life on college student moral development has generally concluded that membership in these organizations does little to enhance moral development. However, this qualitative case study of one fraternity found otherwise. A fraternity at a large Midwestern ...
A study of experienced special education teachers' perceptions of adminstrative support.
Jun 01, 2005; ... The purpose of this study is to describe the level of administrator support perceived by special education teachers in South Texas. The literature on teacher retention indicates that "lack of administrative support" as an important reason for leaving the profession. This study examined the ...
The Goetz plan: a practical smoking cessation program for college students.
Jun 01, 2005; ... Smoking is a serious health concern in today's society. College students represent a large portion of the smoking public and could have a unique opportunity to quit smoking with a college smoking cessation program. One idea for a smoking cessation program is to offer a ...
College students' perceptions about career fairs: what they like, what they gain, and what they want to see.
Jun 01, 2005; ... College instructors use a variety of strategies to increase the likelihood that their students will find jobs. Career fairs are just one strategy designed to help students think more clearly about their career paths. It has traditionally been assumed that students will benefit from ...
The rhetoric of mock trial debate: using logos, pathos and ethos in undergraduate competition.
Jun 01, 2005; ... While engaging in learning about roles of evidence, rules of procedure and case law, undergraduate mock trial students must also learn how to effectively communicate their evidence to the fact-finder. In mock trial, as in real courtroom trials in the United States legal system, ...
Personal and social contributors to dropout risk for undergraduate students.
Jun 01, 2005; ... The purpose of the present study was to examine how personal characteristics (e.g., loneliness, interpersonal competence) and social characteristics (e.g., marginality) contributed to dropout risk among undergraduate students. The respondents (n=127 undergraduates) completed a ...
A comparison between African-American and White students enrolled in an equal opportunity program on predominantly White college campuses: perceptions of the campus environment.
Jun 01, 2005; ... This article compares the campus environmental perceptions of African-American and White students enrolled in an equal opportunity program on predominantly White campuses. These are students who are trying to overcome socioeconomic and academic challenges in their quest to become college ...
Assessing the knowledge base of faculty at a private, four-year institution.
Jun 01, 2005; ... The following study evaluated the knowledge, experience and attitudes, that faculty at a private four-year institution have towards students with disabilities. The 208 participants responded to a survey questionnaire. The findings of the study indicated that many of the faculty had little ...
A comparative study of performance on a college student newspaper: foreign versus American students.
Jun 01, 2005; ... This study attempts to make a qualitative comparison between the contributions to a student newspaper made by foreign students and American students as well as make some analytical assessments as to the focus and world view brought to bear on the writings in the student paper. As such ...
The financial knowledge of college freshmen.
Jun 01, 2005; ... The problem of the study was to determine college freshmen's financial knowledge. The entire freshman English 101, College Reading and Writing class at Texas A&M University--Commerce was surveyed. There were a total of 407 students enrolled in these classes. There were 20 multiple choice ...
Stress, race and substance use in college.
Jun 01, 2005; ... This study investigates the role of stress in the substance use behavior of black and white college students. We examine the issue across race and look both at measures of traumatic stress and life stress. A perusal of the research literature reveals that the relationship between traumatic ...
Exploring the use of first name to address faculty members in graduate programs.
Jun 01, 2005; ... Twenty-six graduate psychology students at 2 Midwestern public universities used a self-report questionnaire for an exploratory study to rate interactions with faculty based on mode of address. When students addressed faculty by first name. they rated faculty as more approachable and ...
Sexual attitudes of college students: the impact of religiosity and spirituality.
Jun 01, 2005; ... Factors such as religiosity and spirituality were examined to determine their impact on the sexual attitudes of college students. The sample consisted of 330 undergraduate students from a southeastern doctoral research institution. It was hypothesized that higher scores of religiosity ...
An exploration of the factors that affect the academic success of college sophomores.
Jun 01, 2005; ... Researchers have suggested that, although they have not received much attention in the research literature, college sophomores may face academic difficulties. Pattengale and Schriener (2000) said that the sophomore year may be a time in which students disengage from academic life, thus ...
Preparation for the real business world: empirical research in the MBA finance curriculum.
Jun 01, 2005; ... The majority of MBA students receive little exposure to formal empirical research even though research and development spending at corporations around the world continues to increase. We believe that in order to be successful managers, MBA graduates need to understand the empirical ...
Perceptions of international students toward GRE.(Graduate Record Examination)
Jun 01, 2005; ... Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is an aptitude test thought to reflect intelligence or the capacity to learn and is used by colleges for admission of students into graduate school. No matter bow well written, no test can measure all aspects of intelligence, and this makes GRE inherently ...