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Erin J. Reifsteck; Michael A. Hemphill; Shelby N. Anderson; DeAnne Davis Brooks – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2025
Identifying physical activity promoting opportunities within the university setting offers a promising avenue to enhance student veterans' transition to a healthy civilian lifestyle. Using an asset-based, mixed-method approach that included surveys and focus groups with students and interviews with university stakeholders, we characterize the…
Descriptors: Veterans Education, Physical Activity Level, College Readiness, Student Adjustment
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Michael Anthony Goodman; Antonio Duran; Adam M. McCready – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2025
Given interest in understanding how fraternities inform students' capacities for leadership, the purpose of this critical quantitative study was to investigate the precollege characteristics and higher education experiences influencing orientation toward political and social involvement among college fraternity men. Results demonstrated…
Descriptors: Fraternities, Males, College Students, Political Attitudes
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Elizabeth J. Allan; Kimberly Stewart; David Kerschner – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2025
This investigation explored the concept and practice of organizational commitment to hazing prevention in higher education. Using Bolman and Deal's four frames we analyzed qualitative data from written materials and interviews with 16 campus professionals at eight U.S. universities. Findings revealed structural, human resource, political, and…
Descriptors: College Role, Hazing, Prevention, College Administration
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Antonique Flood – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2025
Despite incorporating diversity coursework into most higher education and student affairs (HESA) graduate programs, HESA graduate students report feeling underprepared to enact social justice work. Current pedagogical approaches introduce students to foundational concepts but fail to develop reflective, justice conscious administrators. This…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Student Personnel Workers, Consciousness Raising
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Patrick Filipe Conway – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2025
This phenomenological study explores the challenges 21 formerly incarcerated students identified as barriers to maintaining positive student experiences while enrolled in a college-in-prison program. Employing a thriving framework, the study identified several key challenges, including lack of study space, friction with prison staff, limited…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, College Programs
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Matthew J. Smith; Katherine H. Burr; Laura A. Dean – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2025
Informed by Kolb's experiential learning theory and Baxter Magolda's holistic theory of student development, this qualitative study explores the experiences of graduate students in a supervised internship. From an analysis of written assignments completed during the internship experience, our findings reveal abundant meaning-making opportunities…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Internship Programs, Individual Development
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Z. W. Taylor; Tristia Kayser; Jodi Kaus; Sara Ray; Mario Villa; Karla Weber-Wandel; Phil Schuman – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2025
This study involved 54 peer financial mentors from seven institutions to explore their challenges when working with mentees. Challenges included: mentees presented financial concerns that exceeded the mentors' ability, mentors frequently lacked the financial knowledge to provide highquality peer financial mentoring, and the shift in programming…
Descriptors: College Students, Mentors, Peer Relationship, Financial Education
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Alyssa Stefanese Yates – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
There are over 2.7 million student-mothers pursuing associate and bachelor's degrees in the US higher education system. Although student-mothers' enrollment continues to grow, they report being misunderstood and underserved in higher education. In response, I offer a modification to Marcia Baxter Magolda's self-authorship entitled,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mothers, Self Concept, Student Personnel Services
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MaryBeth Walpole; Felicia Crockett; Sa-Rawla Stoute – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
College student suicide is increasing but little research addresses it. We examine student-housing-staff responses to student suicide using meaning making, trauma theory, and trauma-informed counseling. The phenomenological study included 11 participants who experienced student suicide on campus. Student staff experienced trauma, guilt, and…
Descriptors: Suicide, College Students, Resident Advisers, Trauma Informed Approach
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Katherine M. Bender; Kendel M. E. Jester – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
Since 2010, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among college students have increased. Student affairs (SA) practitioners may not have received sufficient training to handle issues regarding student suicidality. Results of a survey of SA professionals across the United States assessing their knowledge, opinions, and actions taken around student…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Knowledge Level, Attitudes, Behavior
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Chad N. Loes; Brian P. An – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
The authors examined the influence of study-abroad participation on the cognitive development of students across 17 institutions. Even after adjusting for several important potential confounding influences such as student precollege characteristics, college academic and nonacademic experiences, study-abroad intent, and a pretest measure for each…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Ashley C. Helle; Cassandra L. Boness; Joan Masters; Kenneth J. Sher – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
Given the prevalence of alcohol and cannabis co-use among college students, prevention for co-use is crucial. We examined hypothetical receptiveness to substance-specific interventions among students who reported co-use. Students who use alcohol and cannabis were more receptive to alcohol interventions than cannabis interventions. Campus…
Descriptors: Drinking, Marijuana, College Students, Intervention
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Hermen Díaz; Amy B. Wilson; Laura Brown – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
Using a constructivist paradigm, this qualitative study investigated the impact of social identities on how professionalism is learned, practiced, and challenged by new professionals in student affairs. Collaborators in this study included 25 recent graduates of a student affairs professional preparation program. Findings suggest race, gender,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Social Influences, Professionalism, Student Personnel Workers
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Sharon Lamb; Lindsey White; Madeline Brodt – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
Humane Acts Bystander Intervention Training curriculum (HABIT) aims to reach students less inclined to learn from liberal and more-feminist education offered in current curricula. Using moral foundations theory to encourage bystander intervention in potential sexual assault situations, the authors taught and assessed 137 diverse students within an…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Audiences, Intervention, Student Behavior
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Dian Squire; Christina W. Yao; Keni Zenner – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
Despite persistent calls to support international students on campuses, there is little research about the attitudes that higher education professionals, in particular academic advisors, hold about international students. Through a neo-racism framework, we found multiple neo-racist attitudes that have the potential to negatively impact academic…
Descriptors: Racism, Academic Advising, Faculty Advisers, Cultural Awareness
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