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Carlton Goode; Jarvis Marlow-McCowin – About Campus, 2024
One heavily discussed and researched group throughout the literature on student engagement is Men of Color. Co-curricular efforts supporting this population are highlighted in the literature about Men of Color achievement (Brooms,2018); however, little is known about the impact of student affairs-led curricular experiences designed to center the…
Descriptors: Males, Ethnic Groups, Undergraduate Students, School Holding Power
Lauritsen, Jessica; Favela Naca, Elena; Gilgen, Rebecca; Lui, Ivan; Vargas-Essex, Julio – About Campus, 2023
Student persistence remains an important focus for higher education professionals. National conferences and other professional development opportunities regularly highlight information on resources, supports, and programmatic efforts that are most effective at helping college students persist. Retention is a key performance indicator for…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, College Enrollment
Machado, Jessica; Courneya, Jocelyn; Idrees, Afrah; Morsillo, Rebecca; Richards, Nordia; Panitch, Melanie; Wehbi, Samantha – About Campus, 2023
Along with a host of higher education institutions (HEI), Ryerson University has championed social innovation in its programming for the past several years, culminating in the development of the Office of Social Innovation (OSI). They define social innovation as the practice of using creative and collaborative approaches to challenge historical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Innovation
Heath, Jenna; Dagri, Erika – About Campus, 2022
Peer mentoring programs have repeatedly shown that peer-to-peer support is a vital part of the transition process for new college students. Sometimes, what a student needs most in those imperative years is someone who can identify with them and provide the advice needed to get them to the finish line. In August 2019, the University of Nevada, Las…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Mentors, Pilot Projects, Learner Engagement
Rohn, Kathy Chau; Arnold, Karen D.; Martini, Lily – About Campus, 2022
Student affairs practitioners, faculty, and researchers rely heavily on surveys to assess elements of students' college experience such as student satisfaction and cocurricular participation. The ubiquitous student survey has serious drawbacks for informing institutional improvement, however, given typically low response rates and systematic…
Descriptors: Student Journals, Student Evaluation, Intervention, Student Personnel Services
Chi, Do Na – About Campus, 2021
At higher education institutions in Vietnam, Academic Writing is a required course for English-major students, which they may take in several semesters. Academic Writing becomes a core course in tertiary curriculum due to its importance and popularity. Teaching students how to write is not easy. Taking the students' challenges in producing good…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing (Composition), Academic Language, Writing Instruction
Preuss, Lydia; Vaughan, Terry, III – About Campus, 2019
The Arnold Mitchem Fellows Program (AMF) is a co-curricular, undergraduate research program where first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students learn about basic research skills in preparation for future undergraduate research opportunities and graduate school outside of their traditional for credit classes. This academic year-long…
Descriptors: Fellowships, First Generation College Students, Undergraduate Students, Low Income Students
Cardone, Taran – About Campus, 2018
Taran Cardone suggests the concept of design thinking as an approach to personal learning design and the customization of the college experience. Such customization is good for student learning, Cardone reminds us, because connecting educational experiences to previous knowledge and experiences, as well as interests and goals, encourages deep…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Thinking Skills, Program Implementation, Individual Development
Okello, Wilson Kwamogi; Pérez, David, II – About Campus, 2018
Wilson Kwamogi Okello and David Pérez II highlight Christian's story from their study of 100 Latino undergraduate men at 20 selective universities. Christian's experiences as an apparently successful student exemplify the double-edged nature of Latino men's challenges in higher education. Okello and Pérez apply the concept of public and hidden…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Males, Undergraduate Students, Minority Group Students
Cardone, Taran; Turton, Elizabeth Stoll; Olson, Gerald; Magolda, Marcia Baxter – About Campus, 2013
Committed to improving how their various programs serve student learning, Taran Cardone, Elizabeth Stoll Turton, Gerald Olson, and Marcia Baxter Magolda describe how their participation in Miami University's Community of Practice on Engaged Learning (COPEL) helped them create developmentally appropriate, learning-centered approaches that support…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Participation, Program Descriptions, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Garrett, Christopher E. – About Campus, 2013
Christopher E. Garrett describes a faculty learning community program at Oklahoma City University that focused on improving teaching and learning through integrating the arts in a variety of disciplines, some of which may surprise you. (Contains 9 notes.)
Descriptors: Art Education, Integrated Curriculum, College Curriculum, Learner Engagement
Sriram, Rishi; Scales, T. Laine; Oster, Meghan – About Campus, 2011
Perhaps a decade ago, accreditation agencies might have been satisfied with a list of student learning outcomes and some evidence that students achieved them. More and more, accreditors request evidence of "improvement". It is not enough to merely demonstrate that what one is doing works reasonably well; one must also show that he or she…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Curriculum Development, Program Improvement, Program Effectiveness
Thornton, Courtney H.; Tarrant, Michael T.; Williams, Leah S. – About Campus, 2009
Cocurricular events are capable of providing rich learning opportunities for students. However, as the film and speaker sequence described in this article demonstrates, all too often they fail to reach their potential. In order to teach lessons and enhance skills related to civic responsibility, these events must be designed with a purposeful…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Citizenship Responsibility, Educational Opportunities, Extracurricular Activities
Mueller, Alan C. R. – About Campus, 2009
Several years ago, the author taught a course called First-Year experience. A student named Sean mentioned that he played "water pong." Sean, a high-achieving student who was also a member of the lacrosse team, explained that water pong was a game with the rules of beer pong, using water rather than beer. Sean volunteered an explanation of his…
Descriptors: College Students, Athletes, Student Behavior, Psychological Patterns