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Relationship As Pedagogy: Empowering Faculty To Support Student Mental Health, Katie Breitigan
Relationship As Pedagogy: Empowering Faculty To Support Student Mental Health, Katie Breitigan
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
This study sought to explore the impact of college student mental health on faculty pedagogy. Using a grounded theory qualitative research methodology, the researcher interviewed 13 faculty participants about their experience of college student mental health in the classroom. A review of the literature on theological anthropology, trauma, and Christian higher education provided a framework for the findings of this study to be discussed. Findings revealed four main themes influencing faculty pedagogy which included: the value of relationships for promoting student well-being; lowered engagement by students experiencing mental health challenges; the increased need for mental health-related accommodations; and the impact …
Under God: Political Views And Experiences Among Young Adults Attending An Evangelical College, Olga Dietlin, Amy Sparks, Hannah Bayne
Under God: Political Views And Experiences Among Young Adults Attending An Evangelical College, Olga Dietlin, Amy Sparks, Hannah Bayne
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
While polarization has increased the saliency of political values, political meaning-making has been scarcely addressed in higher education literature and training. Additionally, even though the political orientation of evangelicals has been back in the spotlight since the 2016 presidential campaign, little research has been done to explore the interplay of faith commitments and political values among students at an evangelical college. This study examined religiosity, ideology, political attitudes, the salience of political identity, and experience with political differences among students at an evangelical Christian liberal arts institution (n = 223). Descriptive data confirmed the salience of religious belief and practice …
The Lived Religious Experience Of Black Students At A Southeastern Cccu Institution, Harold Goss
The Lived Religious Experience Of Black Students At A Southeastern Cccu Institution, Harold Goss
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
The overall purpose of this qualitative study was to better understand the religious experiences of Black students at a Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU) institution. The researcher interviewed 22 participants at a private Christian university and analyzed the data using in vivo coding, constant comparison, and thematic analysis. Findings suggest formal religious activities that are required and presumed by the institution to be nurturing can have the opposite effect for some Black students at the institution. The researcher identified three major themes regarding how Black students perceive and experience religious activity. The themes provide helpful insight regarding participants’ …
The Agile College: How Institutions Successfully Navigate Demographic Changes, Andrew J. Cornelius
The Agile College: How Institutions Successfully Navigate Demographic Changes, Andrew J. Cornelius
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
Andrew J. Cornelius reviews The Agile College: How Institutions Successfully Navigate Demographic Changes by Nathan D. Grawe, published by John Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Cultivating The Self-Awareness Of Global Students: The Role Of Communities Of Practice, Stephanie Calley
Cultivating The Self-Awareness Of Global Students: The Role Of Communities Of Practice, Stephanie Calley
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
Research on the impact of leadership education programs on undergraduate students has demonstrated that cultivating self-awareness is foundational to developing other leadership capabilities. Yet, scant research has been undertaken to understand the impact of leadership education on global students. For the sake of this research, global students include any undergraduate student who had spent a significant portion of their development years outside the country of higher education. As such, global students include international students as well as other globally mobile students such as children of international military personnel, businesspeople, and religious workers. This qualitative research sought to understand how global …
Embodied: Transgender Identities, The Church, And What The Bible Has To Say, Kaleigh Richardson
Embodied: Transgender Identities, The Church, And What The Bible Has To Say, Kaleigh Richardson
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
Kaleigh Richardson reviews Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say by Preston Sprinkle, published by David C. Cook, 2021.
Growth: 22 (2023)
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
The full issue of the twenty-second edition of Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development.
Pursuing Campus Collaboration That Works: Assessing The Impact Of Relational Leadership And Work Engagement On Relational Coordination Between Student Affairs And Academic Affairs In Christian Higher Education, Mark Muha
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
Collaboration between student affairs and academic affairs departments has long been a focus of organizational development but is inconsistent at best. This quantitative study of student affairs professionals (n = 256) within the Christian higher education context examined the role that experience of relational leadership and a worker’s level of work engagement have on a student affairs professional’s experience of relational coordination with the academic affairs departments within their organization. The study used three validated surveys and subsequent regression analysis to measure relational leadership, work engagement, and relational coordination to identify the predictive relationship between the variables as well …
Exploring White Racial Identity Development Within Christian Colleges, Glen Kinoshita
Exploring White Racial Identity Development Within Christian Colleges, Glen Kinoshita
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
Racial identity development is a growth process in which many college students engage as they regularly interact with peers and instructors from diverse backgrounds. As compositional diversity, as well as diversity of thought, lags at Christian colleges, the purpose of this qualitative, narrative study was to understand how White students who have undergone significant progress in their racial identity development, describe their process while attending predominantly White, evangelical, Christian colleges. Three participants from three Christian colleges/universities were interviewed, a total of nine, White student participants. One college was located in the Pacific Northwest and two colleges were located in Southern …
Purpose And Autonomous Functioning In College Students, Michelle Steffenhagen
Purpose And Autonomous Functioning In College Students, Michelle Steffenhagen
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
This study sought to understand the relationship between a sense of purpose and autonomous functioning in college students. Further, the results were compared with the independent variables of gender, volunteerism, and faith community participation. Participants (n = 356) were undergraduate college students at a small private liberal arts Christian institution located in the Midwest of the United States of America. Measures included the Claremont Purpose Scale and the Index of Autonomous Functioning. Pearson correlations were used to analyze the data, and purpose and autonomous functioning were positively correlated. Women reported higher levels of a sense of purpose and autonomous functioning. …
Advising And Supporting College Students Experiencing Imposter Syndrome: A Christian Perspective, Jeannine Kranzow
Advising And Supporting College Students Experiencing Imposter Syndrome: A Christian Perspective, Jeannine Kranzow
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
For Christian student affairs educators, it is essential that the methods of advising and supporting students be in line with biblical directives for a whole and holy life. This paper will examine approaches for advising and supporting students experiencing imposter syndrome. Current research on impostor syndrome is presented as well as a discussion of ways that Christian insight can provide additional guidance and awareness for supporting struggling students. By connecting both biblical wisdom and the current scholarship, a Christian perspective of impostor syndrome, anchored in a discussion on spiritual warfare, is offered. Using this perspective, recommendations for practice are identified.
Algorithms Of Opporession: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Jazmin Dantzler
Algorithms Of Opporession: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Jazmin Dantzler
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
Jazmin "JD" Dantzler reviews Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Stafiya Umoja Noble, published by NYU Press, 2018.
Growth: 21 (2022) Full Issue
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
The full issue of the twenty-first edition of Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development.
Ambitious And Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed And Struggle In American Higher Education, Sara Vander Bie
Ambitious And Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed And Struggle In American Higher Education, Sara Vander Bie
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
Sara Vander Bie reviews Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education by Yingyi Ma, published by Columbia University Press, 2020.
Finding Jesus In The Storm: The Spiritual Lives Of Christians With Mental Health Challenges, Jeffrey Tabone
Finding Jesus In The Storm: The Spiritual Lives Of Christians With Mental Health Challenges, Jeffrey Tabone
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
Jeffrey Tabone reviews Finding Jesus in the Storm: The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges by John Swinton, published by Eerdmans, 2020.
Nature Rx: Improving College-Student Mental Health, Christina Brandsma
Nature Rx: Improving College-Student Mental Health, Christina Brandsma
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
Christina Brandsma reviews Nature Rx: Improving College-Student Mental Health by Donald A. Rakow and Gregory T. Eells, published by Cornell University Press, 2019.
Living Life Together: A Qualatative Study Of Taylor University's Lifestyle Covenant, Jana Roste
Living Life Together: A Qualatative Study Of Taylor University's Lifestyle Covenant, Jana Roste
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
Taylor University, a small, Christian, liberal arts institution in the Midwest, utilizes a lifestyle covenant which outlines expectations for campus life to promote character development and fulfill the university’s mission. In pursuit of exploring community members’ perceptions of the Life Together Covenant (LTC), the larger qualitative study, consisting of individual interviews with ten senior students, ten staff members, and ten faculty members, found that participants generally perceived the LTC as a guide or set of expectations to live cohesively at Taylor. This article focuses on the student findings and analyses. Students generally perceive and experience the LTC in a legalistic …
Growth No. 20 (2021) - Full Issue
Growth No. 20 (2021) - Full Issue
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
The full issue of the twentieth edition of Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development.
Multiculturalism In Higher Education: Increasing Access And Improving Equity In The 21st Century, Crystal M. Cartwright
Multiculturalism In Higher Education: Increasing Access And Improving Equity In The 21st Century, Crystal M. Cartwright
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
No abstract provided.
Developing Multicultural Competence In Undergraduate Student Leaders Through A Civil Rights Bus Tour, Kevin J. Villegas, Catherine Lombardozzi
Developing Multicultural Competence In Undergraduate Student Leaders Through A Civil Rights Bus Tour, Kevin J. Villegas, Catherine Lombardozzi
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
This qualitative study provides insight on the impact of an intensive civil rights bus tour on the multicultural competence development of undergraduate student leaders. Specifically, this phenomenological inquiry explored the lived experiences of four individuals who participated in a civil rights bus tour as undergraduate student leaders. Through interpretive phenomenological analysis, several themes emerged that have bearing on the development of multicultural competence in undergraduate student leaders. The results of this study conclude that the multicultural competence of the undergraduate student leaders who participated in the tour developed in significant ways. Ideally, this study informs the work of student affairs …
The Experiences Of Lgbtq+ Christians In A Support Group And Implications For Practitioners, Christian Heasley, Stacy A. Jacob
The Experiences Of Lgbtq+ Christians In A Support Group And Implications For Practitioners, Christian Heasley, Stacy A. Jacob
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
LGBTQ+ students attending Christian colleges and universities represent a unique intersection of sexual and spiritual identity. There is a dearth of literature regarding LGBTQ+ students at Christian institutions. Research is difficult to undertake because of the challenge of recruiting participants who may not feel comfortable or even safe identifying as LGBTQ+, even in an anonymous study. This qualitative study specifically studies LGBTQ+ students who are members of a school-sanctioned LGBTQ+ support groups at a Council for Christian College and Universities (CCCU) institution. Participants involved in such a group responded to an interview discussing their faith development, their sexual identity development, …
When The Church Comes To Campus: Christian Convictions And The Challenge Toward Authentic Membership In The Secular Academy, Henrique G. Alvim
When The Church Comes To Campus: Christian Convictions And The Challenge Toward Authentic Membership In The Secular Academy, Henrique G. Alvim
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
This article argues for a certain kind of pluralism in the context of the secular university that would afford Christians the opportunity to more intentionally bring their religious convictions and resources to their lived experiences and academic pursuits. It points to possibilities in what pertains to the place of believers while also reminding the Church of what it ought to be in these shared educational spaces: a community of worship, not of domination. As both the university and the Church rethink ways in which to respectfully engage with one another, thus taking faith commitments more seriously, collaboration among all members …
Authoring An Undivided Self: Predictors Of Self-Authorship Among First-Year Students Attending Christian Universities, Rachel Abouras
Authoring An Undivided Self: Predictors Of Self-Authorship Among First-Year Students Attending Christian Universities, Rachel Abouras
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
Ample research suggests that self-authorship may serve an important role in helping students develop as whole people. Therefore, the time is ripe for Christian student affairs professionals to further investigate the construct of self-authorship, specifically how it may be shaped in the college context. To that end, the purpose of this study was to identify key factors that influence self-authorship among a sample of first-year students attending a Christian university (N=428). Drawing on the work of Kegan (1994) and Baxter Magolda (2001), this study utilized hierarchical multiple regression analysis to examine the relationship between self-authorship and a set of predictor …
Why We're Polarized, Serena Draper
Why We're Polarized, Serena Draper
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
No abstract provided.
Presumed Incompetent Ii: Race, Class Power, And Resistance Of Women In Academia, Dannemart Pierre
Presumed Incompetent Ii: Race, Class Power, And Resistance Of Women In Academia, Dannemart Pierre
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
No abstract provided.
The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack On Due Process At America's Universities, Britney N. Graber
The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack On Due Process At America's Universities, Britney N. Graber
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
No abstract provided.
Teaching About Race And Racism In The College Classroom: Notes From A White Professor, Jeffrey Tabone
Teaching About Race And Racism In The College Classroom: Notes From A White Professor, Jeffrey Tabone
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
No abstract provided.
In The Business Of Learning: Faithful Consumerism, Jessica Martin
In The Business Of Learning: Faithful Consumerism, Jessica Martin
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
The landscape of higher education is rapidly evolving. The amenities arms race is in full swing as institutions vie for student attention, choice, and dollars. The very competition that wins institutions their best and brightest, and affords institutional survival, bolsters a consumer mindset amongst students that undermines the learner-centered values institutions exist to espouse. Current cultural and societal norms, along with the actions of institutions themselves—treating students as customers—have unsurprisingly left students and higher education professionals facing a new challenge: determining how to helpfully engage consumer-minded students to help them become better learners. This paper explores one approach—utilizing the language …
Wendell Berry And Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues Of Place, Ben Goller
Wendell Berry And Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues Of Place, Ben Goller
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
No abstract provided.
The Leadership Stories Of Students Of Color At Predominantly White Christian Institutions, Sharia Hays
The Leadership Stories Of Students Of Color At Predominantly White Christian Institutions, Sharia Hays
Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
Leadership has been identified as an important component of higher education and the college student experience (Dugan, 2006; Komives, Dugan, & Owen, 2011; Shertzer & Schuh, 2004; St. John, Rowley, & Hu, 2009). Although there has been an in-crease in leadership initiatives across higher education, many institutions, specifically dominantly White Christian institutions have struggled to find ways to involve students of color in leadership. Utilizing a phenomenological approach, this study explored the leadership experiences of 11 students of color from 3 dominantly White Christian institutions (DWI). This article will provide a broad overview of the study while focusing on how …