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Thriving In College: The Contribution Of Career Services To Student Success, Jodi M. Chowen
Thriving In College: The Contribution Of Career Services To Student Success, Jodi M. Chowen
Theses and Dissertations
Career services in higher education has a long history of supporting student development and post-graduation success (American Council on Education, 1937; Rayman, 1999; Dey & Cruzvergara, 2014). However, there is a dearth of research identifying specific connections between engagement with career services and student success. College student thriving has been established in previous studies as positively contributing to traditional measures of college student success, including intention to persist, grade point average, institutional fit and satisfaction, and self-reported learning gains (Schreiner, 2013). Examining the relationship of student experience with career services and thriving provides a new way to evaluate the contribution …
Triggering Relationships That Contextualize The Pathway For Student Success, Darin R. Eckton
Triggering Relationships That Contextualize The Pathway For Student Success, Darin R. Eckton
Theses and Dissertations
America invests large amounts of money in K-12 education to develop its human capital. As such, K-12 student success is vital to the human capital development and future of America's children and adolescents. There is significant concern for the K-12 students who are predictably at risk of not graduating from high school (e.g., low-income, ethnic minority, and first generation college students) let alone qualifying for and enrolling in postsecondary education. Over the past four decades student success has primarily been explained by sociological research on status attainment as well as social capital and cultural capital. However, very little research addresses …