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Who Belongs In Honors? Culturally Responsive Advising And Transformative Diversity, Elizabeth Raisanen

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters

Despite a rich body of scholarship that engages with university honors advising, advising to support diversity in higher education, and the overall need for better attention to diversity within honors, the literature has not fully explored the vital role that advising plays in supporting diversity and fostering belonging within honors programs and colleges. This essay brings together the too-often disparate threads of advising, honors, and diversity to advocate for a practice of culturally responsive advising within the honors environment in order to pursue truly transformative diversity. Holistic academic advising and related programming must play a central role in any honors …

Advising The Online Student: A Breakout Of Advising Frequency, Preferences, And Satisfaction Of Online Students, Maeghen Macdonald, Brittani Wyskocil Garcia

University Administration Publications

This breakout study reviews the findings of a 2017 study of Penn State University's World Campus undergraduate online students. The study surveyed students to report demographic, academic, preferences, and satisfaction information and sought to develop relationships between these variables by their levels of academic success. This breakout study focuses on the findings related to three of the study's variables: academic advising frequency, interaction preference, and satisfaction of undergraduate online students.

Facilitating Master's Student Success: A Quantitative Examination Of Student Perspectives On Advising, Sarah Brooks Drummond Hays

Dissertations and Theses

Faculty advising is crucial for student success, but little is known about the specific relationship between advising and master's students' success. Given that master's student enrollment is growing and diversifying, examining the relationships between advising and success is imperative for institutional efficiency and educational excellence. This quantitative study investigated nearly 1,000 master's students' experiences with two primary types of advising--administrative and mentoring. The study looked for correlations with multiple proxies of student success (e.g., graduation, retention, institutional commitment, and GPA). As well, other potentially influential individual, educational, and organizational variables (e.g., background characteristics, peer culture, and department climate) were examined …

The Role Of College Counseling In Increasing College Access For Black Students: A Case Study Of An Effective College Counseling Program, Ricky Shabazz

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this case study was to learn more about the role of the college center, the college counselor, and college peer counselors in creating a college-going culture among Black students.

Cognitive Techniques As A Means For Facilitating Supervisee Development, Aaron Kindsvatter, Darcy Haag Granello, Dr. Jill D. Duba

Counseling & Student Affairs Faculty Publications

During periods of uncertainty or psychological distress, a supervisee may encounter or develop rigid or unhelpful thinking patterns that could delay development by promoting discouraging realities and experiences. Such cognitive experiences often are so subtle that they occur outside the supervisee's immediate awareness. This article explores how the cognitive model of counseling could be used in supervision as a guide to help the supervisor and supervisee discover and modity negative thought processes.

Cultivating Alliances With Other Helping Professionals: Interprofessional Training With The Curriculum, Dr. Jill D. Duba, Susan B. Paez

Counseling & Student Affairs Faculty Publications

Counselor educations are called to provide some kind of interprofessional training so that students are better equipped at working with other helping professionals on various client cases. This article provides several other reasons why interprofessional training is relevant in counselor education. In addition, several interprofessional training strategies are addressed.

The Evaluation Procedures Of Counselor Trainees: A Summary Of Literature, Dr. Jill D. Duba

Counseling & Student Affairs Faculty Publications

This article presents a summary of the literature regarding the procedures used to evaluate counselor education students. Justification for evaluations and evaluation criteria including multicultural considerations are presented. In addition, a summary of evalution procedures being used in counselor education programs are addressed. Finally, areas of further research and implications for training and supervision are noted.

Relational Database For The Master Of Arts In Education Instructional Technology Program, Keith Anthony Castillo

Theses Digitization Project

This project was created to develop a database for students and teachers to allow accurate, efficient and reliable tracking of student's academic information. The database was designed specifically for faculty and students within the Master of Arts in Education, Instructional Technology Program at California State University, San Bernardino.

Student Ambassador Program: Meeting A Need In Higher Education, Carla Jean Gay

Theses Digitization Project

The student ambassador program is designed as a solution for meeting the needs and demands of a changing population of incoming and current students.

Examining The Needs For Student Services Of Adult Learners In Continuing Higher Education, Roberto Barragan Jr.

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The primary purpose of this study was to examine the availability and quality of student services offered to adult learners in selected continuing education programs in Dade County, Florida.

The two basic research questions addressed in this study were:

1) What are the student services being provided to adult learners by the selected colleges and universities?

2) What is the quality of these services being provided as perceived by administrators and adult learners at their institutions?

Two groups comprised the population for this study. One group sample of adult learners enrolled in credit courses being offered by the continuing education …

A Proposed Study Of The Affect Of Group Counseling Upon Students On Academic Probation At The University Of Louisville., Morrison L. Cooke

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Group-Guidance Activities Together With Their Relationship To The Over-All Guidance Program In Twelve Larger California Public Junior Colleges, Reuel L. Fick

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.