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Do I Belong? What Students Teach Us About Belonging To A New University, Jennifer Ann Scaia
Do I Belong? What Students Teach Us About Belonging To A New University, Jennifer Ann Scaia
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Foundational to this evaluation study, the participating institution aspired to improve its retention rate. Students’ perceived sense of belonging has been identified as an important variable related to student retention and persistence (Bean & Eaton, 2000; Strayhorn 2012; Strayhorn 2019; Tinto, 2017). For students to succeed beyond their first year in college, it is fundamentally important that they view themselves as valued members of the university community (Bean & Eaton, 2000; Bollen & Hoyle, 1990; Murphy, 2016).
The purpose of this study was to evaluate how undergraduate students, predicted as less likely to retain into their second year, described their …