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The Effects Of Consumerism On Access To Higher Education, Cornell F. Woodson
The Effects Of Consumerism On Access To Higher Education, Cornell F. Woodson
The Vermont Connection
The consistent rise in tuition continues to prevent underprivileged groups from accessing higher education. Institutional leaders are charged with finding creative ways to cut costs while still maintaining a high quality academic experience. This article presents the argument that consumerism is an unaddressed cause of the high price tag needed to operate America’s institutions and offers a definition of consumerism as it relates to the higher education industry. Statistical data is presented to illustrate the domino effect that happens as a result of the various methods in which institutions cater to the materialistic ways of today’s consumers.
Transcending Monosexism: Breaking Cycles And A Call For Nonmonosexual Liberation, Christine V. Dolan
Transcending Monosexism: Breaking Cycles And A Call For Nonmonosexual Liberation, Christine V. Dolan
The Vermont Connection
Students who are attracted to more than one gender, referred to as nonmonosexual students, face many barriers in synthesizing their sexual orientation identities (Weinberg, Williams, & Pryor, 1994). Monosexism, a form of oppression that promotes exclusive heterosexual, lesbian, or gay behaviors as the only legitimate concepts of sexual orientation, inhibits the thriving of nonmonosexual students and fogs true understanding of nonmonosexuality (Rust, 2000a). Through the intentional study, discussion, understanding, and inclusion of non- monosexual experiences, student affairs professionals can better support these students’ development and growth in college and as they develop throughout their lifetimes.
Race Religion: Exploring The Intersections Of Race And Religion And The Implications For Student Affairs Practitioners, Sara Lilien Blair
Race Religion: Exploring The Intersections Of Race And Religion And The Implications For Student Affairs Practitioners, Sara Lilien Blair
The Vermont Connection
As student affairs professionals it is axiomatic that social identity plays a significant role in the lives of students. In college, many students enter the most intense stages of their developing social identities and, within the profession, we provide space for students to discuss and explore. However, this willingness to discuss seems to end where students’ religious identities begin. As a result, students with a faith-based identity explore their non-religious identity to the exclusion of their religious identity. The following article explores the interdependence of racial and religious identities and the importance of welcoming that duality into student affairs discussions. …
Hope As A Potential Transformative Power, Marlenee Lizeth Blas Pedreal
Hope As A Potential Transformative Power, Marlenee Lizeth Blas Pedreal
The Vermont Connection
What is hope? In an effort to break cycles and transform higher education, I propose that we, student affairs professionals, engage in the practice of hope. Drawing from the work of thinkers like Gustavo Esteva (2003), Paulo Freire (1974), and Vaclav Havel (1991), this reflective essay proposes a hope that is impact-conscious of societal expectations. First, I will define hope and explore the inherent expectations. Next, I will suggest a hope that is humble, moving, and alive. From this intervention, I will call for the regeneration of our relations, understanding, and practices of hope as they relate to educational practice. …
Redefining Lives: Post-Secondary Education For Currently And Formerly Incarcerated Individuals, Erin-Kate Escobar, Tamia Rashia Jordan, Emery A. Lohrasbi
Redefining Lives: Post-Secondary Education For Currently And Formerly Incarcerated Individuals, Erin-Kate Escobar, Tamia Rashia Jordan, Emery A. Lohrasbi
The Vermont Connection
This article provides student affairs professionals with an overview of the post-secondary education (PSE) for currently and formerly incarcerated individuals. We review their post secondary education entry points as well as challenges to their access and matriculation. Finally, we offer implications for how student affairs professionals may support the experiences of currently and formerly incarcerated individuals.
New Member After College: A Scholarly Personal Narrative On Non-Traditional Membership In College Fraternities, Benjamin Z. Huelskamp
New Member After College: A Scholarly Personal Narrative On Non-Traditional Membership In College Fraternities, Benjamin Z. Huelskamp
The Vermont Connection
While the majority of fraternity and sorority members join during their undergraduate years, some join after receiving their first degree. Nontraditional membership has not been examined or discussed in scholarly literature even though non-traditional members often have a significant impact on undergraduate members as Greek life advisors, chapter advisors, student affairs professionals, and faculty members. This article examines one man’s experience with fraternity and sorority life and the influence of non-traditional members on fraternity and sorority members.
Career Services As A Bridge To International Student Acculturation And Success, Jing Luo
Career Services As A Bridge To International Student Acculturation And Success, Jing Luo
The Vermont Connection
The recruitment of international students is a current trend in United States postsecondary institutional development. How to support international students as best as possible is highly related to the retention of international students. This article will explore how career services offices help international students better integrate academically and culturally. Additionally, this paper will discuss career services’ impact on the retention of international students and institutional long-term development.
Jewish American Students: Looking Back To Move Forward, Barbara Perlman
Jewish American Students: Looking Back To Move Forward, Barbara Perlman
The Vermont Connection
As Jewish students enter college campuses in large numbers, it is crucial that student affairs educators understand their history as a means of best serving this population and combating anti-Semitism. In realizing the dualistic nature of Judaism as a religion and ethnicity, this paper examines the history of anti-Semitism experienced by Jewish American both abroad and nationally, particularly in institutions of higher learning. Additionally, anti-Semitism and Jewish life on campuses today is discussed as a means of assessing institutional support.
Tidbits And Tangents: A Guide To Become The Shoulders On Which You Stand, Nathan Victoria
Tidbits And Tangents: A Guide To Become The Shoulders On Which You Stand, Nathan Victoria
The Vermont Connection
No abstract provided.
The Final Word, Dorian L. Mccoy
Editor's Note, Julienne R. Oberts
The Impostor Phenomenon: Overcoming Internalized Barriers And Recognizing Achievements, Queena Hoang
The Impostor Phenomenon: Overcoming Internalized Barriers And Recognizing Achievements, Queena Hoang
The Vermont Connection
The “impostor phenomenon” is the crippling feeling of self-doubt, intellectual inadequacy, and anticipated failure that haunts people who attribute their success to luck or help from others rather than their own abilities (Nelson, 2011). These feelings, often undetected by others, manifest as anxiety, self-deprecation, or an irrational fear of failure in light of previous success (Bernard, Dollinger, & Ramaniah, 2002; Langford & Clance, 1993; Leary, Patton, Orlando, & Frank, 2000). Clance and Imes (1978) first discovered this psychological experience while studying high-achieving female college students and professionals and thus coined the term impostor phenomenon (IP). This article will explore the …
Expanding Our Understanding Of Nontraditional Students: Family Privilege And Its Affect On College Students, Julienne R. Oberts
Expanding Our Understanding Of Nontraditional Students: Family Privilege And Its Affect On College Students, Julienne R. Oberts
The Vermont Connection
This article reviews current literature on the topic of nontraditional students. Additional materials related to social capital in the forms of family involvement and parental support are also reviewed to illustrate their relation to the present understanding of the experiences of nontraditional students in higher education. The current definition of what it means to be nontraditional is not sufficient, and an argument for the inclusion of considerations of family privilege is presented.
Pedagogy Of The Oppressed, The Musical? Using Theatrical Scholartistry To Transform Teaching And Learning, Dirk Jonathan Rodrick
Pedagogy Of The Oppressed, The Musical? Using Theatrical Scholartistry To Transform Teaching And Learning, Dirk Jonathan Rodrick
The Vermont Connection
Every classroom is a performance space (Pineau, 1994). The relations of power inherent to every classroom must be dismantled to transform pedagogy and make learning mutually liberatory for both teacher and student (Freire, 1996). Using Friere’s (1996) Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a theoretical foundation, this article presents ScholARTistry as a medium to (re)imagine teaching and learning. Simply put, ScholARTistry is a hybrid practice that combines tools used by the literary, visual, and/or performing arts with tools used by educators and other social scientists to explore the human condition (Cahnmann, 2006). First, Freire’s (1996) contributions to emancipatory scholarship and educational …
Removing The Mask: Using Masculine Identity Development In Student Conduct, Mathew J.L. Shepard
Removing The Mask: Using Masculine Identity Development In Student Conduct, Mathew J.L. Shepard
The Vermont Connection
Research showing men’s overrepresentation in student conduct processes (Harper, Harris, & Mmeje, 2005) provides relevance for using masculine identity theory in student conduct administration. By connecting literature regarding student conduct with that of masculinity in college men, specifically focusing on Edwards and Jones’s (2009) grounded theory, implications for student conduct administrators to better support students are suggested.
Kenneth P. Saurman Award: Standing At The Intersection: Comfort, Complacency And Curiosity, Jiliene M. Johnson
Kenneth P. Saurman Award: Standing At The Intersection: Comfort, Complacency And Curiosity, Jiliene M. Johnson
The Vermont Connection
No abstract provided.