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How Universities Use Twitter To Communicate About Mental Health, Sarah Elizabeth Polhill
How Universities Use Twitter To Communicate About Mental Health, Sarah Elizabeth Polhill
Theses and Dissertations
From a sample of over three million tweets from universities in the US, we described the characteristics of universities' communication about mental health on Twitter, including common keywords, bigrams, linked resources, and hashtags, as well as the frequency of dialogic communication and mental health tweets over time, especially in the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. This study uses data mining to collect tweets from official university Twitter accounts and selected accounts of university wellness and counseling programs. Relevant tweets were collected from a large sample using keywords and bigrams relevant to mental health from the Twitter accounts of IACS accredited …
Improving Student Success In A Large-Enrollment Introductory Accounting Course, Melissa P. Larson
Improving Student Success In A Large-Enrollment Introductory Accounting Course, Melissa P. Larson
Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation follows a three-article format presentation. The topic addresses improving student success in a large enrollment introductory accounting course. The first article is a literature review of pre-class activities within a flipped classroom setting in higher education. The review of 34 articles identified as relevant to the literature review explored what the literature tells us about pre-class learning activities and synthesized what instructors can do to design pre-class activities that encourage students' preparation for class. The review showed the importance of pre-class learning in a flipped classroom and that more research is needed to better understand students' behaviors and …
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 …