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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"academic support services"”.
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Beyond Academics: Challenging Issues Facing Community College Non-Academic Support Services
… current and emerging community college non-academic support service issues. These auxiliary services, not unlike academic or student affairs, support the community college mission and vision as well as students’ academic success. Since December 2007, Americans have been experiencing a …
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Biracial/Multiracial Student Perceptions of Student Academic Support Services at a Predominantly White Public Institution
… students, particularly as it pertains to student academic success at predominantly white institutions (PWI). The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of biracial/multiracial college students regarding student academic support services at one PWI. In order to address barriers to …
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The Effects Of An Academic Support Services Unit On The Grade Point Average For Students Admitted On Probation
… effects, if any, the programs available from an Academic Support Services unit of a small, private, liberal arts college might have on the grade point averages of students admitted on probation over two major semesters. The assumption was that the students who utilized the services of the …
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A study of head coaches' attitudes regarding academic support services for student athletes in the New Jersey Athletic Conference
… Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) regarding the academic support services provided to student athletes. Of related interest was whether the coaches found a need for these services to be provided by the athletic department. Seventy-five head coaches in the NJAC completed the survey to evaluate the …
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The comparison of social and academic support services for regular and specially admitted African American females at a predominantly white institution
… purposes of this study were to (a) compare the academic and social support services provided to regularly admitted African American females with specially admitted African American females all of whom attend a predominantly white institution, and (b) determine how responsive the predominantly …
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Perception of the Impact of Freshmen Academic Involvement Activities, and Use of Academic Support Services on Academic Performance - (A Case Study of Virginia Tech Second Year Engineering Students): Implications for Counseling
This study identifies and discusses the academic activities and support services that second-year-engineering students perceived as having impacted their freshman year academic performance. Guided by Astin's (1984) student involvement theory, this investigation involved a total of 34 participants, …
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An Examination of Two-Year College Student-Athletes’ Perceived Engagement in Academic Advising, Supplemental Instruction, and Academic Alert Systems
… limited research exists regarding the lack of academic success of student-athletes at two-year colleges. Drawing upon a student engagement theoretical framework presented by Coates, the purpose of the causal-comparative research study was to examine the differences in perceived usage and impact …
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Student engagement with an academic support center during Covid-19
The challenge to improve academic achievement for community college students has generated concern for decades, with renewed emphasis during the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020-2021, known as Covid-19 (Roueche, 1968; West & Fabre, 2021). National and local initiatives for student success have been …
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A study of retention among scholarship football players in the Atlantic Coast Conference
… as each player’s career maturity, their use of academic support services, and institutional characteristics were included in the model. Astin’s Involvement Theory, Spady’s Dropout Prediction Model, and Tinto’s Integration Theory served as anchors for the study. The assigned respondent from each …
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The relationship between freshmen student retention and use of an online parent portal
… an online Parent Portal to intentionally support the assistance of parents in increasing student success and retention. A stratified random sample of 300 freshman-level students who began during the 2012-2013 academic year was analyzed. Specifically, three separate chi-square tests were …
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SUPPORT SERVICES FOR MAINSTREAM DEAF COLLEGE STUDENT WRITERS: THREE INSTITUTIONAL CASE STUDIES
… is meant to foreground future research regarding support services for deaf college student writers, I set out to find how college institutions are serving deaf student writers through academic support services by designing three institutional case studies. The first goal of this project was to …
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An impact evaluation of the Dr. Harley E. Flack Male Mentoring Program at Rowan University
… the attitudes of the subjects toward the academic support services provided by the program, and the impact on academic achievement and social development. The interview schedule solicited information from the past and current directors/coordinators about the barriers and obstacles, …
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An impact evaluation of the Ujima Female Mentoring Program at Rowan University
… attitudes of the subjects toward the academic support services provided by Ujima, and the impact on academic achievement and social development of female members. The interviews solicited information from the current students, faculty, and staff members about various aspects of the …
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The Association Between Learning Styles and Academic Difficulty
… style and the occurrence and severity of academic difficulty. Learning style was put into four groups based upon learning-type theory; sensing-thinking, intuitive-thinking, sensing-feeling, and intuitive feeling. Thirty third and fourth grade students from a public elementary school in …
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Disparities in College Graduation Rates for African American and Latinx Students at a Small Midwestern College: A Case Study
… and systems that might hinder or facilitate academic success and therefore the achievement of graduation. A data analysis spiral was used to produce three themes that addressed the question, how does the College understand the disproportionality of the graduation rates at the institution? The …
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What are the Non-Academic Needs of Distance Learners?
… there is little information about the non-academic support services that universities can and should provide for distance students. This study addresses that gap in the literature by exploring the non-academic needs of distance learners. Students and faculty members involved with distance …
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College Transition Experiences of Students with Mental Illness
… under the topics of individual characteristics, academic and social transition, and institutional differences. Findings revealed that these first year students with mental illness had many of the same developmental and transition experiences and challenges as their peers. However, their …
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Racial identity development of African American students during their first semester at a research University
… at the study institution during the 2009-2010 academic year. The Cross Social Attitude Scale (CSAS) and the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity (MIBI) were administered to the same students at the beginning of the fall semester 2009 and at the beginning of the spring semester 2010. …
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Leadership paradigms informing the ways school administrators work with Somali immigrant students: case studies of two high schools in an urban school district
… especially programs that include mentoring and academic support services. It is also vital to make school programs inclusive.
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