Chapter 2 Assisting Student Veterans with Hidden Wounds: Evaluating Student Support in US Higher Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 29-45
Author(s):  
Christopher Linski
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Support ◽  
Student Veterans

From Start to Finish: What Factors Inhibit Student Veterans Completion?

2020 ◽  
pp. 152102512093511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverly A. Wagner ◽  
Roxanne N. Long
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Degree Completion ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Student Support Services ◽  
Student Support ◽  
Student Veterans ◽  
College Retention ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Gi Bill

Student veterans experience unique challenges when returning to higher education. While the Post-9/11 GI bill creates an easier pathway for veterans, student veterans often face multiple impediments to degree completion. Using the Veterans Supplement of the Current Population Survey, we conducted a logistic regression of 4,887 veterans that predicts college retention measured by bachelor’s degree completion using six study variables of physical, sensory, and mental challenges (concentration, hearing, eyesight, walking, dressing, and going out). We conclude only difficulty hearing and walking significantly decreased the odds of bachelor’s degree completion. Recommendations for campus-student-support services are explored.

scholarly journals Integrated and Comprehensive Student Support Programs Aimed at Historically Underserved Students: Creating a Unified Community of Support

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-84
Author(s):  
Adrianna Kezar ◽  
Elizabeth Holcombe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Underrepresented Students ◽  
Student Support ◽  
The United States ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Campus Community ◽  
Underserved Students ◽  
Integrated Programs ◽  
Community Of Support ◽  
Integrated Program

AbstractWhile numerous support programs have evolved to support underrepresented students in higher education, these programs are often disconnected from the curriculum and only target one area of student need. Emerging research indicates that integrated programs which combine multiple curricular and co-curricular supports may be a more effective way to support historically underserved students. In this article, we report on one such integrated program in the United States,CSU STEMCollaboratives. We describe how integrated programs benefit students as well as the broader campus community by creating a unified community of support that fosters collaboration and connection.

scholarly journals Students’ Perceptions of higher education in Sāmoa: Finagalo fa’aalia o alo ma fanau a’oa’oina ile Iunivesetē Aoao o Sāmoa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rosa Filoi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Student Support ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Student Resilience ◽  
National University ◽  
Socially Responsive

<p>This thesis evaluates and analyses Sāmoan student perceptions of higher education in Sāmoa. This work offers an insider’s account of Sāmoan education in particular, focussing on current students belonging to the National University of Sāmoa (NUS). A Pasifika and Sociological framework was used in this study, employing Pasifika research methods of talanoa and aspects of Fa’afaletui. Nineteen NUS students and one student support staff were interviewed for this study. This thesis is not focussed on exploring linear pathways instead it focusses on student resilience in prioritizing their education. Thus, important of this work is to inform the National University of Sāmoa of their students’ needs and the challenges they face in order to provide appropriate support that are culturally and socially responsive to a Sāmoan student’s worldview.</p>

scholarly journals From War Zones to Classrooms

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Student Veterans ◽  
War Zones ◽  
The Way

Student-veterans are a unique subculture across the nation's college and univeristy campuses, and their enrollment numbers are expected to grow to almost two million in the upcoming years following the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (ACE, 2008). It is vital for higher eduation institutions to critically examine the way they serve this important subgroup and redesign their organizational structures and established cultures to better serve this population. This article examines the perspectives of three student-veterans, provides recommendations on improving their transition into higher education, and recognizes some current best practices that support student-veterans.

scholarly journals Student support to enhance student living and learning at a South African University

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South African ◽  
Student Support ◽  
Support Structures ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Support Programme ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
African Higher Education ◽  
South African Higher Education

Quantitative measures show that the higher education system in South Africa remains inefficient and this reality poses significant challenges to all universities. The Faculty of Humanities at the Tshwane University of Technology has added a Student Support Programme to the existing institutional student support structures. In this article, the author reflects on the experiences of student supporters who were appointe in 2014 and 2015 for the enhancement of students' living and learnining to improve success in the Faculty of Huanities. The findings indicated that this programme has indeed improved the academic performance and personal circumstances of hundreds of students. The under-preparedness of students entering South African higher education institutions was highlighted as a major obstacle in academic performances. The majority of students who are supported by this programme experience intense personal and social challenges that are by and large brought about by and as the result of severe financial needs. The student supprters were adamant in their departing statement that much more had to be done over and beyond the general and existing approach and support structures at the Tshwane University of Technology to support these students.Keywords: Student support; Student living; Student learning; Social challenges

Emotional Labor of Instruction Librarians

2021 ◽  
pp. 104-119
Author(s):  
Lorraine Evans ◽  
Karen Sobel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Student Support ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Industrial Psychology ◽  
Academic Faculty ◽  
Teaching Faculty ◽  
Personal Challenges

This chapter consolidates aspects of emotional labor that apply to the work of academic faculty and staff. Perspectives will focus on the instructional work librarians do, in the classroom and through research support, and be applied to teaching faculty and support staff in higher education. The collaborative nature of the work, along with the environment and structural components that both enhance and challenge that work, are examined. The chapter describes risk factors that are common and unique to librarianship, such as academic culture, administrative demands, communication, and student support, applying these concepts more broadly in higher education. Pulling from the research on emotional labor, industrial psychology, and the authors' experience in libraries, strategies are presented that can be used or adapted by individuals and departments. Finally, the chapter discusses tensions inherent in the work of those who choose to perform emotional labor: the love of supporting students and faculty through academic and personal challenges versus the exhaustion that sometimes results.

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