"It just feels like I'm a kid back home, with dinner made for me and the snack cabinet full": College Students' Reflections on Food-related Experiences During the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 113 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Jessica K. Nigg ◽  
Rachel Vollmer ◽  
Teresa Drake
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Food Habits ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Family And Consumer Sciences ◽  
Nutrition Knowledge ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Consumer Sciences

The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced many aspects of life and wellbeing. Eating behaviors and food habits among college students—many leaving campus and returning home mid-semester—were of particular interest for this qualitative study. Reflections from 33 students across 3 courses were analyzed using content analysis. Five major themes emerged from the data: diet changes, minimizing risk, responsibility, silver linings, and food and nutrition knowledge and skills. Several opportunities for family and consumer sciences (FCS) educators and professionals exist to help individuals and families through COVID-19 or to promote FCS classes on college campuses.

Eating behaviors and nutrition knowledge in female college athletes

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina C. Tortolani ◽  
Debra L. Franko ◽  
Ashley McCray ◽  
Emma Zoloth
Keyword(s):  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
College Athletes ◽  
Nutrition Knowledge ◽  
Female College ◽  
Female College Athletes

The (Mis)Uses of Race in Research on College Students: A Systematic Review

JCSCORE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-41
Author(s):  
Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Higher Education Journals ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Race has been one of the most controversial subjects studied by scholars across a wide range of disciplines as they debate whether races actually exist and whether race matters in determining life, social, and educational outcomes. Missing from the literature are investigations into various ways race gets applied in research, especially in higher education and student affairs. This review explores how scholars use race in their framing, operationalizing, and interpreting of research on college students. Through a systematic content analysis of three higher education journals over five years, this review elucidates scholars’ varied racial applications as well as potential implicit and explicit messages about race being sent by those applications and inconsistencies within articles. By better understanding how race is used in higher education and student affairs research, scholars can be more purposeful in their applications to reduce problematic messages about the essentialist nature of race and deficit framing of certain racial groups.

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