scholarly journals The ‘Nothing But’

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-292
Author(s):  
Katie Aubrecht
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Student Services ◽  
Hidden Curriculum ◽  
University Student ◽  
University System ◽  
Student Service ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Professional Perspectives ◽  
The University

This paper shares findings from a qualitative study on university student mental health and illness that included digitally recorded interviews with university student services and programs professionals and staff at a Canadian university. Transcripts were thematically coded and analyzed using a disability studies informed interpretive sociological approach. Four key themes emerged: dwelling with disclosure, being open to the ‘nothing but’, understanding oneself as ‘not a counselor’, and coming to terms with the reality that under neoliberalism ‘we all fall’ Two key insights also emerged from the analysis: 1) Access to university-based programs and services is shaped by assumptions about productivity and reputation; 2) Psychiatric knowledge and expertise influences and informs how university student services staff understand and enact their roles within the university system. This paper considers how university-wide productivity-oriented psy-knowledge and practices organize and authorize what one participant described as a ‘hidden curriculum’ of academic success. This hidden curriculum manifests in the form of a referral-based resiliency (govern)mentality in university student service provision. It closes with a reflection on the transformative potential of adopting a “critically maladaptive” (McLaren, 2010, p. 504) approach that is attentive to alterity in university-based student services professional perspectives which appears in the form of a thoughtful “but…”.

scholarly journals Collaboration to serve military-affiliated students: A textbooks reserves project at the University of Memphis

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (7) ◽  
pp. 350
Author(s):  
Rachel Scott ◽  
Sydnie Roberts ◽  
Shelia Gaines
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Student Services ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
University Of Memphis ◽  
Military Student ◽  
The University

Military-affiliated students are a diverse campus constituency and may encounter a number of obstacles to their academic success. At the University of Memphis (UM), the Veteran and Military Student Services (VMSS) center provides a wide-ranging suite of services to engage and support military-affiliated students. This article describes how two UM departments, the University Libraries and VMSS, collaborated to facilitate the discovery and circulation of an existing collection of textbooks for military-affiliated students.

scholarly journals Knowledge, Use, and Perceived Value of University Student Services

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 613-628
Author(s):  
Cody J. Perry ◽  
David Lausch ◽  
Courtney A McKim ◽  
Jennifer Weatherford
Keyword(s):  
Student Services ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Student ◽  
Knowledge Use ◽  
Domestic Students ◽  
Land Grant University ◽  
Student Service ◽  
One Step ◽  
Retention And Graduation Rates

Universities throughout the United States struggle with fiscal issues that can be improved by greater retention and graduation rates. One step often taken is to cut student service spending, which hurts students’ ability to finish a degree. While some have advocated for greater spending in student services, we contend that current services may suffice. Since many students do not understand the services available, many do not take advantage of university offerings. This study looks at differences in perceptions between international and domestic students concerning awareness, use, and value of services available at a western U.S. land-grant university. We found many students, both international and domestic, are not aware of available programs, which correlates to less use and perceived value of these services and programs.

PERSONALITY AND ACADEMIC PRODUCTIVITY IN THE UNIVERSITY STUDENT

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Marín Sánchez ◽  
Eduardo Infante Rejano ◽  
Yolanda Troyano Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Academic Failure ◽  
University Student ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Personality Profile ◽  
The University ◽  
Interpersonal Values ◽  
Working Hypotheses

This study describes the personality characteristics of the failing university student at the University of Seville. One hundred and three students with a mean age of 21 years were evaluated using the 16 PF questionnaire. The personality profile was completed by application of the Survey of Interpersonal Values (SIV), including an intelligence evaluation using the WAIS scale of intelligence. The results support the majority of previous studies which relate certain personality traits to academic failure (Lathey, 1991; Weiss, Lotan, Kedar & Ben-Shakhar, 1988). Students who are failing in their courses scored significantly higher in neurosis and extraversion than did their population group. The data encourage consideration of the existence of other personality traits which limit academic success; among these are psychoticism, poor leadership, strong nonconformity and low generosity. The final discussion points up the need to introduce more precise lines of investigation and the formulation of new working hypotheses.

scholarly journals Generazione Erasmus?

2008 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
University System ◽  
Inner Experiences ◽  
Community Initiatives ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Erasmus Programme ◽  
The University

The Erasmus programme is one of the outstanding Community initiatives, even if it is spoken little of outside the world of the university. This book, one of the first devoted to the subject, analyses the virtuous effects that the programme has had on the university system, the geography of student flows, and the motivations and propositions of those who have taken part in it. The reports of the students indicate the Erasmus as a 'bubble of experience' and the book explores these inner experiences through a sociological approach, illustrating the vast potential in terms of the moulding of a 'homo novus Europaeus'. The data gathered prompt a reflection on the redefinition of the role of the student when he or she directly experiences the comparison with a context different and distant from that of origin, to which he or she is nevertheless destined to return. From this perspective, the Erasmus experience assumes the significance of a sort of temporary upheaval of status open to forms of 'experimentation of identity'.

Doctoral Training of Psychology Students in France

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Roland-Lévy
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Doctoral Training ◽  
University System ◽  
The Third ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Psychology Doctoral ◽  
Phd Programs ◽  
Phd Program

Abstract: The aim of doctoral programs in psychology is to help students become competent psychologists, capable of conducting research and of finding suitable employment. Starting with a brief description of the basic organization of the French university system, this paper presents an overview of how the psychology doctoral training is organized in France. Since October 2000, the requisites and the training of PhD students are the same in all French universities, but what now differs is the openness to other disciplines according to the size and location of the university. Three main groups of doctoral programs are distinguished in this paper. The first group refers to small universities in which the Doctoral Schools are constructed around multidisciplinary seminars that combine various themes, sometimes rather distant from psychology. The second group covers larger universities, with a PhD program that includes psychology as well as other social sciences. The third group contains a few major universities that have doctoral programs that are clearly centered on psychology (clinical, social, and/or cognitive psychology). These descriptions are followed by comments on how PhD programs are presently structured and organized. In the third section, I suggest some concrete ways of improving this doctoral training in order to give French psychologists a more European dimension.

Hindrance to the Integration of e-learning Adoption in Nigerian Universities

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Abasiama G. Akpan ◽  
Chris Eriye Tralagba
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
University Education ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
University System ◽  
Electronic Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Nigerian University ◽  
The University

Electronic learning or online learning is a part of recent education which is dramatically used in universities all over the world. As well as the use and integration of e-learning is at the crucial stage in all developing countries. It is the most significant part of education that enhances and improves the educational system. This paper is to examine the hindrances that influence e-learning in Nigerian university system. In order to have an inclusive research, a case study research was performed in Evangel University, Akaeze, southeast of Nigeria. The paper demonstrates similar hindrances on country side. This research is a blend of questionnaires and interviews, the questionnaires was distributed to lecturers and an interview was conducted with management and information technology unit. Research had shown the use of e-learning in university education which has influenced effectively and efficiently the education system and that the University education in Nigeria is at the crucial stage of e-learning. Hence, some of the hindrances are avoiding unbeaten integration of e-learning. The aim of this research is to unravel the barriers that impede the integration of e-learning in universities in Nigeria. Nevertheless, e-learning has modified the teaching and learning approach but integration is faced with many challenges in Nigerian University.

Factors for academic success in the integration of MOOCs in the university classroom

2017 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos CASTAÑO-GARRIDO ◽  
◽  
Urtza GARAY ◽  
Inmaculada MAIZ ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
The University

The Indian University in a Comparative Perspective

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.R. Madhava Menon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
University System ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The purpose of looking at Indian universities in a comparative perspective is obviously to locate it among higher education institutions across the world and to identify its strengths and weaknesses in the advancement of learning and research. In doing so, one can discern the directions for reform in order to put the university system in a competitive advantage for an emerging knowledge society. This chapter looks at the current state of universities in India and highlights the initiatives under way for change and proposes required policy changes.

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