REACHING HIGHER: UNDERSTANDING STUDENT DEVELOPMENT AND DEPARTURE

Since its foundation, post-secondary institutions have demonstrated a concern to the high rates of student departure which have led to a proliferation of studies focused on college students’ interest and retention in the 1970s (ASTIN, 1975; COPE e HANNAH, 1975; LENNING, 1978; TINTO, 1975). Concentrating on the institutions’ role, this study aims at—in a historical perspective—finding out: (i) how have institutions been viewing student interest and attrition and how (and if) they have been acting upon it, and (ii) if student academic failure has been in any way seen as related to it. It was observed that is through programs of academic and student leadership and discussion panels that students are given the opportunity to engage in the college community—learning with and from their peers.

Characteristics of Academic Advising That Contribute to Racial and Ethnic Minority Student Success at Predominantly White Institutions

Racial and ethnic minority student departure continues to be a major concern for higher education researchers, policy makers, and practitioners. We explore the role that academic advisors play in facilitating success among students of color at predominantly White institutions that have demonstrated effectiveness at generating ethnic minority success. Three themes emerged from the findings and underscore the characteristics of academic advising that contribute to that success. First, participants noted the importance of advisors who humanized the practice of academic advising. Second, they highlighted the impact of those who adopted a multifaceted approach to advising. Finally, participants emphasized the importance of proactive academic advising. Implications for academic advising practices are discussed.

Monitoring Departure to Schools in Basic School Students Using Arduino Based on Android

Student departure monitoring is an Android-based app used to monitor student departure to school. This system runs on parent smartphones so parents can see the existence of students and the app will give a message if the student out of the route path that has been set. Arduino used is arduino uno nano type. Arduino programmed using C language, to monitor the existence of students also required some components such as GSM Module and GPS Module. In testing the user application can monitor the existence of the students through the mobile phone that has been installed the application, before monitoring the departure of parents students are required to enter data coordinates home, coordinate data route and data coordinates of schools entered manually. To get the coordinate data the parent can take it through google Maps. To avoid failure in the use of remote control applications should use Android smartphone version 4.1 Jelly bean to version 6.0 Marshmallow. In the experiments this application can run smoothly with the Android version 4.1 to Android version 6.0 and the results of the questionnaire given to the 30 respondents with 9 questions 75.77% results obtained using Likert-scale calculations, which results obtained a good assessment interval.