College Student Journal articles from September 2002

College Student Journal archives from September 2002

First semester college students' email to parents: I. frequency and content related to parenting style.
September 1, 2002... In a study of 48 college freshmen with email capability to parents, it was found that students made an average of 6.03 email contacts weekly with parents. Email increased during stressful periods, and women were somewhat more likely to use...

Publish that paper--but where? Faculty knowledge and perceptions of undergraduate publications.
September 1, 2002... Faculty may encourage undergraduates to publish their original research, and several journals targets for students have been created. However, little is known about faculty familiarity and perceptions of these periodicals. In Study 1, Psi Chi...

Effect of gender and work experience on importance of job characteristics when considering job offers.
September 1, 2002... This research investigated gender and work experience differences in the importance of job characteristics. Ratings of eight job facets, representing 48 characteristics, were provided by 102 seniors and 504 alumni from a mid-sized, Midwestern...

Credit card debt on college campuses: causes, consequences, and solutions.
September 1, 2002... Credit card debt is a burgeoning problem on campuses. Although most students handle credit well, a significant minority get into debt. Causes include beliefs about future earnings, debt attitudes and financial knowledge. Many students have not...

Absence makes the heart grow fonder?: long distance dating relationships among college students.
September 1, 2002... Four hundred thirty-eight never married undergraduates at a large southeastern university completed a 25 item questionnaire designed to assess their experience with long distance dating relationships in regard to their belief in the adage "out...

Career opportunities in sport and exercise among college students.
September 1, 2002... The purpose of the present article is to provide college students and higher education professionals with information related to careers in sport and exercise. Specifically, the fields of sport/leisure studies, exercise science, and educational...

A student's creditability and personal development are essential elements for college success.
September 1, 2002... The study examines change in relation to the personal development and creditability of students as they progress through a college in Tennessee. It is suggested as a model for all colleges to insure that personal development and creditability...

Does early participation in undergraduate research benefit social science and humanities students?
September 1, 2002... Despite recent interest in the impact of undergraduate research on student development, there has not been much work done on the relationship between participation in undergraduate research and the development of social science and humanities...

An early distance learning success story: the teacher leader program.
September 1, 2002... This study revisits an earlier investigation of a successful graduate education program called the Teacher Leader Program (Kisch, Harper, & Messner, 1993). It has implications for the planning, development and delivery of graduate education...

Classroom strategies for identifying and helping college students at risk for academic failure.
September 1, 2002... The transition from high school to college is difficult for many students. In 1999, the dropout rate for the freshman to sophomore year in public four year colleges and universities was 33.3% (ACT: Newsroom: News Release: National College...

Designing the community college curriculum.
September 1, 2002... The community college curriculum needs to be determined carefully in terms of instructional objectives for student achievement. These relevant ends should emphasize vital knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Learning opportunities need to be...

Heterosexism and homophobia among college students.
September 1, 2002... This paper distinguishes between heterosexism and homophobia. Focusing on homophobia, the importance of conducting research with respect to reducing homophobia of lesbians and gay males among heterosexual college students is considered....

The commercialization of post secondary education: a future scenario.
September 1, 2002... The authors suggest that public post secondary education in numerous decades in the future may need to go to major private retail corporations for monies to continue operations and expand. This process, we believe, will be gradual and fraught...

College students perceptions of social support from grandmothers and stepgrandmothers.
September 1, 2002... The role of grandmothers and stepgrandmothers as social support providers was examined. Using the Inventory of Socially Supportive Behaviors a sample of 106 college students evaluated 72 grandmothers and 34 stepgrandmothers. Analysis of...

Male and female college students' learning styles differ: an opportunity for instructional diversification.
September 1, 2002... Several extant studies have demonstrated that females and males learn differently. In general, the studies on males' and females' learning differences have concluded that more females are relational learners, whereas more males are independent...

Colleges students' attitudes toward smoking.
September 1, 2002... The study of college students' attitudes toward smoking was conducted among the students attending a northwest Florida university. The sample consisted of one-tenth (810) of the student population during the spring term with the subjects being...

Asian-American students' use of a university student-affairs office.
September 1, 2002... Asian-American students could benefit from the support provided by student affairs offices that serve ethnic minorities, but they might eschew the help if they accept the stereotype of the "model student". We surveyed Asian-American students on...

Factors determining success in a graduate business program.
September 1, 2002... This study uses correlation and regression techniques to determine which variables are most closely related to the academic success of the recent graduates of a college's MBA program. The factors traditionally used by the MBA program as the...

Developing purpose in college: differences between freshmen and seniors *.
September 1, 2002... In the present study, 85 students from a large southeastern university completed the Iowa Vocational Purpose Inventory to determine if significant differences existed between freshmen and seniors on the development of vocational purpose in...

Korean college students' time allocation: sociocultural implications for career development and gender role.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The following Table and Graphs were omitted from the article that appeared in Volume 36, June 2002, Number 2. Table 1. Correlation Coefficients Between Daily Activities and Characteristics of Gender and Year in School ...