BACKGROUND About 1 million people worldwide commit suicide each year, and college students with suicidal ideation are at high risk of suicide. The prevalence of suicidal ideation in college students has been estimated extensively, but quantitative syntheses of overall prevalence are scarce, especially in China. Accurate estimates of prevalence are important for making public policy. In this pap...

Title of Document: THE EFFECT OF LIVING-LEARNING PROGRAM PARTICIPATION ON COLLEGE STUDENTS’ MENTAL HEALTH John E. Fink, Master of Arts, 2012 Directed By: Dr. Mary L. Hummel, Affiliate Faculty Member Department of Counseling and Personnel Services This thesis used Astin’s (1993) I-E-O framework to explore how participation in a living-learning program as well as other college environments affect...

Over recent years, socio-political discourse has been full of language aimed at reaching gender equality. This is a complex goal that should address the underlying bases inequality—gender stereotypes continue to legitimize unequal consideration and treatment. It also reality universities are not exempt from. The objective this study was analyze university students’ stereotyped beliefs look diff...

BACKGROUND Although mental disorders are significant predictors of educational attainment throughout the entire educational career, most research on mental disorders among students has focused on the primary and secondary school years. METHOD The World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys were used to examine the associations of mental disorders with college entry and attrition by ...

Background Medical students at the University of Virginia (UVA) are mentored and learn within the framework of a four college learning community. Uniquely, these learning communities are used to organize the third-year clerkship rotations. Methods Students were surveyed after their first pre-clinical year and after their clerkship year to determine what the effect of the learning community was ...

In order to evaluate the current effectiveness of nutrition and food safety education on the college taekwondo students in China, we analysed the difference of food knowledge, attitudes and practices among the Chinese college taekwondo students on the basis of local fraction algorithm who had or had not have food nutrition and safety education, in order to examine the necessarily of the provisi...

Social class disparities in higher education between working-class students (i.e., students who are low income and/or do not have parents with four-year college degrees) and middle-class students (i.e., students who are high income and/or have at least one parent with a four year-degree) are on the rise. There is an urgent need for interventions, or changes to universities’ ideas and practices,...

Melissa Roderick, Jenny Nagaoka, and Vanessa Coca focus on the importance of improving college access and readiness for low-income and minority students in urban high schools. They stress the aspirations-attainment gap: although the college aspirations of all U.S. high school students, regardless of race, ethnicity, and family income, have increased dramatically over the past several decades, s...

EDUCATIONAL FUTURE ORIENTATION OF MIDDLE SCHOOL LATINO STUDENTS by Alonso Romero The lack of educational attainment among Latino youth, as evidenced by high school dropout rates, is a growing and costly problem that affects not only Latinos but society as a whole. Using a sample of 139 middle school Latino students, primarily of Mexican descendant, the current study used cluster analysis to ide...

This study explores graduate students’ expectations regarding website design in higher education. Focus group discussions and the Kano method are used to improve the college website experience of Master of Business Administration students. Student survey results (n = 110) suggest 23 features describing an ideal college website. Results guide college website design according to three need-based ...