Description
Historically, institutions of higher education focused their efforts on programs and services to support traditional students' integration (i.e., the eighteen year old who enrolls in college immediately after graduating from high school) into the college environment. Integration into the university environment contributes to student retention. Underrepresented students, specifically community college transfer students, are left out of the retention planning process. With the increase of transfer students transitioning to four-year universities, this study explored transfer students' integration experience within their initial six weeks of attendance at a receiving institution. This action research study implemented an E-Mentoring Program utilizing the social media platform, Facebook. Results from the mixed-methods study provided evidence that classroom connection interwoven with social rapport with peers, cognizance of new environment, and institutional and peer resources matter for integration within the first six weeks at HUC (a pseudonym). The information gained will be used to inform higher education administrators, student affairs practitioners, faculty, and staff as they develop relevant services, programs, and practices that intentionally support transfer students' integration.
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Title
- Transfer students' integration experiences: a study of their initial six weeks at a receiving institution
Contributors
- Aska, Cassandra (Author)
- Puckett, Kathleen (Thesis advisor)
- Kleinsasser, Robert (Committee member)
- Cook, Kevin (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2015
Subjects
- Education (Higher)
- E-Mentoring
- integration
- Retention
- Transfer students
- Transfer students--Services for--United States.
- Transfer students
- Community college students--Services for--Computer networks--United States.
- Community college students
- Mentoring in education--Computer networks--United States.
- Mentoring in education
- Professional learning communities--Computer networks--United States.
- Professional learning communities
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Note
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thesisPartial requirement for: Ed. D., Arizona State University, 2015
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bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 81-84)
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Field of study: Educational leadership and policy studies
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Statement of Responsibility
by Cassandra Aska